AA OP again?!?

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Their seems to be a cycle of this secrete AA tweaking, and were, it would seem, on yet another, I just spent the better part of the day using various AA gun’s, and while I certainly fly often, I go through phases where I use and don’t use the AA gun’s, and today was one of those days…

And either I am a much better shot than I give myself credit for, I am a decent shot with AA gun, heck how can anyone not be, and I was dropping planes left and right with them.

Being on the receiving end, I am also see a lot more Black component hits, and basically sudden death hits from the AA guns than I recall in the recent past.

I really think the game played better when it took a few hits to Cripple a plane, rather than one or two.

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Recently I played a bit with AA and I’d say results were as expected.

Small planes (fighters) were hard to hit but dropped like flies due to being compact.
Larger planes (bombers) were easier to hit but they could soak more damage.

So overall I’d say planes could get additional 10-20 % more HP but it’s not necesarry.

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I was using the AA to do the mission of destroying planes, I had some good results, I feel that in the current state of the AA it is quite good

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Yeah, tried all facion’s AA the last couple of weeks. Works beautifully … expect against air-strikes bombers.

I find them in a good state too.

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I tested them against the radioman bombers

It would be impossible to kill them all, but i killed 1 or 2

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Just glad they work again.

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I confirm.

Takes 2-3 hits only to make my planes crash, fighters, or bombers. Bombers won’t disintegrate right away, but wings get clipped easily, or they just catch fire…

AA is my biggest crashing cause at the moment, and already was before that stealth tweak.

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You think they changed it again? I didnt notice much difference as I found it capable before anyway

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I did as well, it just seems much easier to Kill with it now, and the Hits seem to be doing more damage than they did before.

These kinds of assessments are always subjective…

It just feels like they did.

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You remember back when they released bombing runs to all campaigns? At that point and onwards til the paratroopers arrived, AA was insanely powerful.

It was not even fun to fly during that period.

I believe people crying about week AA nowadays dream back to that point in time.

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It does seem like they were changed back to being good again, though without the devs saying if they have or not we won’t know exactly what was done.

I’d like to point out it suddenly got better after the big hype over the fire tank planes was getting over…

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To anyone that wants to try, The only way to get more is if you micro an engineer squad to create 2 AA, and telling an AI soldier to control the emplacement while you fire the other. That way once you fire two clips and overheat, you can insta-swap to the other to continue to fire.

Can get 3-4 if im lucky, but figured it might be a helpful idea to people.

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Not OP enough, we should go back to the Quad AA…

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Nah, just back to Quad AA, when 1 AA can kill 5 bombers

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