Ignoring all the duplicate lobbies, PL and other preventions that are plaguing the weekends in general, Mr. Gaijin, what are we going to do about spawning on the carrier that is DEFENSELESS and that gives NO WARNING for nearby enemies like the airfields do, and getting a Kh38 to the deck just as the catapult launches me, making me fall into the sea promptly.
How do we rectify this issue, Mr. Gaijin? Who is going to pay for this? Please do explain.
They probably have to increase ship defense, but you could always just spawn at airfields instead of ships
Sim is the only place you can even do carrier gameplay currently
It might be worse than that.
HMS Ark Royal which is the common Bluefor Carrier, I dont believe has active AA currently. (its been a while since i paid attention, but I cant recall the last time I saw a redfor aircraft killed by HMS Ark Royal, if ever)
USS Forestal which is usually used for Redfor does.
The Ark Royal has never had anti-aircraft defenses activated in-game; there haven’t been any changes since its addition.
To be honest, the best solution would be to make the American aircraft carrier available to both teams. While I like the Ark Royal, it’s a bit too small for the F-14s and F-18s.
I didnt think they did and yeah… go back to how it was. Its a shame, was nice having different carriers and especially taking off from Ark Royal in a Buc or FG1, but the assymetry it creates is too much of an issue.
And yeah, they are too outdated for the higher BRs. Its probably about time they add bigger maps alongside bigger carriers (though with more space, would be really cool for them to add the ramped British carriers at the same time for an optional spawn point for any harrier)
For red side, the admiral kuznetsov it at least has the TOR m1 missiles, which are quite good, they’re just not enabled for the ship rn.
But blue side, idk what kind of SAM defense they have on their carrier ship
Rim-7 who is just a aim7
So a much worse missile… unfortunate
Yep
Well, to be honest, carriers are guarded and they do have some AA, but as HVTs they should have detection (like radar or something) and some ships with good AA around them (four is fine for me), like in real life.
Though I hate it when they one-shot my pilot with the first 5-inch shell that I can’t even see being fired at me, lol.
No, the ship has no defense at all. Not even escorts to supplement that fact. I could spawn at the airfields, yes. But why did I then spend 1 mil SL on the naval Phantom (which is exactly the same but a bit heavier) than the RAF one. I wanted to spawn on carriers. Will Gaijin reimburse me for this since it’s the games fault for being inconsistent? Will they replace my purchase with the other one and whatever I have upgrade so far? Mhm, yes, and then I wake up with a finger up my bum and my foot in the mailbox. They will laugh, make me spend another 1 mil SL on the other one, all in hopes I throw some money their way. :)
Blufor carrier past 9.0 is not guarded at all, its a free target.
I don’t know the carrier models well enough to tell them apart but on 13.3 ↑ on some maps the carrier kills me before I can drop the bombs lol
Would love to see the invincible class added for the Sea Harriers and GR.7, provided its the pre-refit standard then it has a twin Sea Dart launcher up front.
A bit further down the road once we get to the F-35B and QE class we will be back to the same issue the Ark Royal has, in the infinite wisdom of the MoD the QE and PoW’s best defense is to cross their fingers and hope.
As an aside I’d also like to see Ark Royal have her skin updated, just looks wrong with the all white deck markings. The center line, R and stern markings should all be red/day-glow orange:
