A reserve plane gets triple flyouts, plus triple backups, IF the backup is already assigned to the plane. So you can run the Sakeen three times, then pop the backup, then fly three more times.
The trick is if you select to pop the backup from in game you only get one backup, so you always want one backup riding on your Sakeen (or any other reserve plane) going into a fight.
ah I see it counts as a reserve. Makes sense then
Heli PvE matchmaking needs to be revised. Battles should be spitted according to the helicopter’s missiles: SACLOS, laser guided or Fire-and-forget.
All the more reason(s) to simply ditch the entire averaging thing and just move Air AB to a highest BR in your line up determines how the matchmaker sets you into games. Just like every other mode besides one and done Air RB.
More continuity, less chances for players to cheese the system and less drastic circumstances in uptier/downtier scenarios.
The averaging thing has outlived any usefulness and really needs to be retired.
There are plenty of planes at all BRs in almost every nation and with back ups, no real reason a player cannot make a line up to play a full Air AB match without running out of planes.
Squads should play exclusively with squads, without ruining the game for everyone else. Especially a squad of 4 people.
I met nerds playing according to the tactics you described, tried to write in the chat so that everyone would focus and shoot them down, but it did not help much because of the large number of crew slots and backups they have. After the battle, I counted in the log: one of them only went into battle 5 times on IL-2, some newbies do not even have that many crews.
Personally I’m happy about this, finally I can play Yak-4 and other BR 2 planes in a relaxed manner without seeing KD nerds on sakeen.
This change hurts smaller nations that have their planes spread across a variety of BR numbers, e.g. a 5.0, 5.3, and 5.7 now get classed as 5.7, whereas a large nation that has 3 or more 5.7 planes now has a big advantage over that small nation.
And still, people abusing the likes of the MIG-21S (R-13-300) can still add a junk plane to end up at BR8.7 instead of 9.0, which makes it ridiculous when it gets downtiered, yesterday I saw one with 25 kills and zero deaths when I gave up.
The update is already here, and of course no one listened to players concerns.
If you use one plane in the lineup, your matchmaker BR will be the same as this plane BR:
But you can very easily go around this and add a second plane that is two BR steps lower:
Then you can abuse the lower BR matchmaker. So this change doesn’t really change much.
Why is it so hard to just use the highest BR vehicle in the lineup as the matchmaker BR? This would be the most fair, but also the simplest solution and it would fix all the problems players already mentioned in this topic.
The BR “averaging” system in Air Arcade is so heavily abused these days that if you don’t do this yourself, you will be in a disadvantage compared to many other players. I use this system as well, just because I don’t want to fight against 1.3 or 1.4 BR higher planes.
If you want to be competitive, you are basically forced to use this system and lower your BR, which is unfair to all players who don’t use it.
Tested on 2.3 - 2.0 -1.7 plane, the average of which is 2.075, according to the wiki it should be 2.0 , the actual value being 2.075, yet in game it’s 2.3.
On the other hand now you can downtier any plane by pairing it with a single reserve plane (which even if not used will not get crewlocked)
This is not ‘simplified’, this is weird…
With such weird calculations I tend to agree with LeChance, just skip the mechanic altogether and make the BR of the highest plane the BR of the lineup…
You are correct. So this new system is even dumber and more open to abuse than I expected.
Just add a reserve plane to the plane you want to play at a lower BR and you are fine (you don’t play this reserve plane, just add it to the lineup to have a lower BR matchmaker). And since everyone has reserve planes, this system is just stupid. As usual, the devs didn’t think this change through at all. They even called it “simplified” somehow.