This is the case for multiple ground players from 1.0 to 8.0.
CAS routinely gets free reign without much risk at multiple tiers in that BR range for the same reasons you are listing.
Balance is balance, CAS needs to get crapped on as hard as ground tanks do by CAS in order to maintain the health of the game.
Or as CAS types love to throw in the face of AA anytime this discussion is brought up, ‘its a skill issue’.
nope, not even close. CAP is one of the most profitable ways to use a plane in all of Warthunder.
And how often do you see CAP played compared top CAS?
THere will often be matches where several planes ignore eachother while going for ground targets
That doesn’t create a fun nor balanced gameplay loop. It’s even worse in rain where air vehicles can barely see but ground units are unaffected. And before anybody cries about it, I play plenty of SPAA and it’s not fun having targets that are oblivious to a threat because the rendering of weather is significantly different.
The vast majority of 2.7-6.7 games have a Yak, Zero, or Spitfire performing CAP.
There’s not much above that due to how OP SPAA is 7.3+ leading to very few players spawning planes. I still bring out my F-106A and F-16A most matches, both are good for chopper hunting.
Yes, this does happen. Stop trying to cope.
Any half decent CAS player at this tier can absolutely dominate with little risk and opposition - outside of opposing fighters.
Yes, a good player will perform better than a bad player. Thank you for the mind opening revelation.
I never stated otherwise - I simply stated that skill gap between a decent CAS player and a decent AA player is enormous given the operational requirements in game.
Keep trying to avoid my point by posting snarky non-sequiturs.
Sorry - flying CAS is not as hard as you are making it out to be. Countering with AA is significantly more difficult in most cases. That’s why you are seeing AA going to AT roles.
AA needs to be AA - not AT. CAS needs a counter.
This is a blantant falsehood in an attempt at CAS copium.
I’ve seen plenty of CAS do well at 7.3.
Sorry you have to actually contend with a counter at those BR’s - thats reality.
This isn’t top gun. Go put on your shades and play danger zone elsewhere.
Relevant as always.
Wow. People really don’t like this image by the amount of reports it got.
Don’t mind the reports - its just CAS babies upset about truth and having to face a Gepard or similar for the first time.
Oh I am not mad or anything just surprised. It’s the first time this image got reported and it has been used extensively.
Anyway, I don’t want to play the plane between 8.7 and 9.7 now. Because air defense vehicles have radar and missiles, and many CAS do not even have bomb landing points and rocket landing points.