I am actually wondering why it is not possible to pin certain topics like in the old forum and to merge threads if they are redundant / parallel discussions, also like in the old forum.
Even admitting that most of the posts are almost identical regarding the content - there are a hell of exceptional high quality posts in this and other closed threads dealing with “hot topics” that might vanish into the void if they were just closed and not merged. Seeing the efforts regarding brainpower and invested time by the players this is rather sad.
Imho the forum mods did a fantastic job with pinning and merging similar threads in the past - so why not continuing with this practice? Is the new software not allowing this?
I’m not sure about merging posts, but pinning posts is possible.
The reason why people dont see pinned posts is because you need to look in a specific section to see what posts are pinned. This wouldn’t be bad, but going to a specific section is more difficult to do than just clicking on “game discussion.” Pinned posts also don’t show up when you click on a category.
Separate ground only realistic mode is a must. There is no good reason to not make it. Why should the majority have to adapt to the minority? The mixed realistic mode would have longer wait times, but that only shows how much people hate CAS. CAS is a plague at every BR and in every battle.
Want to play some wall of steel like a T95, T28, Foch or Maus? Too bad, there is a winged rat coming in the first minute of the battle with full bomb load and you didn’t even make it half way to the frontline.
Want to play something unusual like Scorpion, ASU-57 or Type 60? Too bad you’re strafed in the first minute.
Want to play basically anything? Too bad, there is a swarm of rats filling the skies wiothin the first 5 minutes.
Does that sound like fun? I don’t think so.
If you are defending CAS, try to play the Foch or Scorpion and you won’t last 3 battles before snapping your keyboard in half. All of your arguments against this are completely invalid. Everyone can see what GRB has become and there is nothing you can say to defend it.
CAS makes the game even more infuriating and many many times unplayable. Air superiority both in actual wars and in WT is 90% of the victory. It just creates incentive to spawn in aircraft ASAP, thus making ground RB look more like air RB.
Its removal would be praised by literally everyone who wants to actually play ground vehicles in ground RB. Even if I would have to pay to get acess to it, I would do it the second it was avaiable and never play anything else. I’ve been here since 2015 and this plague has only gotten worse, never better.
I think the two are interdependent. IF people would stay and fight with SPAA it COULD change. IF CAS would be less effective people COULD stay.
I still love the idea that planes have to land at the airfield to bring their points home. I get so often revenge bombed by a dive bomber who has no interest in playing CAS. Just revenge and back into a tank.
I played the Wirbelwind for the first time in ages last night.I found I hadn’t even fully modded it.
I found I had such limited ammo in such short bursts that I had enough rounds to just about alert the enemy CAS to my position then nothing to hit them with as they killed me during reload.
I also couldn’t see ,just view of grass and bushes .
I didn’t hit anything.Had more hits with 50 cal on a tank.I can see why players don’t play SPAA in WW2 eras. M24 for Italy is pointless due to lack of ammo.You can’t resupply anywhere so why bother?Why end your own game?
We lack proper flak in the game at WW2 eras as the flak shell provided for the 88 are unusable.Only time i have been killed by AA in a PE8 was the AMX10 ,a futuristic weapon in WW2 settings thrown in from desperation no doubt.
Most WW2 SPAA I play are good BUT 90% are not able to prevent the first bomb run. (and I’m not a good scale for a casual player) And that is a big issue. Furthermore when there are more then 3 planes in the sky it can get pretty ugly. The Wirbelwind is a good plane shredder but only when the enemy has wasted most of his energy and you got a good feeling for the aim. You need a lot of experience. I now run into the problem that I played many SPAA and I like them all but they all need a different aim and it gets hard to adapt. One month ago I was really good with the Ostwind 1 and 2 … now I suck.
Resupply can be tricky in a match when the enemy has cap advantage and you are far away from cap or simply not safe to go there.
Playing SPAA is nothing for fast fun … it needs patience, experience and every mistake is costly. I got to admit that this will not lead to more players playing those.
I had a BP task of killing five enemy vehicles with SPAA. I didn’t attack CAS I just jumped into the French DCA and hit land units it was done in one game.I shoot down more planes in the PE8 or 110.
Another small issue is hitting planes ,watching them crash and not even getting an assist.Hardly encouraging.I do hit CAS with SPAA occasionally ,it is good fun but it is mostly when they are charging at me or come in really close and low.
Somebody suggested ammo resupply at Spawn points which could help with the issue of CAS hitting the spawn.It would at least allow players to leave the spawn area.
And here is a nice example from my last match where you can see that being a good SPAA-player makes only a little difference to the outcome of the match.
(Just wanna mention that I’m not against CAS!)
Your chances on getting the planes in the first run are small. All those planes I shot down lost most of their energy advantage.
For those who are interessted what my 1st tank was … ASU-57 which ended as Leopard 40/70 fastfood.
Last but not least I wanna mention that it was great that almost everybody stayed for at least 3 tanks or more.
IIRC, the rewards for SPAAs were cut few years ago
So you could have great game as SPAA (case above, what you did) and you’d only get fraction of the rewards
I guess the playstyle
You don’t have move that much but you keep slapping planes out of skies
I don’t know really
I do know they were reduced by some percentage
yea but you see the enemy bombed your team out of your game.
doenst matter when you get 8 kills after their dropped all their ordnance and then proceed to kill themselve.
That was my point to show, right. They even came one after the other, I did my alert thing (T-6-1) and tried my best. SPAA is difficult to play and as I learned now the rewards where reduced. I can understand the demand for mode without planes. I would use it only from time to time.
