Topic is simple. When Players suicide bomb or kill their pilots mid-flight; All aircraft they have should get a penalty respawn timer, for how long is up for debate ( I want to say 2-3 minutes). Though, I’d imagine there would be some exceptions such as smacking into a tree, or when your pilot bails from the aircraft. The ability to plane cycle and essentially perform 24/7 bombing runs without penalty is ludicrous and poorly balanced. Also, air to air kills should have a buff in terms of XP gain to incentivize players to use Fighters more.
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i would say that if you purposefully suicide, hopefully the game tracks if you were at least trying to pull out, then you are locked out of all squads of that class as if you only brought that one so you would need to play other squads
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It’s indeed infuriating when you’re in the team attacking, and you see a human refuse suicide bombing on a STARTER tank… wasting precious tickets.
However, like @Rickyd123 said, sometimes crashing is not intentional (trees still attack me from time to time) or you know your plane just got overly damaged, having a fighter in tow, you won’t be able to pull up. In that case, yes I do suicide bomb (thought it gives the kill to the fighter pilot).
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And how you make the game do distinction between kamikaze and unintentional crash?
Im curios
No is not sufficient
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1-2 crashes: accident, you get a warning
3+ crashes: deliberate, you get a penalty
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I would like to see a penalty for suicide bombing. As an armor player it happens all the time to me, ironically I find it happens more often by high level players just raging because they failed to kill me with explosive packs so they just suicide bomb me destroy my tank and then immediately jump back into a assualter squad with no consequences.
Unfortunately I don’t know how they would determine what is a suicide bombing run and just a accidental crash or failing to pull up in time
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I can’t see the point here.
a) suicide bombing just wastes a precious bomber, making it a disadvantage for your team and gives room for a decent player to take over the bomber role
b) you can’t play bombers again directly after losing that squad; (you are already given your 2-3 minutes just by that)
c) a firm bomber pilot will occupy the plane for the vast majority of the match time
You mean
Ok, you can be a missile 3 time before took 30sec of penality
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Fixed it. Penalty must be severe to have an effect.
For more look here: Suicide bombing renders AAA and fighter planes useless
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But how do you determine actual suicide crashes. There have been times where I crash because I pulled too late out of a dive
And once I was in a long dogfight with this plane and late in the battle he started slowing down to a crawl and I slowed down so he wouldn’t slip away from me; and it was too late and I rammed into him accidentally
I say sometimes we crash for one reason or another, that’s just how it is
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Which is why Darkflow should add more XP gains to taking down aircraft. The air game for Enlisted is pretty stale. In the majority of matches I play there are ZERO fighters actively trying to hunt down bombers and the like.
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I’m pretty sure the devs can/or could track inputs from players. There use to be a bug/feature where aircraft in Tunisia would automatically start pulling up if you were in a steep dive.
I disagree with it. I’d rather the game not hold our hands whatsoever. If we crash we crash cuz of out own flying
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Not saying it should be added back. It was an example of the game monitoring inputs from the player
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Player with multiple bomber squad can.
The money can
I’d also think that rewards of shooting an aircraft down should be rewarded better. Btw, that’s also for getting one down with an AA gun. Should encourage pioneers to build some for that purpose and not for trying to use it somewhat inappropriately against infantry.
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Is that so? Didn’t know that, since I never payed for premium in any game that claims to be free to play.
So if that’s the case, they simply should turn that ability off.
“Freeloaders” (uhuhuh) also can, since most campaigns have more than one bomber plane squad as regular unlock. Unless they don’t have enough slots.
But premium or regular… having more than 1 bomber in rotation not only seems like a waste, but also quite lazy…
… thought it’s true some ppl like to spam hvar rockets all match long so I’m not that surprised.
Add team plane respawn timer can easily solve this problem. Just do not let the suicide bomb happen too quickly after previous bomb. It should make fighter plane more useful
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