Suicide plane cycling

For those that don’t know if you have 3 CAS planes in a lineup you can endlessly cycle through them while suiciding every run. This is particularly abusable by defending teams on invasion as they don’t give a shit about the ticket loss from doing this. Though point hungry players with disregard for their teams tickets will also do this anyways.

Why suicide CAS? Well it saves you around a minute between dropping payloads, which is massive. You don’t have to fly back, and you aren’t low energy leaving rearm. It effectively triples the amount of times you can drop bombs. There is really no counter to this, as air spawns are close enough that 9/10 you wont be bothered by enemy fighters until its too late.

Something has to be done to vehicle spawns to stop this, incentivize not suiciding, and incentivize actually bothering to go back to rearm etc. It also makes the fighter role more useless than it already is.

Locking players from spawning planes for X minutes after killing themselves would go a long ways. This should count for deaths caused by some random person hitting your plane once with 9mm and getting credit for your suicide.

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Just to note: most of the time I see this tactic being implemented on offense, not defense.
I surmise the reason for this is that it ties back to what we are seeing with players quitting out of games “they don’t like”. Those very same players often are the ones that only play offense games. They are trying to meta game through and through.
Meanwhile, (at least on CONSOLE) majority of the players that actually try to play on defense attempt to stay alive longer.

Just an observation that may help down the line with your suggestion.

I’ve made various suggestions in the past. The most likely to succeed being:

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The p47 spam is too large

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The P47 is spammed like it is because HVARs are still in many cases ignoring terrain entirely, allowing players to kill through walls and other hard cover. I’ve seen them land on top of bunkers and kill everyone inside and break all the fortifications.

I’ve noticed it with some of the German rockets too as of late.

I think if that got addressed, we would see a significant drop in the rocket plane usage, especially for kamikaze spam.

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10 of those things,6 50 cals,and a 500 pounder,all with good speed for a bomber…and they call it balanced

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Japanese have to deal with the BR4 fighter that has a bunch of them plus 4x 20mm too. Needless to say it is ALWAYS a massacre.

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And they think giving BR5 to japan with only that stupid open top TD against P47s and 76s and pershings and 1919s is going to be balanced, its going to be 10 times worse

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This should only be for Premium players since they are the only ones with the ability to cycle planes.

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Oh, I have played a match against Sternlos and he did a plane cycling of two attackers and one fighter for the whole match, I would say that we lost because of this, but to be honest we lost because our team was rubbish, the plane cycling was fun to watch and kind of a free points only for shooting at it.

AA vehicles should be the solution to this

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not really. plane would still be able to unload its payload just to be killed when he would have suicided instead.

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Ya I do it because its brain off and I really just want to finish grinding out stuff for BRIII Germany. I made this thread because it feels extremely scummy, and something that shouldn’t be possible in the game. It abuses premium/slots and old campaign squads, its not a fighter but 3 CAS squads for germany Ju188+fw190 D12+bf110 over and over again. I can only imagine how much more punishing it is as americans.