It has nothing to do with them playing CAS, you just want an excuse to be angry.
just use “Air Alert!”. It tells you the direction and altitude of a aircraft, even one you can’t see, for free.
Yup, its just a salty/toxic player who decided to teamkill which just happens to be on a CAS vehicle. Not much we can do about it, friendlies shot my Nuke many times, friendlies bullied me with a tank by ramming my smaller tank against a wall, friendlies pushed me to the river to drown, friendlies bombed me, friendlies purposely shooting smoke at me for salty reasons. Not a matter about CAS but a matter of toxic players doing their thing on ruining others gameplay.
Maybe don’t group up into easy target blobs?
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That isn’t always my choice. I actually have typed into chat “Don’t bunch up”, more than once.
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When You look at the aircraft and use it then it tells You that.
Otherwise it doesn’t do anything.
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I usually just look in the general direction of the enemy airspawn and hit it every now and then. Reduces the element of surprise of enemy air attacks.
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Doesn’t change that You need to aim at the target in order for air alert to work.
You can’t just click it and have it magically working.
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a typical CAS player
It’s enough to look into the general direction of the target.
It works even when they are behind hills, low flight behind hills, mountains, terrain, tree lines just as long as we face to their direction. Probably won’t work if they a bit far, but once they close enough it works without seeing them yet.
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Just look in the aircraft’s general direction and use it. It works even if he’s behind mountains or too far to see. Also very useful for detecting helis.
Very good aa sadly to weak for the upcoming cas Meta
Also while the aa is good the platform is Very bad
The truck is huge and doesn’t seam to accelerate at all
Also no smoke
We need improved SPAA for all Nato nations for top tier anyway.
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Bullshit. ground works fine on its own , it did before CAS.
the amount of deaths to some douche in aircraft way off is smothering the gameplay.
easiest solution is to remove cas completely …
im so tired of the constant bombing i could care less aboutr the cas players at htis point.
if they wanna CAS give them their own mode and spare the tank players they griefing.
Basolfse
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That’s why you seem upset—your bias towards your own perspective is preventing you from seeing the bigger picture.
The game is advertised as it is, and you need to adapt. Use anti-air or spawn a helicopter/plane to counter the other CAS.
When I encounter games where I’m overwhelmed by CAS, I just accept the loss and move on to the next game. Sometimes there are six planes in the air, so I bring out my anti-air and manage to get four kills.
It is what it is.
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No, it doesn’t, and CAS has been in ground battles since the inception.
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Gaijin’s vision for this game has been Combined Arms.
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Skill Issue. Learn to use SPAA or CAP.
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Rather than wasting breath demanding the removal of CAS to soothe your hurt fee-fees, advocate for better and more SPAA.
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You can also always just uninstall and move along if you can’t cope with the game.
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To solve all of the mentioned issues, I think they would need to change the game from ground up, which is a massive task. Adding a new mode that’s basically GRB but without air vehicles would be a pretty basic job that would solve some of the issues you mentioned.
Aren’t they praising the ever growing number of players ?
Nope, just because CAS is just a much easier way to remove people from good spots, doesn’t mean ground vehicles can’t do just that themselves. Not a single spot is magical, if you can shoot them, they can shoot back at you.
Players love to join the lemming train, leaving 70% of the map open, then complaining how maps suck because someone wiped the whole team from a flank that should/could be guarded.
Also, I’d want to see maps get better over time, with or without aircraft present. Those troublesome spots (if any) could easily be blocked by placing a single rock over it.
This game has multiple military branches such as Aviation, Ground, Helicopters and Naval. If one branch has a standalone mode, all others should have as well. It’s either all or none of them, anything in between is clearly unfair and wrong.
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Guess who doesn’t need to adapt, someone that exclusively plays Air Battles.
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That person doesn’t need to grind multiple branches of the same nation’s TT to stay competitive in his game mode, which also translates to much less grind and RP/SL cost in total.
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That person won’t go against player controlled vehicles of other branches that will outright outrange his vehicle, leaving him with basically no counters from the get go. (CAS vs tanks)
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That person won’t have to deal with sub-type vehicles (in this case SPAAs) that are getting blatantly outranged by the very thing they’re supposed to counter, thus making it’s use aggravating in plenty of cases
As I said in my previous post, if Air can have such privileges, other branches like Ground should have as well.
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And by doing that, you increase the queuing time for everyone else. By adding more game modes, you’re spreading the player base even thinner.
They’ve already stated that they won’t introduce a tank-only mode, so why keep asking?