We all have a love-hate relationship with this game. Anyone saying otherwise is either extremely new to the game or just a master at gaslighting themselves lol
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why should you spawn a tank, when you can get into an OP CAS plane that requires no skill to use.
Because none of the RP you get in the plane contributes to your ground research, which is already slow enough. (This confuses me most about the american CAS spam).
Although planes do require skill.
the ones with only 50kg bombs or maybe the Duck but not average suicide P47 noob…
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In my experience it depends on how effective the SPAA are in a game.
I have noticed when I initial spawn in an SPAA and start swatting every drone and helicopter that pops up and the first airplane, I see a lot less aircraft than if I drive a tank and let a few CAS guys get playing and cocky.
Couple weeks ago, before the big patch and BR adjustment I was getting 6-8 aircraft in a match and got wing-breakers back to back several times, now I’m lucky to see 4 aircraft in a lot of matches, including drones.
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cause you cant cap in a plane or hold positions in a plane, and planes have short usefulness usually with them only having enough for a kill or two usually before having to RTB which wastes a lot of time.
I mean, it’s like… 70-90 seconds to RTB, rearm and be back to drop another bomb load. And that’s with a 4.0 BF109F. A corsair will do that dance way faster and way more effectively. The runway is like 5 kilometres away, maybe 7-8 on some maps.
Significant amount of time in a WT match, especially when it’s often far longer than this… You are basically talking about helicopter/VTOL jets using the helipads. Most planes have to spend longer.
Oh so you just haven’t actually ever tested this then
Oh so you DEFINITELY haven’t tested this then
But why would You even RTB?
In most cases there are still targets You can kill with Your MGs.
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I’ve tested it. Fly at B point on maginot line, fly towards airfield at 400 km/h and do stupid maneuvers to basically stall onto the airfield. Belly land or gun burst to slow down faster.
15 seconds rearm maxed.
Take off is 2-3 seconds and then accelerate to 400 km/h rapidly. Maybe you take 100 or 110 seconds due to climbing some but that’s still very little time.
Is it? You spawn in at ~22:45 and drop your bombs on someone still rolling towards a flanking position (or maybe even straight towards a point in slower tanks on hillier maps). You can repeat at ~19:25 and so forth.
In a 12 minute game, that’s going to be a lot of bombs and associated kills assuming you don’t get harrassed by CAP. God forbid the game lasts 20 minutes…
You take about 3x what you said it takes. It can get longer at specific BRs… Please record yourself trying this and get back to me
Most CAS players are not rushing CAS to this extent.
How would it even take 300 seconds.
One-way flight to an airfield on a 5 km map is 30-45 seconds depending on your plane’s speed (300-500).
If I’m playing against america, there’s propeller noise by 22:45, 21:00 latest a significant portion of my games.
If I get maginot line while playing my 4.3 SPG lineup, sure.
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I belive it is max 3 minutes (180s)
It’s more like ~150-200
Depends on the map and B.R., in most cases can take much lower.
Prove it. When you record you are going to find out you are underestimating time.
I’ll try to record it for You when I think about doing an RTB as in most cases there is no need for it.
What is this A-1H thing, the other day this thing had 7 kills and was only 3 minutes into the game.
pretty OP CAS plane