Technically you could also play lone fighters. Non-infantry didn’t have much impact even before the changes and now people are also somewhat paranoid about using explosives. It’s especially true for the airplanes. Way too easy to get team kills, and then there’s no marker for where to rearm (lol). Truly amazing how much all this affects the game in terms of tactics and moment to moment gameplay.
I say “technically” because that game mode is still a mess and is overrun by bots. I suppose that means it’s a 24/7 stand-in for the second method. Just don’t expect to get any experience there. Personally I get 1.5-3K campaign experience per match (and I tend to be in top 3 of my team).
This isnt a solution since 1) it doesnt stop the constant CAS spam regardless of how many you kill 2) even going after them they can easily do one bombing run before they die
Step 3 to guarantee 100% less CAS spam: Play Lone Fighter.
Seeing as there is friendly fire on in that mode, no one dares take the chance of dropping bombs with the kill zone being that wide, you’ll be team killing for weeks.
I’ve only seen one guy use a plane and he would just strafe very ineffectively with his cannons, I think he fired rockets once or twice, but one cant afford doing so because the splash damage is so high you’ll almost always team kill.
Team kill too much and you get the boot out the game.
This! And when there is no more enemy planes, you always have a bonus suicide run to try to destroy some of enemies tanks - for teamplay! Then you find out, that you can do last attack more effectively by flying light bomber, not much of air2air capabilities lost. But sometimes there is no tanks, and you crash into some fortification - your are so good for your team! Once you spot tank at last moment after droping some of bombs, not much was wasted, so many cockroaches smashed. Next time being carefull: first safe drops, suicide later… much later after few… few dozens of rearms. Occasionlly there is some unskilled fighter tries to revenge for your unstopable world domination, and he will go down, when you spawn second bomber. Such a fool! But soon, he will learn. Soon, he will discover true powers of a dark side…
And when I write it here in forums, people tell me that “you can’t kill them all, allways will appear more bombers!!”
The truth is when I kill a couple of them, some of them return as fighters, but no more bombers. And if you kill a couple of fighters, no more enemy planes flying while I’m flying