Each match I’ve played as NATO has been a constant struggle for survival as Buks are extremely oppressive by being able to launch on me AS I"M TAKING OFF with infinite ammo. Knocking them out is not worth the time and effort as there’s minimal chance a full salvo of any muntion type will make it to target. Not to mention if you do manage to somehow kill one and also somehow make it back to base, it’ll already have respawned. This constant state of notching and hyperdefensive gameplay allows enemy air superiority fighters to maintain altitude unimpeded right over airfields (WHAT IS NATO AA EVEN DOING) and launch fox 3s in the best conditions one can ask for.
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Gaijin royally screwed that Mode up once more
Can’t even take off as NATO without getting 3 different Launch Warnings on RWR
The whole point of SEAD against these types of spaa its pointless without ECM and coordinates.
Did someone by chance saw a F-15 flying at 60 meters from the ground in the Iran war to drop a JDAM on a spaa?? Ofc not because thats not how it works.
IRL once ypu spot an anti air emplacement, you just put the coordinates in the JDAM and drop it as far as possible, not like rn literally trying to have visual on target to drop it.
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This mode has a lot of potential, but currently, it’s a complete mess. AA is way too overpowered, and the BUK outperforms everything else. All SPAAs track you even without line of sight, and they intercept absolutely everything you throw at them—the 2S6 can even intercept Aster 30s. Between the constant missile spam and RWR warnings, you spend all your time just defending, and that’s pretty much all you can do. The economy is also terrible: even if you have a great match, you barely get any SL or RP. In fact, you lose so much SL that it’s basically a money sink. On top of that, the UI is bugged sometimes, and SPICE bombs don’t do anything—I dropped three on a T-80 and only got ‘hits’."
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At this point I am completely convinced its purposeful and malicious self sabotage so they can say “See? No one wants this mode, back to your grindy default modes!”. My evidence? Look at the sad sorry state SIM battles have been for the longest time. They DO NOT want anyone playing that mode because its fun and fun doesn’t sell golden eagles and premiums. Nuclear Escalation is in the same boat, too much potential for fun which means less suffering and thus less chance of a player rage buying GE or a premium to skip grind.
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Or this is to justify them selling many more $70 premium with electric countermeasure equipment in the future.
"Hey, you player complained about this being too hard, here’s a vehicle behind pay wall that will stomp all AAs ! "
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