Seriously. You can shoot down 5+ planes and still be mid/bottom on the team for xp. There seriously needs to be a massive XP gain.
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Have you tried being more of a team player and killing more than planes?
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Considering how annoying it is with how slow flak guns turn and how hard they are to aim, and how long it takes to shoot them down, if you focus on killing planes which is actually very important because of how dangerous they are, you will be missing out on a LOT of points had you just rushed the objective and gotten a few kills.
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Have you heard of fighters?
I have one vehicle slot, and it’s not worth shooting down planes, I make more points with bombers.
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Then use bombers that have guns on them or just get on the point.
Simply sitting in an AAA gun all game isn’t going to get you top 3, that’s not how this game works, you should be getting on the point / defending the point and getting kills. (Or engineer points if you’re being a good engineer and building rallies / ammo boxes)
The point is that killing a plane gives you as much points as getting like 4 infantry kills when it should be more than that. I use my SB-2 for the biggest bombload and it’s pretty easy to get at or near the top with how powerful planes are in this game.
And capping gives you like 100 xp, it’s hardly even worth it.
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Getting one vehicle kill shouldn’t make someone with 2 kills go from 8th to 3rd above someone with like 27 kills, simply get better and actually contribute a bit more than sitting around shooting planes down all game.
If planes can catapult you to the top of the scoreboard so easily, it would make sense that killing them is a good thing and should give you more points though, a plane is not only worth 3 infantry kills.
Anything can catapult you to the top of the scoreboard with ease, I’ve hit first place over greyzone camping tanks with infantry only, you just have to learn how to do it properly, like with planes.
Planes are pretty easy to “learn” though, I never used planes because I thought they were lame, then the first time I get a few good bombing runs and now I always use bombers because it’s so easy to get huge amounts of kills.
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Infantry can do the same, get a gun, get some frags / explosion packs, and go crazy.
I pretty much just rush and throw TNT, then switch to my bombers and keep rotating that way.
I am almost guarenteed at least one free bombing run, unless a fighter is literally spawncamping, and if he is, he is missing out on massive amounts of points.
Not really. Aircraft XP rewards are fine with how fast they are killed…
Just aim right.
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Besides pilot kills, plane damage is insanely broken and needs to be fixed. Have you tried shooting down an IL2 in Moscow with a 109? Practically impossible
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Impossible? It’s quite easy. Hit their wings and snap 'em off, or just keep hitting the same wing so they can’t fly it. I don’t even need a 109 - The Henschel works fine
I barely touch Moscow Axis but it’s not that hard, I’ve done it a few times.
When the damage models get fixed, or the hit indicators, fighters will be more viable
I haven’t decided if the plane weapons are weak or the hit indicators and visuals are desynced. Probably the latter
Even in the new Stalingrad fighters will be important to stop the new bomb strike call in
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Just get closer to the planes and you won’t have as much of an issue.
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probably. I just cant help but noticed times where I can actually see the 20 mm shells exploding on the fuselage/cockpit of the plane I’m hammering but no damage. And yet other times instant kill. Must be desnyc on not only the hit indicator, but visuals aswell.
in warthunder, a split second of 20mms on a deflection shot blows the plane to bits.
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