The A10, SU25, harrier, other strike aircraft could.use a permanent airspawn
The rest are not needed
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So basically just have Strike Aircrafts have air spawns throughout the entire game. I guess that’s fine.
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I like the airspawns cause they allow for people to bring more fuel.
It equalizes slower accelerating aircraft with the big boys.
Su-30SM no longer is bad accel on takeoff and can keep up with the team better.
Every single person that has asked for multiple airfields on the map; As the only way for that to be possible is with air spawns for the initial spawn.
Air spawns are good but we need to have more planes to spawn so u wouldnt need to rematch after u die
It will also help with the grind
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Agree, its another stealth rp gain nerf
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i have only been getting air spawns today, please gaijin
It’s also a (unneeded) stealth buff to certain planes that benefit most from getting up to speed and climbing to altitude to spam their missiles off asap
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It’s just arcade battles with RB flight models now. I can’t believe they only go backwards with this game. The whole community has been SCREAMING and BEGGING for ARBEC and now we just got AB+
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Which include Su-30SM, Mirage 3, F-4E, F-4F ICE, Tornado F3 & Late, Mirage 2000, Gripen, F-16s, and Viggen to name a few.
Yeah I’m not a fan of the air spawns. You said it all pretty well, I have nothing to add but my support of your petition.
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Air spawn should only be a mechanic for subsonic strike aircraft and bombers. Even disregarding that this nerfs match playtime further, it’s just an unfun change designed to encourage more AAB behaviour in ARB matches.
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hopefully gaijin will respond to player feedback. arb games already last 6 minutes, we don’t need to get it down to 4 minutes 30 seconds
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I was just spamming pheonix missikes seconds after spawning in last night.
Land, take off amd spam again.
Who even asked for this?
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A friend has taken to doing exactly this on a rinse/repeat cycle in the Iranian f14.
Ensure they have airspawn selected. Lock immediately from spawn, fling all four fakour, slow right down and land on forward runway then do it again
It’s a horribley robotic, mindless and skillless way to play and that’s what the airspawns seem to encourage
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People that play exactly that way: spam, land, repeat.
Oh, and for who that asked for it? Apparently it is very boring and monotonous to constantly take off from the airfield. So quite clearly they are Zombers that came from Arcade and F-15E players.
Only going to get worse. Im.going to pheonix the rest of the US tree.
Can watch TV, youtube and get a bunch of kills at the same time. And my missus used to say i cant multi task😂
Having A10’s and other slow jets spawning air would of been nice though
Honestly, with how Gaijin has been, I just went back to low tier. They haven’t messed with props since the game came out.
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Airspawn+16v16=6 minute matches at 9.7.
I genuinely cannot understand how anyone can defend either of those when they are have an objectively bad effect on the game.
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I like the airspawns, wish they would bring them to props and then just keep bombers with them, rebalance BRs of planes that have one as a crutch to justify their higher BR.
As for match length, the only difference is these 6 minutes matches would be what 6 minute and 30 seconds instead? Or for props 8 minute matches instead of 10?
Outside of whatever that small city map is I still have plenty of time to posistion and climb, I don’t mudsuck in any plane aside from subsonics in supersonic BRs, and either climb to below contrail or 8-10k. All this does is cut the downtime at the start of the match by a bit.
You can do the same thing without airspawns, it just takes a little bit longer? Relative posistions are going to be mostly the same if everyone starts the same.
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In term sof match length every single second counts towards RP, I’d rather have the few seconds more or what I’ve aways had than the less. Wouldn’t you?
As for potlsitioning, I disagree. Taking off from a small predefined point that eveyone has to so everyone gets the exact same start point and position. Currently that just isn’t the case whatsoever, players are spread out giving some more favourable positions than to others, you seem to also ignore the arbitrary spawning speeds that make zero sense and provide what’s essentially a stealth buff and nerf to various planes as a result too.
As for the robotic mindless gameplay you feel you can do without airpsapwns, yes you can but the crux of that issue is that it actively encourages that’s mindless robotic gameplay over developing skill and teamplay moreso instead. If it was neither a here nor there thing I’d agree but it really isn’t, this mechanic is very reductive gameplay.
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