As we all know, in GRB, there’s a CAS problem in GRB. We have a few solutions but one of the most used is spaa. While in my opinion it’s a good thing, it doesn’t actually do anti-air. It actually incentives air. One of the most common things you’ll find at top tier is premium tanks bought by inexperienced players.
These players obviously do not have spaa or any sorts of counters to air unless they bought a premium plane which they might also not know how to use. Usually they’ll get farmed and the opposing team spawns CAS when they die and with teams filled with premium tanks, they usually just destroy them because there is nothing stopping them. Now why does SPAA contribute to this CAS issue?
Because for me, I used to be an air main which means I have top tier air but with no spaa so my only option is to spawn my F15/F18 with anti-air loadout to shoot them down. Usually I’m the only person to spawn a counter to air after dying which means I’m not there in time to stop CAS from doing another run or someone spawns in a SPAA but they can’t stop them in time either or unable to kill CAS. When I do reach the battlefield and shoot the guy down, they then spawn in their own SPAA to specifically kill me which then gives me another thing to fight when I am in my CAP role as I now have to focus on not dying to the SPAA and also looking out for more planes that might spawn.
Usually in this case I get double teamed and shot down and have to watch as my team gets obliterated or I lose focus of one of them and get shot down by either SPAA or a plane behind me. This obviously doesn’t give me fun and also hurts my team as now they have no cover against air now as I’ve been downed.
Another thing I’ve seen that made me think this way is when there is a heli and SPAA working together. One player jumps in a heli with ATGM and sits over a hill to sling them off towards us while his SPAA friend covers him by shooting down missiles that were fired towards the heli which makes them almost unkillable which doesn’t sound fair does it?
Which is why there’s 2 solutions in my opinion that could work. Either remove planes and helis from GRB and also remove SPAAs because they’re now almost pointless with only a handful being able to do anti-tank work and majority with only missiles or guns that tickle tanks.
The second is remove SPAAs but make planes armed with anti-air missiles free and also give a plane that is capable of air work as well to players that do not have a plane in their lineups so that they have counters to planes.
These two solutions probably doesn’t sound good compared to other ideas but these are the only two I can think of that will solve the issue of CAS entirely and not have any lingering problems except maybe those who grinded out top tier SPAAs which I think they should be compensated for by being given a vehicle of their choice or have a vehicle in a future update unlocked with no grinding at all.
Well that’s my 2 cents on the CAS issue, probably a very bad opinion but yeah, it’s either this or some super genius comes up with a way better idea that solves everything.