I keep going for AA targets, but they just despawn, then respawn somewhere else or even in the same spot a few seconds later, and then immediately kill me because I’m too close or stuck in a bad position.
I’ve been trying to use the A-10 and fly low to take them out, but the AGM-65s feel completely useless. They won’t lock onto anything that’s moving, and most of them just get shot down instantly. I end up wasting like six Mavericks on a single Osa that doesn’t even have its radar turned on.
Meanwhile in GRB, shooting down incoming missiles with older AA is way harder, but here these AA units are just doing it optically like it’s nothing.
It feels horrible. As I said before, American is nearly impossible to play now unless you have premiums - and after this I’M NOT IN A MOOD TO GIVE GAIJIN ANY PENNY WHATSOEVER.
Default planes have unusable weapons; AI SPAAGs shoot through trees without issue but you can’t shoot back because your weapons explode with the slightest brush of leaves; the OSAs and FlaRaks are impossible to evade at low altitude; the HAWKS and BUKS aim through and shoot over mountains; and on top of that they upped the requirements for nukes to the point that the fifteen minutes to get one yesterday has become a 30 minute painful grind today, even more with the points for air kills being reduced into the ground.
Shooting ARMS at missile sites is useless because they’re shot down before they can hit; taking guided bombs is useless because you have to climb and you’re shot down before you can drop - or they blow up with you when you’re hit if you actually manage to drop them; taking along guided missiles is useless because they get shot down the moment you launch them; and taking unguided rockets is useless because you don’t live long enough to get near targets.
I’m having every difficulty keeping my language proper because internally I’m calling each and every dev names that would put Archibald Haddock to shame and would land me with a thousand-year ban if I said it out loud.
Run the A-7E with 4x AGM-88A’s for SEAD, then come back with the A-10 for ground targets once you’ve isolated a group, rinse and repeat. Russians have it much easier cuz their best SEAD aircraft doubles as their best strike one too.
I mean, they ARE trying, thats what this whole event is. Mistakes and bugs occur when you’re pushing an 12+ y/o game engine way past what it was ever made to do…
They increased point gain for ground attack, so clearly they’re trying to get players to suicide down the middle less and play the actual event a little more
This buffed AA is actually insane, HAWKs went from being absolute trash to wiping even multipathing targets. Roland aimbots still have 10 km death sphere and can shit missiles every 2 sec so i had to use 2 Kh-29s and 5 Vikhrs to proxy all the missiles and kill one of them. Too bad there are atleast two next to each other so i died right after. SPAA extreme,even worse than it was. A2A kills giving fuck all score now where after 5 kills i didnt even had 350 SP and barely 800 score.
