I used to play a lot of props until 2 years ago, but the gameplay quality decreased a lot in the last 4 years. Imho the main reason for this decrease is the fact that today there are a lot more players (I would say perhaps even the majority) that play props just to grind jets or to farm SL to play other game modes.
This creates a general decrease in skill in the game (the difference between the average pilot at 5.7 air RB 4 years ago and now is crazy) , which imho would even be fine with me, but the problems start when stuff like bomber and attacker spam (in a 12v12 game having 6 bombers and attackers on your team is an huge disadvantage… looking especially at you ju288c) and airfield camping become extremely prevalent.
To counter this airfield AA should be nerfed and a new pve mode for attackers/bomber be created.
In general more changes are needed to how tech trees are structured, because there are a lot of new players that see props just as something to grind to reach modern jets while at the same time there are the people that enjoyed props that either quit or moved to playing basically only top tier jets (I’m one of those) because the gameplay as become a bit dull (killing planes that are stalling in front of you isn’t fun)
700kph is anything but slow for a prop, it’s near La-7 rip speed lol. Also staying lower won’t increase life span that much longer, at least not in my experience… got any videos to prove that staying low will make you live so much longer that:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDSNeOTTXe4 all good players I can find complain about airfield camping… this is even from 2 years ago when AA was worse than today (already was buffed compared to 2013-2021 thought)
still not quite enough of a deterrant, because I myself will raid rear airfields for free kills quite often, its cheap and unfair. i shouldn’t be able to do it
Another airfield camper begging to airfield camp without being shot at.
Short answer: No.
If you want to airfield camp, you might find a few custom battles.
Called it. You just want to airfield camp.
That’s why you’re demanding more airfield camping? To stick it to the good players…
Jealous?
You know what I do each time I find an airfield camper? I dismiss all their stats cause they got those stats the easy way instead of actually fighting.
No, i want to go back to having less kills but having fun. I went from dying to good players after a good dogfight 4 years ago to either get 3-4-5-6-7 kills per game and dying from either 5v1 because half of my team was made from planes de facto useless to win the match (can’t remember last time i won a match because bombers destroyed the enemy’s AF), or dying because someone decided circling around his airfield for 10 minutes is fun
