what? You’re saying exactly what I said. Planes can dodge Pantsirs only with hard manuvers, it’s difficult as hell if you’re carrying more than a couple of small bombs. I’ve flown enough F-16 to know how a Pantsir missile works, and it’s not simple. Rather easy to pull hard if you don’t intend on ever killing anyone, much less the pantsir itself. Try lasing a GBU-12 while pulling hard enough to dodge
People on Youtube showed how to do it, then You can do it too.
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And then the Pantsir players complain about not being able to shoot a F-16 in the stratoshere, as if it wasn’t their own inattention or incompetence that let them get up there.
If you have a CAS jet with a targeting pod you shouldn’t be dying to SPAA in top tier. Only thing that should be able to kill you are other jets.
That being said I only die from CAS maybe 1 out of 50 deaths in ground RB.
thats an insane take
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Foolish ideas，Air ground combat is the soul of this game
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As the OP said: “So Keep GRB as it is and bring in a new GRB game with no CAS and copy night battles with a No CAS option”.
No one is advocating for the removal of your “soul”.
Just like we should delete Air modes and send people to WoWp, right ?
Same with Naval as well.
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Just ignore the trolls, and anyone who uses ad hominem attacks. They are disingenuous.
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Why? We have pure Air modes in War Thunder and always had them.
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We don’t need those, we already have our “soul” mode, according to that guy above.
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The soul mode doesn’t allow pilots to fly without tanking first.
And doesn’t allow tankers to be just pure tankers if they want to have equal chances.
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True, but not that much “tanking” is required to take your Reserve tier vehicle to the cap point.
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Wait to hear that it is not effective because You can choose in what games (maps/modes) You play and You don’t get any crew lock penalty after leaving.
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Well just had another game of Fire Arc turn into another CAS frenzy ,Huge open map and no protection on spawn from the CAS or the campers.Little point wasting lives on that.
I did actually take out the games top scorer with a Dicker Max in what could have been amazing comeback but no ,CAS F***ed totally.SPAA useless as always. Watch the skies get hit by land units camping ,watch the land get hit by CAS.Pure dogshit.
I’m a CAS tolerant guy but some maps are just ruined by it.
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I’m a CAS tolerant guy but some maps are just ruined by it.
Gaijin worst attribute, in my opinion, has always been that their maps seem to always miss some fundamental part of their own game’s mechanics and end up making at least one type of vehicle or another unplayable. I really believe many of their problems could be solved by getting another developer from outside the milsim sphere to help them take a new approach to maps.
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Well said .Wisest words I’ve seen in a while.
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Not to mention they don’t have to research multiple branches to be competitive. Air branch can counter literally anything else in the game, while Ground one can’t.
Quite conveniently, Reserve tier tanks are at the start of the branch, totally free for everyone and guess what, you are allowed to only bring them in any BR match you like, which means you don’t even have to grind through Ground branch.
“Just use cover bro.”
Meanwhile your Dicker Max takes like an eon to get from spawn to the first hard cover.
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Not to mention they don’t have to research multiple branches to be competitive. Air branch can counter literally anything else in the game, while Ground one can’t.
Quite conveniently, Reserve tier tanks are at the start of the branch, totally free for everyone and guess what, you are allowed to only bring them in any BR match you like, which means you don’t even have to grind through Ground branch.
They should just make reserve tier vehicles produce no SP in high tier matches, even if you like CAS, seeing them is obnoxious and is a clear subversion of the spirit of the game in order to get unearned power.
“Just use cover bro.”
Meanwhile your Dicker Max takes like an eon to get from spawn to the first hard cover.
It is possible that maybe the Dicker Max has been designed into such a refined niche that it is simply a piece of useless junk if it can’t operate in that narrow purpose? There’s a reason we don’t use open-topped casemates in direct fire ambush roles anymore. Even in its “prime” they were basically leftover parts tumbling through the gordian knot of Germany’s logistical situation in WW2 that formed a AFV.
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In my opinion, ridiculous “achievements” like God Mode should be deleted, alongside the ability of spawning a vehicle that’s more than one tier below your highest vehicle in the lineup.
For example, if your highest tiered vehicle is rank 7, you would only be allowed to spawn in vehicles of tier 6 and 7.
Gaijin is purposely making them even more niche, just look at the recent map changes and spots that suited them the most being removed.
Other than that, every slow-ish vehicle is basically a food for CAS on that map, heck, even faster ones are, considering how far the spawns are.
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