I love the “Air Alert” and I’ve never played ground… it’s buggy as hell and I’m pretty sure it only works in certain directions but it’s fun
Aaahh AAHH!
This post has nothing to do with flares, but rather with the fact that SPAA systems that get downtiered due to subpar radar sets or lack fo search radar, like the Shilka, M163 and so on can completely circumvent their “downside”, by simply looking in the direction of the enemies airspawn and get a report the second something spawns.
If you look at my screenshot, I am reporting a helicopter at 0m altitude about 20 seconds into the game. There is no way in hell that you’d be able to differentiate a helicopter from a house at that distance and altitude. Same can be said for people using hill in the background for cover. Instead of having to use you binos to search in a big area, you press Z-6-1 and then scan on the bearing the game reported. Overall a bad mechanic, that doesn’t fix the fact that CAS is way stronger than AAA, but a halfassed fix that simply messes with BRs.
It’s a chuckle to use in ARB for sure.
“Duh!”
Actually, I’m pretty sure the “zero meters” is the altitude, not distance…
Yeah the worst part about it is it uses Meters for altitude (Russian Bias) and it doesn’t give the distance at all…
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It is. Also I’m not disagreeing with you necessarily. But this feature was a good thing as not knowing if a heli or jet is inbound is never fun. Especially with gaijins jank sound code that allows for silent helis and jets.
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This entire post is literally just you venting though.
Considering I am the only one providing information other than “No it doesn’t” and “Stop malding CAS main” and “It’s fun in ARB”, I’m probably the last one venting.
All I am asking for is that the command either get’s put into a state where it is balanced and doesn’t provide free information for the menial task of pressing 3 buttons and looking in direction of the enemies air spawn; or it getting removed until we have an adequate fix.
As of right now it behaves like a scouting function, except you can use it at a rate far greater than scouting funtion, with the added bonus of not having to use sights, like said scouting function.
Are you actually trying to say cas is balanced? And this minor help made spaa OP against cas?
And?
Spotting planes from the ground is infinitely harder than spotting tanks from air.
Every help spaa can get against the broken OP cas is welcome.