I’m currently spading the Osa-AKM and Strela-10M2, and it’s a nightmare. These vehicles have no cannons and are entirely dependent on enemy aircraft spawning. In many matches, only one plane or a couple of drones show up. Even when you successfully shoot them down, the SL and RP rewards are ridiculous compared to MBTs. What does Gaijin expect us to do to spade these vehicles? The reward system for anti-air is outdated and needs an urgent buff to match the effort required.
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Currently u get a lot less from shooting down CAS than from killing a tank. Just make the better
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You know what is even worse? Playing mid tier spaa and you get people spawning in 4.0 planes in 7.0 matches and such. You shoot 3 of those down and have less rewards than killing a single tank.
While those planes have just the same offensive capabilites (bombs, 20mm) as 7.0 planes they are just slower.
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Killing a plane with an SPAA rewards 1500 SL before multipliers.
Killing a tank rewards 1000 SL before multipliers.
Planes have a mechanic known as “Severe Damage.”
Severe damage means the actual “kill” is only 20% of the reward. You’ve already received 80% of it when you:
- Destroyed all engines
- Cut off more than 50% of the wing
- Destroyed the horizontal stabilizer
- Destroyed all flight control surfaces.
Occasionally, you kill a plane already marked as “Severely Damaged” - then you receive 40% of the reward rather than 20% or 80%.
If you directly kill the pilot, burn the plane down or sever the tail then you receive 100% of the reward immediately.
Read more on rewards here: Report on how scores, SL, and RP rewards are calculated
Read more on Severe damage here: [Development] Testing out the Severe Damage mechanic - News - War Thunder
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Now show the RP statistics, more so out of curiosity then anything else.
Because I know for a fact that I have received less rewards from shooting down planes then killing tanks.
Attached all.
RP is primarily controlled by Time Alive, not kills.
RP follows the following formula:
Activity is:
- your time alive in a vehicle
- your score earned in the vehicle.
- outputs a percentage.
Some examples:
| Score | Min | Sec | Duration (s) | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3066 | 10 | 47 | 647 | 100 |
| 109 | 1 | 45 | 105 | 52 |
| 708 | 4 | 35 | 275 | 91 |
| 1146 | 8 | 58 | 538 | 93 |
| 2184 | 12 | 51 | 771 | 97 |
| 1569 | 11 | 26 | 686 | 94 |
| 1929 | 6 | 35 | 395 | 99 |
| 1637 | 19 | 35 | 1175 | 83 |
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Appreciate that, thank you
That’s still very little, especially considering there are several matches where not even a single plane spawns, also, SPAAs don’t have any other game mode to grind. The only viable way to level them up is in Ground Battles.
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Could be as I mentioned previously lower tier planes. Like when people bring out peashooters or stukas at higher BR. Killing those gives you bugger all score or anything at all.