I have come back after some time to Enlisted, and bomber spam is still a thing? I wonder when they will force people to land on airstrips, because this is ludicrous, even an absolute noob can get 100 kills per battle, especialy when i see that players dont care about bombers anymore, doesnt matter what side i play, most of players just let themselfs get killed and dont even try to stop those players.
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nobody wants counter to planes because it can damage pilot mains point gain.
maybe they could at least triple the spawn distance for airplanes, to like 10km, while keeping the shot refill areas, so that it wont be worth going for revenge suicide kill runs, crashing into the enemy tanks.
And then if we had good AA guns, shooting down planes would make the enemy pilots suffer from long āfly back to the battlefieldā respawn.
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Well, if they want to play planes, they should play WT, not Enlisted.
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Countering bombers is too much of an hassle.
Iāve been on both side, doing the groundpounding and receiving it / trying to counter it.
Doing it is very easy, very rewarding, worst come to worst you get shot down and try again 3 squads later.
Countering it requires you to either :
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Build an AA, only with your engie squad, useless 95% of the time because you can only threaten a plane during its bombing run. If by some miracle you pull it off you will get 200 points. If you get killed you have to cycle back to your engie squad, which can take some time
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Spawn in a plane. Need to be a slot available, need to spot it, shoot it down, while not hard it takes time, for a 200 points reward instead of using your rockets to rack up dozen of kills.
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We need an AA that does itās job. Iād rather have it being unable to depress below 15Ā° (making it useless against infantry) if it had a better traverse, rate of fire and ammo pool.
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Rearming in the air should be slower (put the point further, time-out the plane during a virtual rearming, whatever it takes), currently you can do a bombing run every 2 minutes or so.
( rihardo456 i mistakenly replied to you, was intended to reply to OP)
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A simple solution for the devs would be to make that 6 squads laterā¦ pilots would think twice before suicide bombing without any second thoughts. Fighters would also become the anti bomber heroes they are supposed to be.
Yeah, just yesterday i had battle, where i shot down one bomber, and instantly there was second one. What bothers me most is that its no skill, easy kills. Even worst player in world can be godly in plane, that shoudnt be, it should be skill depend weapon.
Imo, easiest solution would be to turn off mouse aim, soo players would have to use keyboard to fly plane, then it woudnt be that easy and at least player would have to put some efort in order to play them.
Fighter planes would then have much more trouble shooting them down.
Doing a bombing run with only keyboard is easy, because your target is static, you only need to align with it, however tracking an airplane would be much harder, and this would increase bomber survivability.
I dunnoā¦ I oftentimes use keyboard for better control of my plane. But it wouldnāt work, because thereās console users with controllers (wich can also be used on pc) wich would make banning mouse control pointlessā¦
Thats true, as i dont use it, i didnt think of that.
Donāt you have a slot for fighter aircraft?
I do, i shot them down, but my teammates just dont care about it. And i dont want to play fighter all the time tbh, i play Enlisted because of intantry, not because of tanks or planes.
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yes. CAS still dominates the battlefield and 1 or 2 people farm the other side for hundreds of kills. Itās utterly broken.
Plane damage models are still utterly broken too so AA is extremely ineffectual.
Yep, models are real shit, i once emptier all of my ammo from Bf-109 to Lightning, and he still been flying around like nothing happends. And bombers are even worse, they can take huge damage its not even funny.
Yeah most of the people I play with have had similar experiences with either the aircraft tanking ground or air fire.
Hell, I shot a plane with an HE tank shell and it survived, flew off and continued to kill everything.
I shoot plane with smg when they are to close to the land half of the time if they are cas im able to kill them
I agree some planes are flying tanks, but I must say, I shoot planes 2 times with a tank and both planes went down
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I donāt believe this will change soon somebody very high in the company has an bomber altar somewhere in his house and lights a candle before he sleeps. 
I like to counter bombers with fighters. Especially on campaigns Iāve maxed already. I do it pretty often, but Iām not the best pilot to be honest. I can usually shoot down the bombers, but it takes me a while to find them, unless I catch them attacking the point. I usually lose when dogfighting another fighter unless I get the jump on them. Most of the time I do it after a squad or 2 get wiped by a bomber and I see in the respawn screen the fighter slot is available.
I think its less about not getting points during the game. Because if the bomber is really wiping players every time they try to capture a point, like everyone complains about, theyāre missing out on potential points by dying over and over anyways. When you can just jump in a fighter for 2 min shoot down the bomber, crash and go back to infantry grind. I think the issue is, most people donāt even bring fighters to the battle. It seems like most people that donāt have a bunch of premium extra squad slots bring tanks or bombers instead.
Playing a fighter can also be boring if they canāt find the enemy plane, or the fighter doesnāt have bombs or rockets for ground strikes. Or if the player is bad at hitting stuff with rockets or small bombs.
Problem with this is that, if you shoot him down, and then just jump to infantry again, there will be another funker that will be just droping bombs and farm free kills. Iām often forced to play fighter soo our team doesnt lose in 2 minutes if battle. And tbh im pretty tired of it, especialy when i shot down like 4 planes, and they just keep coming and i cant even play infantry i like to.