jabo wrote:
Think you said the same thing about Truk
Dont worry its an online setting. For the Truk event I had the arena settings way too low and I saw numerous F6Fs flying low on the deck near airfields without a scratch.
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OK, 1st off, I don't want to bitch about the Ack. and I know no one is intentionally trying to kill the strike guys. Is there a way to change offline settings to match online?
The issue I have with Ack is it makes it so it sucks to strike anything. We are trying to have it serve 2 roles, #1 protect stuff and #2 give the fighters a place to land/take off without too much "buzzing" the fields. KT was a perfect example of how us strike guys get screwed. we were having a good series attacking ports and such with the initial settings but then the low ack was being taken advantage of at the air fields and not giving any protection to the teams trying to launch/land (which I agree wasn't fair). So the Ack was cranked up to protect the fields and our entire squad got wiped out hitting a port. And I mean everyone on the 1st pass.
What I would like to see is an increase of MG's, 20mm at fields and a reduction at "other" targets. Maybe thats not realistic but it would allow the ack to serve the purpose it was meant for. I do not believe that we should be more worried about the ack than the other sides fighters in an S3 event.
As for the Truk event, yes I did bitch about the ack at 4, 5, 6 and 7 area. We did not strike
ANY land targets on the map and we never went up near those islands. We did level bomb a couple outer areas on the west but that was even at 10K. We had orders to never fly over land.
As for Malta, there is too much ack unless we are not going to strike it. I would have to say, on the south east side of the island was more ack than attacking Berlin. I don't know what the event rules are going to be, maybe we are not even attacking Malta, I will try and check out the other areas in the next couple of weeks.
Also, flying alone, offline, with all the ack, seemed like I had no frame rate issues. What is a minimal acceptable rate? I don't think I ever got below 60.