Getting shot on the airfield is no fun… this is why there are guns…
Not so on several Denmark airfields… this has the effect of low level players coming into sim for the first time and racking up a dozen kills by killing anyone who spawns… or takes off.
Been an issue for 2+ months now.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/oXpfB5QGQ6Ml
Why do you spawn at an airfield without spaa protection knowing an enemy is there…
It’s the same thing as landing at forward AF in ARB and getting strafed by enemies
do you think he’s projecting the term “noob”…??
I’m seemingly projecting the term ‘noob’ to both of you since you can’t extrapolate the consequences of a bug on the game.
Did I say I was constantly spawning on spawn camped airfields?? no.
It something I noticed and … spoiler alert, you can spawn on an airfield that ISN’T flashing and get attacked BEFORE you can take off, not realising this is an issue. It doesn’t affect ALL airfields. Just the old design. I also returned to rearm at the closest field since I wouldn’t have fuel to fly another 10 minutes to the further field, and was consequently killed on take off when I saw someone approaching.
I also noticed that the players doing it were low level and one guy claimed he was constantly strafed himself so though it was ‘normal behaviour’… it’s certainly a quick way to get points/reward.
He’s highlighting a genuine problem in Sim that’s being abused.
I bet the game devs love you two as they can leave the game broken in so many areas and you’ll keep lapping it up, “it’s all fine just ignore it”.
They have 197 and 12 games in sim each.
What comes before ‘noob’?
Exactly. While you can check before spawning in, it’s a bigger issue when landing. Due to damage or fuel you may have to land on an undefended airfield, and even if you check it’s not flashing when you start your approach, by the time you come to a halt Dweebus Noobius Maximus might turn up and strafe you with his gunners on external view: literally playing space invaders.
I notice this ‘err, bug’ coincided with the start of the recent IAR-93 event. I’d rather have a bigger multiplier for genuinely-earned Sim points instead of a points give-away for point-and-click.
Wouldn’t mind so much if you could spawn SPAAG at the undefended airfields - and play space invaders against the strafers in turn.
Now thats an idea lol would be cool but we all now they wouldnt do that unfortunately lol
I’m not a full noob and i somewhat agree with them,they are right forward airfields were not always well defended irl in ww2,now i’ve been strafed on one of these airfields and it isn’t fun but i then did it back to him now i also had a friendly bomber sit and wait on that airfield for little b*tch boyz to show up and they got all the top guns lol he got 15 kills essentially as airfield AA
Let me ask you this how many of the games did you loss because of this problem?i can only speak for me but every single game i’ve been in they’re where the enemy team engaged in this behavior we always won the match.For clarity the reason the team that engages in this behavior loses it because the game mode is an objectively driven game mode so if they are wasting time even if they are getting some kills they aren’t completing the objectives so they lose so take of from the airfields further in the back and do the objectives and another plus is if they are all down there at the unprotected airfield they arent actively taking the players out that are actually doing the objectives and you always know where they are if you want to pvp them so i don’t see where it hurts the game mode any really and it actually just shows you who’s not that smart on the team
The fact that I can fly out in an F16 with 6 AGM 65Ds and a load of GBUs and sit above an AF at altitude and the airfield defenses wont shoot me down is absurd.
At top tier that isn’t a tactic you can really use. Someone will probably notice you on your way there or as soon as you get over the AF and it flashes someone will see it.
I rarely use my radar in game but I ALWAYS use it on my way back to base to rearm since it’s low risk.
Can’t recall every being bombed on the runway in rank 6+ in thousands of games.
(yes, airfields should get Pantsirs)
I don’t care about winning a game, its ONLY a consideration if I have popped a large SL booster… and even then, its irrelevant if you have a few million SL.
The issue is getting a early lucky kill in a stock plane and then instead of being able to chill on the runway and get the full RP you get robbed and lose most of it.
It’s 100% a bug… and it will fester for years unless people upvote it… and despite 11 clicks on the link… NO ONE HAS.
When the F16A is at the top of the bracket at 12.7 its pretty easy to do, especially on small maps like Denmark.
I havn’t played denmark that much so i don’t really have a say but…
for the lower bracket’s, Think Having the 40mm bofor’s as a defense would be a good deterrent for the forward bases?
(and maybe some actual flak on the way there. Want that black smoked sky lol)
you do realise you’re in the SIM forum??
small?? :p
ah, my b. anywho, they just need to update the aa then right?
I kind of have a problem with you sitting on the runway doing nothing for the team because your worried about you precious booster and that useful action but to each his own i guess,i don’t see it as a bug but it actually helps me complete the actual objectives because if you avoid the area of that one airfield instead of taking the risk of going to it and getting shot
The map is everything else than small bud