Spawning on the airfield can be useful if you know there is high-tier enemy SPAA up, or if you only have dumb munitions. It has its uses, and it being the default only slows you down by 2 seconds.
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It’s really only an issue the first few times you encounter it. Otherwise, it’s just a simple click to select air spawn.
On Pradesh I’ve had issues of crashing into a mountain as it spawns me in the clouds right behind Mount Everest.
And it does slow down CAS, which depending on the BR isn’t a bad thing.
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It should be the ONLY way for CAS to spawn in GRB.
For all aircraft. Fixed wings and Rotaries.
Simple as.
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Airspawn is now only like 5k ft 11.7+, so even at toptier the airfield is useless.
This isn’t a matter of balance, it’s just a really annoying feature that Gajin probably knew it a really dumb feature b4 they added it.
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Only remove it in air RB, but an AF spawn should be the default in ground RB in my opinion.
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I dont necessarily mind the idea. but the “bad weather” from the few matches ive done of late was pretty good weather from what I could see. I was expecting to see Stormy weather or low level fog or something anytime it did a forced AF spawn, instead it was blue skies and a little bit of cloud. Just a little cloud wouldnt change a thing.
Though it is also wierd that “bad weather” forces the AF spawn in teh first place. If anything “bad weather” would ground aircraft on the runway, and air support would need to be provided by an aircraft taking off from another AF (I personally consider “Air spawn” as essentially this, an aircraft entering the airspace from a different sector) .
In Afghanistan you had Harrier Gr7/9s flying into weather conditions that they were strictly speaking not allowed to fly into and was against every single rule of aviation to provide immediate close air support for troops in contact. So bad weather (and I mean really really bad weather) didnt stop CAS pilots IRL.
TLDR: This new mechanic is really wierd
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Y’all are both talking from the perspective of
CAS should be nerfed with airfield spawn
However this change wasn’t done for balancing (and this post isn’t abt CAS balance). The only reason I can think of that Gajin would make this change is for player convenience, which they ended up doing the exact opposite of, and made an extremely inconvenient change.
It’s not just in GRB but ARB too, on maps where there’s an airspawn.
It’s perhaps an interesting mechanic if the “Bad Weather” wasn’t partly cloudy.
Really beyond being an inconvenience all this mechanic has done is highlight how little weather variation there is in War Thunder. At least in ground battles there ought to be some real storms and such
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This is extremely untrue.
Yeah, what Id give for a far far wider range of weather and time of day variations you could experience. Especailly in SB
Would make CAP aircraft useless
The people complaining have an attention span of a Gnat. Take 5 seconds to click a button and spawn in air. Laziness.
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It shouldn’t need to be done though, and small annoyances add up and this game already has a thousand small annoyances.
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It might only take 5 seconds. But that is 5 seconds longer than was required before and nothing of value is gained by forcing those extra 5 seconds on the player.
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Cope with it like the rest of us.
This says nothing of value and gives nothing of value to say.
Sorta like this whole topic.
No. This forum is the only place a user of the game can express any amount of displeasure of a game mechanic in hopes to see it improved.
And any user can reply. Thats the point of a “forum.”
Yes, and here is me replying to tell you that there is zero point in telling others to “Cope with it like the rest of us.” when they are suggesting a change to improve the game.