It is, it takes away like 10 minutes basically a whole match of doing nothing, no rewards either. It also takes away from your activity so you get even less. All because someone cant accept that this team failed. Now imagine you play with a friend and he died early. Now he has to sit there for 15-20 minutes doing nothing.
That’s the reason why af aa rather is too weak than too strong.
Both enemies want to rtb, maybe j out, because game was over for them.
So why half of my team risk their planes to af aa instead of doing some AI kills and end the battle in seconds?
Result: Both enemies killed and 3 mates died to af aa…
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Imho this describes perfectly the downfall of AirRB with regards to player experience / skill.
But even with 100% deadly af aaa at prop BRs you can’t land, j out and leave - there is always a subpar player trying a suicide dive into the af aaa whilst you are landing.
Edir: Replaced a way more fitting expression with “subpar player” due to flag attack. Happy to see the next attack which will be revoked by forum mods as the post itself is in line with ToS.
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10 minutes isn’t a whole match. 25 minutes is.
If that dude decides to blow 10 minutes circling the AF, that’s his choice. 10 minutes is plenty of time to turn a match around hitting AI. If your team can’t do that whilst at least 1 person keeps an eye on the dude than your team, gaggle of randoms they may be, just doesn’t deserve to win because they failed to PTFO properly from the start.
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25 minutes is a match prolonged by some airfield camping pleb, 10 to 15 minutes is the average match, any br with decent missiles lasts 7 to 10 minutes and toptier is mostly over after not even 5. My team deserves the win in this case, since they managed to get a numbers advantage and prevented the enemy from winning with tickets (Might be too late if the advantage got too big, not every team has equal attackers). 10 minutes is not enough to turn a 2k+ ticket gap around, depending on your remaining team size and planes. The one guy keeping an eye still gets lower rewards than he should and also spends 10 minutes doing nothing because someone wont accept that he lost and your squadmate who died to ping can cook a decent meal while hes waiting for the match to finish. Not everyone can play for hours at a time, and behaviour like this can turn a day with 8 matches into one with 2.
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Lol. Lmao even.
Learn to PTFO or accept that you’ll keep losing matches that you could actually win.
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Enjoy your wasted time then, or think about a solution to base camping since you have spare time anyway.
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you mean you fly below the airfield aa and strave him??
easy kill if he sits at his airfield…
If i dont enjoy farming ai, why should i do it then? If it was fun i wouldnt mind doing it but right now the ai either does nothing or fucks you in one hit in rare cases. The kind of RP/SL i would get from those ai are similar to the ones i get for 2 kills, maybe an assist on top which is not even hard in most planes. The difference is that fighting others is for me and many others more enjoyable than shooting the ground without any risk at all.
Lets change the situation: You have a ticket advantage, 15 mins on the timer and a numerical advantage. Does the basecamper still deserve the win? Does he have the right to prolong the match for everyone else just so he doesnt die despite being able to J out on the runway without any risk? Its a problem with the gamemode and the easiest solution is to nerf airfield AA so passive behaviour is not rewarded anymore. The better solution is to change the gamemode entirely but that wont happen in the near future.
btw you still have not talked about how the guy keeping tabs gets ccked completely in terms of rewards/time
I have no clue what you are talking about…
Everyone knows exactly how long a battle is: 25min! That’s the deal.
If it’s finished earlier, ok, but you know every time you join, it could last 25min.
So what’s your problem?
This isn’t a tiktok game!
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Sure it can take that long but if its over after 15 then its over and the last one should not artificially extend it
Every now and then if the aircraft in question is particularly dangerous. Otherwise, I’ll either be the one to keep an eye on him outside of the detection range or let someone else do that as I hit AI targets.
So try to kill the last player, die to af aa, and the battle is over for you. It’s your choice.
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nah I just do it bc it doesnt bring me any sl for letting him live 5minutes longer, in the long run it would even cost me time and potential fun minutes in a game…
Or its lost and i loose a good chunk of the reward