I don’t think that’s really the cause at all. Sure, some people are just doing it for kicks but there are other times and places it can make sense.
Say… Two Tiger II’s pounding the crap out of your team and you’ve done your best with AT guns and bomber squads. You make one bombing run and are pretty confident it was a good bomb but the Tiger II is basically fine (this is not uncommon). While flying back out to reload your team is getting even more decimated. The next time out you might just make sure by kamikaze since you need to get back to fighting for the objective.
Sometimes it is done because the plane is wounded and not going to make another run or survive an encounter.
Yes. And especially when the tanks are protected by aa guns, the only effective way to take them out is to smash into their face to ensure your bombs land.
People with multiple aircrafts can drop their payloads and intentionally crash their plane to spawn in a new plane with fresh bombs or rockets. It is much faster then flying to the re-arm point and flying back to the battle field as you cut the trip in half.
Since silver and research progression are related to the experience gained during a match, suicide bombing will allow you to drop bombs more frequently, thus earning more silver and research experience any given match.
It’s a low skill high reward tactic much like the flamethrower and phosphorus grenade spam prior to their nerfs.
Con:
The player who suicide bomb progress too fast.
Most of the team ticket will be used up by the player suicide bombing, assuming the team is not defending in the invasion mode.
add bombing assist to new players. Like the bombing indicator in WT arcade mode.
add bouns for plane’s retreat. like a free respawn without any ticket or immediate respawn without count down. The retreat point should be the same point as resupply point.
add penalty for suicide bombing. like +1 other team used before using plane again or add respawn distance
It isn’t that bad, it is the most effective thing some people can do, and the plane itself dosent deal any collision damage, so you have to land your bombs on him for them to die, and it isnt as effective as normal bombing.this is how the new players start to understand how to fly.
it is absolutely an issue (regardless of suicide planes). smart players spam suicide squads and push into enemy to weaken them before they get into cap for no price at all. it is most effective strategy to contain attackers, but average player doesnt know it and usually stays in the cap defending it and get easily overrun.
I just fear that finite tickets would make it too easy for attackers to just camp the objective instead of capturing it.
I might be wrong but I’d rather have them try some other means of preventing suicide abuse first before they make such huge changes to the match design.
they would need to cut 25 minute for capturing a cap to something more normal like 10 minute or 15 minute to encourage attackers to cap. infinite tickets just dont make sense for defenders.
I mean the flying loop is just not fun nor practical.
You wanna fly for 6000meters for another bombing run? They put refill spots at 3000 meters, you have to fly back, refill then another 3000m to the target…
It’s just not fun, especially older lower BR planes that have very slow speed, when I’ve leveld Moscow, my bombing runs were ALT+TAB simulator, watching content on youtube.
So why bother refilling? Just suicide, get 5-15 kills. Go next. Players will always choose the most efficient way to play.
Finally, someone who KNOWS
Yeah, you cut down the timeout way down so that people aren’t stuck in forever snooze fest matches and you obviously give defenders way more tickets than the attackers start with (enough so that they only run out doing some egregious stuff - ive had matches where it was literally raining planes and the capzone was basically a meat grinder because defenders had like 8 rallies right outside and they just respawned so fast you physically couldn’t get a majority on the cap, despite them living 30s on average)
Sounds to me someone is mad about being killed in the grayzone one to many times. Look there is no benefit for me to jump in a plane and suicide bomb the plane itself, it does no damage or explosion damage once crashed to the enemy and I have tested this. No if I don’t want to fly the plane anymore why would I stay in the plane why not let someone else have the plane slot, I mean ill I wanted to do was take out the bombing run or kill that annoying grayzone tank cycling scrub lord. I have seen many complaints about oh " there is always someone plane cycling or mass spam of tanks and planes or some guy all he did was stay in a tank or plane" nerf nerf nerf and now your saying give a penalty for those who decide to come back down to fight the ground war with foot soldiers oh noo we cant have that.
Main purpose is the plane gives me the ability to kill other planes and ground vehicle’s, as far as I’m concerned there is no other reason for me to be up there.
More options
I can jump out and tnt tanks from behind enemy lines if my bomb or rockets cant destroy the tanks.
It can also be used a like paratrooper squad with assault weapons.
All this is viable tactics and as far as I’m concerned.
Your complaint imo is not based in a factual way that is causing the game play any issues or any exploit that is being used to grief or harass players.
So in conclusion
Reasons why people suicide bomb:
-kill a tank or a plane grayzoning or plane spammer
-timed the pull out of dive wrong (happens a lot when your use to using a fighter and you go to a bomber)
-getting behind enemy lines with foot soldiers
-because I feel like it
-not sure why I got spawned in this plane when I clicked a foot soldiers squad