Bring Back Effective Rapid Fire AAA guns

[Venturi]

Hi All,

 

Rapid fire AAA guns are rather ineffective since the devs made them less accurate to silence complainers. AND, THEY ARE BUGGY NOW!

 

I'm talking about the rapid fire tracer type AAA. Now, I remember the complaints like yesterday back during beta testing. "Too accurate" "Can't bomb" etc. 

 

But here's the problem with the way it is now. Rapid fire AAA is ineffective and BUGGY. If you're a single plane low over an enemy airfield defended by AAA guns, you can loiter for some time without consequence. If you fly in a multiplayer server with these guns, it is a common (and resource-draining) sight to see them shooting away into the sky at no target, for no good reason, for minutes at a time.

 

THIS ISN'T THE WAY IT SHOULD BE. If you are an attacker, you *should* have to ingress, drop, and egress rapidly, or pay the price. You *SHOULD* be bringing multiple planes to the party, or dropping from high altitude. Or you should pay the price.

 

If you want accurate and historically correct pilot behavior, you have to model realistic pressures on the pilots. Deadly AAA IS ONE OF THEM. Historically pilots did not hang out low over enemy airfields. 

 

In multiplayer, the problem with this is you can't really defend your airfield or targets realistically. You have to put a million slower firing AA to try, but it still isn't as REAL as it ONCE WAS. 

 

They shouldn't be radar-guided accurate with instant hits. But they should be pretty close, especially if you hang out in their vicinity.

 

This poll is to change it back.

Edited April 25, 2015 by Venturi

[3instein]

I agree,

 

I think I have only ever been shot down once due to flak or AAA, even yesterday while on MP I could see tracers firing into the air at nothing and flying over these sites doesn't fill me with fear, on the contrary, I don't even give them a second thought which isn't right I would have thought.

 

Surely they could be made a little more deadly rather than just fluff, there to make it look purdy.

 

Mick.

[TG-55Panthercules]

How about this for aother poll option? Create a Mods On mode and let players choose to tweak the AAA back to where they want it for their purposes without forcing all players to live with your (or the devs') particular view of how accurate/deadly the AAA should be?

[6./ZG26_Emil]

I built a mission and found the flak to be fairly nasty. Is this your experience online only or both on and off?

[361fundahl]

I get torn up by anti air near airfields usually only when I am going too slow and not changing direction enough.

[Sokol1]

I think that changes in this will affect the air gunners too, as both became make pauses (slow rate of fire) between fire due EA complains.