BF2S Forums What about an anti-air kit?

LOL, nice Idea but what is with them in karkand or maps without choppers or jets?

cat4ever wrote:

LOL, nice Idea but what is with them in karkand or maps without choppers or jets?

We start to take off snipers falling down from the buildings.

I think an anti-air kit would be a great idea.  On the maps without choppers and jets just don't be anti-air.

There would be a fair chance that it would create a balance problem, but there's surely a way it could be made to work.

funkstrong wrote:

[...]A good example would be taking the AT weapon away from the AT kit, and you could only kill vehicles with other vehicles and TOWs.  Thats what air vehicles are facing.

Hehe this is good.

Well Helos are balanced now i think. But planes have practically no enemies except jets and mobile AA: Take support kit, drive with your tunguska to a place where enemy ground units cant find you, GET OUT of it and wait. If a plane fliess by, give him 6 suppositories in his hot butt.  Most pilots dont use their eyes, they only rely on "the boxes" and "grey flags".

But stingers are too bad. DICE often placed them really bad: On oman the beach stingers face in the wrong direction: WHO has ever managed to shoot down a APPROACHING jet? They have to face away.

Conclusion: Stinger kit would make helos too weak, but planes would FINALLY have to FEAR SOMETHING.

A GOOD SOLUTION would be a (stationary) defense system with a relative SMALL attacking radius, but everything inside this radius that flies has to be EASY QUICK PREY. This would be fair. Planes would not attack this small AA defended points. I mean planes flying over real PATRIOT sites are dead meat.

http://www.wccsquad.com/

WCC's CoOp Mod has exactly this ... I'd give it a try if you like this idea.

jesus, you cant just add an AA kit into the game. Mobile AA's are difficult enough to find when your in a chopper, now if every tom dick and harry can shoot AA missiles out of a window how ridiculus will that be?? and dont get me started on "well in real life....."

adding an aa kit is like adding a "terminator" kit, comes with a humungus chaingun which penetrates armour and walls, also has very heavy armour. sure it would be cool for the people who were using but theres no way it can feasibly be done without destroying the very fragile balance

In my experience there is enough anti-air (stingers, linebackers, other jets/helis) it just no one uses them. There is 1 stinger site at most spawn points in maps with jets and if people bothered to man them pilots wouldnt last very long. Yes its easy to get away form 1-2 stingers from the same place but imagine 4-8 from 4 different areas, It just takes alittle bit of effort, teamwork and maybe sacrificing your life to take down a jet. And helis have no chance against that many stingers.

DrunkFace wrote:

In my experience there is enough anti-air (stingers, linebackers, other jets/helis) it just no one uses them. There is 1 stinger site at most spawn points in maps with jets and if people bothered to man them pilots wouldnt last very long. Yes its easy to get away form 1-2 stingers from the same place but imagine 4-8 from 4 different areas, It just takes alittle bit of effort, teamwork and maybe sacrificing your life to take down a jet. And helis have no chance against that many stingers.

So my whole team is sitting in stationary stinger sites while ONE guy on your team is in a plane? (BTW everyone knows WHERE those sites are but not YOUR plane since we don't even have radar).

And THAT's balanced? Hardly.

The only ones who lose would be the Helos since they are so slow. I say up their armor v. the stinger and/or lower the repair times for those that DO make it back to the helo pad.

In desert combat the anti armor (aka tank) had an anti air missile thing. But thats in BF 1942.

Dc...

aren't there enough anti air as it is? whenever I try flying I seem to get locked on pretty quick and go down even faster

Back in Novalogic's Joint Operations, The Engineer Kit had the ability to Choose what he needed. Javelins for the tank, RPG, Stingers for Helos. Tank mines. Etc.