Anti-Air Woes

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Basically, this is a plea to make air combat more of an even playing field and overall more fun.

The anti-air turrets and tanks output a ridiculous amount of damage whereby an AA tank can destroy a fighter or light bomber within seconds. In fact, there was one game on Twisted Steel where I was upgrading my German AA tank but couldn't help but feel bad after a while being able to shoot so many planes down so quickly - I like it when fights are more fair. To make matters worse, many maps are so flat that it's hard for planes to evade flak considering the range of them hitting planes almost the length of the map away.

It would be better for pilots if the AA weapons were nerfed somewhat in both range and damage output to make it less of an insta-death and to also give bombers a chance to retaliate, especially for AA weapons in enemy HQs which can only be destroyed from above since infantry can't reach them. Or make it so that AA flak needs to be shot with some more precision instead of spamming flak in the plane's general direction - this would be better a nerf for rapid-fire AA tanks considering they can unload so many rounds per minute.

real_noobalishu · Answer

@TTZ_Dipsy&nbsp;Either you haven't flown in fighter since the update or simply upset you haven't been able to take a plane out in 1 hit like so many other pedestrians who still want AA buffed. There is a youtuber out there, can't remember who it was that shows you can take a fighter down in 1.3 seconds and bombers down in 2.5 seconds......please tell me how these need to be buffed even more!? Fighters are more or less obsolete now as there is really no incentive to fly them since every man and his dog is now spamming AA's on every plane map to the point you can barely leave spawn.

ttz_dipsy · Answer

Pom-poms (flak) need a damage boost to aircraft imo - They are super weak in their current state and I can't remember the last time I destroyed a plane that was near full health. On the other hand, the British AA tank does some serious damage to infantry.

German AA dear lord does it shred planes lol; a slight damage nerf for regular bullets seems appropriate but the onion rounds need a heavy buff - even with the burning over time they are near useless

ttz_dipsy · Answer

@Real_Noobalishus&nbsp;I was one of the top pilots in BF1 (in general matches, I sucked in the Aerial League) and still love Fighters in V - I only think the flak and incendiary fire needs a buff, everything else does need a nerf.I don't want BF1 levels of air burst, but stationaries need to be made viable as they can easily be shrugged off in their current state.Our job as pilots is to stay far up in the sky dogfighting, not going head first into tanks.

real_noobalishu · Answer

The way the AA is right now with the range they have, the ceiling isnt high enough to keep away from them unless you want to spend the game on 1 side of the map and our job isnt just dogfighting, our job is to keep fighters off our bombers so they can help ground targets push the objective, strafe/flare up the objective so ground troops and bombers know where to hit and in general scouting out advancing enemies to notify team members where to flank.

Stationary AA's can and are devastating as it only requires a total of 5 direct hits in any direction to take out a fighter, perhaps you have been lucky and not experienced maps where every stationary or mobile AA was being spammed. All variations of Anti-air should be renamed to Anti-Everything as I have also seen them wrecking tanks and pedestrians with ease

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