I feel like you’re missing the actual problem here. The issue isnt bombing itself or even taking away A2A potential but having no A2A potential in the first place and refusing to effectively employ your weapons besides dumb bombing the bases.
I have no issues scoring 2-3 kills with only 4 Python 3 on my F-16A Netz while bombing in the same match and I’m not afraid to abandon my bombing mission if the situation requires. Does that really make me hurt my team?
Now take F-4S player for example that takes bombs alongside his 8 missiles. Guy bombs the base or keeps chasing for other bases or ground targets (because he didnt manage to drop before others) then either dies because he’s incapable of anything else or does nothing for the rest of the match.
As I said bombing itself isnt the problem. Its the mindset
Bombing is not the problem, it’s fighters bombing. F-111s and Tornados are fine to have on your team but MiG-23MLs carrying napalm and 2 R-24s are usually damn near useless.
If someone can’t fight they will bring bombs, if they can’t fight they can’t defend themselves while bombing they are useless to their team. Thats what I’m trying to get at. You’re not useless if you can generate kills, but if you have to resort to base bombing in a MiG-21 you would be useless anyways.
I mean yes jets such as mig23 or mig21 shouldn’t be bombing since they arent meant for multirole and taking 1-base loadout is equal to losing over half if not all missiles which are their main strength in air combat. F16, f15 or f4 dont loose much of their a2a potential while carrying bombs but the problem is mindset as I said before which you just cant overcome with missiles.
Why is the middle-tier grind so difficult? It makes no sense to me that I need 200k SL a tank and I get around 10-20k a game. I have about 6 tanks unlocked waiting to be purchased, but the economy feels so bad that I just want to give up.
A hot take of mine has been that the A-10 and Su-25 have ruined the balance of all jet BRs from 7.0 to 10.7. They should not have been added in their current state.
They forced the flareless supersonics down, which then forced the MiG-15s/Sabres down, which now means that they can meet Me-262s. Flareless supersonics are a massive pain to play if they are uptiered (nearly guaranteed btw) simply because half the stuff they face can very easily kill them.
Does anyone else have dreams where they operate a vehicle and it suddenly shrinks around you?
Like, one moment I am the pilot of a fighter Jet racing down the runway to take off, then it shrinks until I am jogging on foot while having to press my now toy sized jet against my butt so it doesn’t fall to the ground.
URGHHH just got my wing shot off by a greedy teammate who still failed to get the kill. So frustrating. Wish they’d just disable it as clearly it doesn’t deter such clowns in Air RB.
I quit the game three months ago. Today I decided to try to remember how to play it.
unsuccessfully…
p.s.
nothing has changed in these three months, no one has asked to be “friends” hehe, for some reason there are no letters from caslovers accusing them of cheating. There is nothing new in the game itself - planes without wings still fly brazenly. But the “new” old map is beautiful.
