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[ASharpPencil]

The amazing MM that WG gave us.

Uneven player T aircraft, skill, specialist are unbalanced.

One team with with many unskilled players.

 

All can easily fix by WG...

[zen_monk_]

...and game related: the damn "bird strikes", as one romantic put it here. When the server slaps you with previously received damage, only not calculated untill then. You fly over the clear blue sky, no plane anywhere near and booom, you lose 15-20% hp all by itself. Once even my pilot had a stroke instantly after respawning, blue all around.

[levlos]

zen_monk_, on 08 January 2021 - 09:16 PM, said:

...and game related: the damn "bird strikes", as one romantic put it here. When the server slaps you with previously received damage, only not calculated untill then. You fly over the clear blue sky, no plane anywhere near and booom, you lose 15-20% hp all by itself. Once even my pilot had a stroke instantly after respawning, blue all around.

 

Oh yes I love that one. Once, that "bird strike" killed both my engines as I was nearing a sector. I died seconds after, because the heavy defense aircraft shattered me at high altitude while I was struggling not to stall.

 

Karma, I tell you.

[RoyalFlyingCorps]

apartclassic, on 08 January 2021 - 06:40 PM, said:

If by any chance they were called Helper_003 and 005 (or somesuch)...

 

Ah, so far I've only come across those special people (or should I say "person") once and that was on the enemy team.  Sure enough, this is an abuse of the game system.

[jss78]

RoyalFlyingCorps, on 08 January 2021 - 02:20 PM, said:

An A-26B playing heavy fighter defending the one sector we had when the enemy had several...

I saw this guy in-game (surely there can't be more than one?). He actually shot down my bomber -- which isn't to say he was doing an effective job on the whole. I saw him fly up at 3500 m, wondering how well his bombs are going to hit from that altitude. Then he started coming for me ... oh.

 

For me, the biggest annoyance is games which you can tell are going to be losses after 2-3 minutes. You all know how it is -- your human team mates are below the bots in the table, the enemy has two guys up to 2 chevrons and 5000+ points. Nothing you do will change the outcome.

 

I don't even mind the stomps otherwise, but they become truly unfun because of how many objectives are tied to winning the game.

[houghtonbee]

Invincble ADA.

[zen_monk_]

houghtonbee, on 14 January 2021 - 01:32 PM, said:

Invincble ADA.

 

Fortunately I haven't met tlem lately, thought they fixed it. You still get them?

[houghtonbee]

zen_monk_, on 14 January 2021 - 01:43 PM, said:

 

Fortunately I haven't met tlem lately, thought they fixed it. You still get them?

 

Yes, always around the time the squall countdown begins. Usually you can just switch to another one but things like Command Centres with only 3 ada are obviously a lot harder to cap if it happens (and your idiot bombers/gaa are wasting time on airfields grrr!).

[Sheldwin]

houghtonbee, on 14 January 2021 - 01:41 PM, said:

 

Yes, always around the time the squall countdown begins. Usually you can just switch to another one but things like Command Centres with only 3 ada are obviously a lot harder to cap if it happens (and your idiot bombers/gaa are wasting time on airfields grrr!).

 

It is little challenging but if you look at big map there are still marked "invisible" ground targets so you can try estimate their positions with this help. Another thing what can help you are previously bomb trails at ground. And you can see color change (from white to yellow) of the bomb aim circle if you are over invisible target too. Also you can see the tracers of AA guns shots if there are some AA guns left. And if you are hitting the targets the personal points are counting.

 

P.S.: And after many battles I has been playing at AA I remember many targets positions.

Edited by Sheldwin, 16 January 2021 - 12:05 AM.

[RoyalFlyingCorps]

Seeing airfight10 on my team.

[GonerNL]

I almost start crying when on a map with a choice of mining plants and missile bases the whole team - except the one bot that reacted to your F2 - speeds to the nearest garrison or airstrip.

[levlos]

- Seeing both my two bot il-20 turning in circles on the mountain map, while I encounter 2 enemy bombers and two attack aircraft over the plant. Mysterious indeed.

- Having a 1200ms ping spike and a packet loss of 800%+ 300% hemorrhoids when I am just about to release my 4 bombs in a dive over the plant. Of course, I release nothing and instead dig myself a nice little crater instead.

 

- Having a Yak-3 pilot come with my bomber over the plant and see him shooting the same factory building for 3 minutes.

 

- Seeing at the end of the game that the guy who pinged all the time all the bases and sent orders to everyone died twice as many times as he had shot aircraft in the entire battle.

 

- Enduring a pilot that does barrels rolls all the time while heading to a corner of the map, actively avoiding all the icons and circles of the map.

[Vladinir_Shotitov]

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 Seeing airfight10 on my team.

 

No, I think you'll find you are on his team... but don't shine too much or you won't feature on his YouBoob channel.

[Mournfull]

Levlos calling me names while I have a chatban!

[levlos]

Mournfull, on 16 January 2021 - 10:13 PM, said:

Levlos calling me names while I have a chatban!

I am calling you "bad hombre" because you love it, dirty ole pervert ! .... You are lucky I did not go full "A Fish called Wanda" in French, because I know you have a heart condition !

Also, one has to wonder: my favorite sky-mate turbo-sliwka is also chat banned. It begs the question: does it have to do anything with the new event ? Hmmmmm

 

PS: I guess your chat-ban will last for about 72 hours. My last one did. So I have plenty of time to call you bird names. Can't wait

[zen_monk_]

houghtonbee, on 14 January 2021 - 02:41 PM, said:

 

Yes, always around the time the squall countdown begins. Usually you can just switch to another one but things like Command Centres with only 3 ada are obviously a lot harder to cap if it happens (and your idiot bombers/gaa are wasting time on airfields grrr!).

 

Crap, you're right - just had one. Sounds crazy but haven't noticed it in a looong time.

 

Too bad.

[GonerNL]

Ah, another favourite ; the last surviving bot on your team, we're winning and clock is ticking, decides to do a suicide over a red base ...

[RoyalFlyingCorps]

Even more irritating when it's a human player...

[McTorpe]

In addition to what has already been said...

 

ALL 3 base maps.

 

Heavies playing to be GAA, ignoring red GAA and bombers.

 

Multi-rol doing ground damage and less than 200 damage to other planes.

 

GAA players awaiting in defense against other GAA after base capture.

 

Even worse, GAA players against combat flight bombers.

 

Fighters with zero kills in defense.

 

Players with less than 50 battles and tier 2 max playing with premium 8.

 

Inactive bots in a captured base without going to another, even if you mark it.

 

Press F2 and the bot furthest from that base responds.

 

Press F3 with a high-altitude bomber and a low-altitude fighter responds.

 

Press F4 against a bomber and do not respond a heavy.

 

Press F7 and an airplane at the other end of the map responds.

 

When me and red players have 7k pp and 2-3 chevrons and my teammates less than 2,5k pp.

 

When I destroy ground target or a enemy plane and give capture points and base to red team.

 

When one bot can win the battle killing the last enemy bot and let it with 3 hp and stop shoot it.

[RoyalFlyingCorps]

That's almost a poem in the manner of Gerard Manley Hopkins.