Either decrease the damage on allied bombing runs in Pacific, increase the damage of its machine guns or give it an air spawn because now it’s unusable - you can’t even chase the bombers unless you’re already in the air when they’re called, and when you miraculously get close enough to the bombers, either they kill you in about 5 seconds or you dump entire 1000 rounds into a single one of them and usually still don’t destroy it.
Alternatively (and that would be the best solution), give that squad another aircraft so that the grind would be bearable.
It doesn´t get any better with the Zero. It may be faster but it´s made out of oregami and has barely any autocannon ammo. Pretty lackluster fighter in comparison to stuff from other campaigns but good for Pacific.
My problem is that I’s a completionist so I want to have every squad spaded.
As for the dogfights, yes it’s good against aircraft. If you encounter one, which for me is once per day if I’m lucky - that’s another problem of fighters in Pacific - nobody plays aircraft.
I am currently done with every single squad in this game, so I get this completionist need. What I did to level up A5M4 was to play in custom Lone Fighters mode just shooting down airplanes flown by players. It wasn’t so bad there, just sometimes it’s hard to spawn in a fighter plane in this mode.
Trying to kill bombing runs overall is messed up right now. Trying to bring them down is a mess from the ground or the air, unless you have an aircraft with 20mm+ cannons. Even 12.7mm has trouble bringing them down currently.
did they nerf the japanese airborne 7mm? afaik it’s way too good for how little firepower it is, mb because it has a HE round. mb they buffed the bombers?
even if so, it’s balanced, as the buffalo can barely fly in a straight line since too heavy/weak engine.
compare to the german 7mm. even with a higher RoF, it’s much weaker.
I have all campaigns on all sites max. Levels and all squads all explored. Only the Japanese A5M4 Squad is missing to max. Level, but the grind is terrible. I’m on upgrade lvl 12, but without bombs it’s cruel.
I dont understand why the plane is include and yet so incomplete at the same time. It has the undermounts. Historically it did have the option for armament of two 30KG bombs type 99 explosives or a fuel tank. It is incredibly hard to maintain air control and ground suppression when US fighters come with 50 cals and gunners on top of the ability to carry bombs…then I have also contend with a better AA gun from engineers. The mounted 50 cal from engineer and lets not forget the GMC 13…Holy crap I die as soon as I enter the airspace. I can barely make a pass on anything at the very least let me put down couple of small bombs before im blown out of the air.
I agree I am looking all over the forums here to see what anyone is saying about this plane needing a buff with bombs. Its not asking for much either, the historical compliment is two 30KG HE Bombs…I will take that in heart beat. Specially against it US counterpart in the campaign…a Buffalo with 4 50 cals and two 100lb bombs. Adding those bombs to the A5M4 Still wont put it on par with the Buffalo in terms of dogfighting and ground suppression.
