On most maps, players tend to congregate in certain areas consistently. Drop a bomb in a chokepoint that isn’t controlled by your team, odds are pretty good you’ll get someone. You also have the option of popping up early to check these spots before diving back down. And relying on spotting from teammates.
It’s a niche playstyle, which is why it’s far less common than those using guided missiles from outside SPAA range. Or Su-25s with their nuke rockets, which can do treeline skimming attacks far easier.
Personally I think that either the “Air alert” warning should reveal the plane’s nametag, or light tanks should be able to spot aircraft like any other vehicle.
The CAS noobs start spamming topics like Strela and Type 81C overpowered. Good luck now with shooting down helicopters in maps like Vietnam Hills and Japan because these large hills are excellent cover for helicopter that hide when they see missile incoming.
Since the Strela got moved up, my favorite 9.0 line up has started getting bombed a lot more, it’s so annoying that is enough to make me quit playing after 5 matches.
that ground interference thingy is ridiculous i’ve missed a jaguar IS coming hot and straight at me from 5km away and helis at 1,5km because the missile just decided to kiss the ground like a javelin
My recent match, still had 1 missile left and none of my team died to CAS since I stopped them all. We totally have different experience using this beast.
It’s super annoying on the Type 93 and Type 81 that it takes a while before missiles do anything and you simply cannot hit anything that is close, so you can have a planes and helis around your spawn and there is nothing you can do about it… you need a target to be at least 1km away if not more.
Also no idea what happened to these smokeless motors.
Gee I wonder where there SPAA is… glad the smoke is there that leads directly to it, imagine having to actually look for it.
