oh right not like farming 262s on airfields wasn’t a historical tactic done by the Allies and also everyone takes off from their airfields first if you have to land and you are getting strafed this is your issue I am afraid
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Can i see a video of you doing this on a main airfield in a air-rb match between 4.7 and 6.7 br? Obviously in a prop.
Also what can I say, even if this is true buff AAs at low altitude but severely nerf them at higher altitudes.
Also make AA not fire when aircraft are not on ground and especially not when they are outside 1km of the airfield and circling at 500kph at 4000m
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if you want it to be realistic like that then you better be airfield camping in a mosquito, like how it was really done.
this is a simcade video game not DCS if you haven’t realised by the way
The only justifiable nerf I can see to Anti-air effectiveness is a scaling one.
If a team has only 1 plane left, and that plane has stayed within say, 3 km dome around their airfield for longer than 3 minutes, every 30 seconds the airfield AA should lose some accuracy.
This is purely for dealing with people flying back and forth over their airfield without any intent to re-engage.
Distances for the dome can be varied with rank/br, after all 3 km in an early war plane barely making it past 280 km/h in a straight line is a far bigger distance than a turboprop casually climbing at 320 km/h at a 25 degree pitch.
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OBS really doesnt like screencapturing while i play war thunder and I CBA to set up my elgato card and mirror my screen through it. but trust me its easy to pull off in a mk24 spitfire, there’s a reason its my no.2 top vehicle in the game. do it quite often in the LF mk9 too. fly really low, fly fast, free food
It would be better than nothing… still imho there are many more justified nerfs it should receive
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Just send the warthunder replay file
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oh right not like af camping is cancerous to gameplay lmao
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I play a lot of WT, im not going through days of battles to search for instances, you’re free to look through
https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/
i would rather be strafed and go into the next game rather than deal with a guy sitting on his af for more than 15 minutes just because i managed to get into a better position than him
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this would be fixed by having fast ticket bleed if the only guy left is stationary at his airfield when not rearming/repairing. Im for fair play, fight in the air and not when they don’t have any way to manoeuvre or attack
you mostly seem to play high tier jets, this is an issue that’s more frequent at the high end of the prop BRs so from 4.3-7.0, although a supersonic plane can ignore a fair amount of the AA magic 2 missiles if they fly low enough
the guy was just flying in circles around his af just refusing to come out because i have about 1 to 2k more alt than him such a excellent example of gameplay just because i put myself in a better position than him
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just give afs ww2 spaa instead of the cwis systems that slam you in about 5 seconds tops
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In the last 2 years, as explained in topic, I’ve played mostly top tier jet because all the airfield camping, bomber spam and (this is not their fault thought) all the people playing props with “just get 1kill mentality” to grind have turned props from loads of fun to boring for me (and I am not the only one). Most prop players that used to play props a lot 4 years ago either went playing high tier jets or have quit.
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making AA not obliterating you from 5km would be a start.
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would like to see more than just light AAs, a mix of 40mms and 3.7 inch AA would make it more interesting and more punchy, later on have shilkas and magic launchers to defend. a CWIS would certainly stop anyone trying it
circles the airfield like a TRUE pro pilot
anytime I find an airfield camper I dismiss all their stats because they just get 2 ai and circle the airfield the rest of the game and thats how they get their 10KD but 0.3KB, they got those stats the easy way instead of actually fighting
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Increasing airfield campers does not decrease airfield camping.
@HoluhovskyCZ
Players aren’t AI, but keep dehumanizing players all you want.
when did I say that I want to increase airfield campers???
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