How do you fight what you cannot see?

[Vraciu]

Kinda like the unseen vulcher at 10k diving to take you out just before wheels up, or flaring landing a dead stick. Frustrating isn't it ? They're just pixels, you just up another one.

I haven't logged in for a couple of months, but see I haven't missed anything.

Unseen because you didn’t look.     As mentioned, there’s a difference in not seeing as opposed to being UNABLE to see...

[rvflyer]

I miss the days when you could drive a M3 to a base half way across a sector without a spawn and not be detected by a stupid GV dar.

[BOBO]

I miss the days when you could drive a M3 to a base half way across a sector without a spawn and not be detected by a stupid GV dar.

+1 Gazillion

[Vraciu]

I miss the days when you could drive a M3 to a base half way across a sector without a spawn and not be detected by a stupid GV dar.

I do, too, because GVs had icons visible beyond six feet back then.

[waystin2]

I do, too, because GVs had icons visible beyond six feet back then.

Truth.  The icons still need to be increased slightly.  The Bush ninja stuff is ridiculous.

[lunatic1]

 

Re: How do you fight what you cannot see?

« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2018, 07:56:48 AM »


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The game's always been about air and ground combat. It's just that the low player numbers accentuate the ground game, and I suspect the steep ACM learning curve serves to sway new players towards tanks, ground guns, etc.

plus the hoarding and vulching and picking which I know is part of the game-new players will not know this

[lunatic1]

Hold on wait a minute, I never have seen or heard of or killed Fess in or with a tank, so he must me talking about the sin of bomb****ing a tank which I do and so do not complain or gripe about when it is done to me

[lunatic1]

I think i read somewhere one of bustr's reports that he is making it easier for gvs to fire on a base.
and Bustr if you show your maps and tell descriptions here i will hunt you down.

[lunatic1]

Vehicles need to leave tracks on the ground!!!

or you can turn your external sounds up and internal sounds down a little and listen for the engines.

[lunatic1]

Exactly.

If I wanted to die via some invisible menace, I'd take the batteries of of my carbon monoxide detector.

quiet you don't even GV

[lunatic1]

I speak Verbosity and I can translate for you.
Most of the maps were made long ago when we had 400 plus players every night.
Be patient. More maps are on the way that are better suited for the lower numbers we currently see in the M.A.

 

maybe we will have some in this decade

and no bustr I am not going to make a map- I don't have the knowledge, the hardware or software or an imagination or the will to do so.

we have 11 maps now 14 in AH2 would it not be faster to redesign the maps on file then design new ones, <-- I say this because I don't know what I'm talking about right?

sorry Bustr just finished reading your 1st page post.. in my opinion the 3 best terrains/maps for gv fights were compello-V85-V88-V77-and SMPizza there was more open space in the valleys for epic gv fights A44 on I believe its on the grinder map has the best open field gv fights now.

[lunatic1]

the more I read I don't think Fess is talking about himself in a gv-he wants it to be eaiser to bomb a gv

[lunatic1]

I for one have no problem with finding GVs. I find the gv dar tidius at best. Looking for a GV is a part that give the game depth. It gives you something other to do than fighting the best aces. On the flip side while being in a gv it's exciting to not get spotted.

If we keep dumbing down the game I might as well go start playing warthunder with a mouse...

Cheers,
DutchVII

dutch is right--there needs to be a balance in the ground game--but Fess's post and others over the last few years is why we now have GV dar- its become all about bomb****s not finding or having a hard time finding gvs. I am a bomb**** and I also gv a lot, then only time I mind getting bombed is when I'm trying to get to town to save it. other then done I have no problem getting bombed-I expect it when I'm in a tank-gving needs to be a little difficult or it will be like world of tanks.

when I started playing AH2 I was raised in tanks-Panzer4-H mostly. after 1st or 2nd year I was landing anywhere between 800 to 1200 gv kills per tour. now I'm lucky to land 500 but only because I fly fighters a lot and sometimes bombers. but also in AH2 there were less tree's and more open spaces, gv'ing while still fun for me now it was more fun in AH2.

if Bustr or 8thjinx<--which is primerally a gv'er want bigger hotter gv fights then low hill less trees open spaces is the answer my opinion though

[lunatic1]

I can buy a GV shutdown and having its icon become invisible to most aircraft.  I think the better solution is to increase the ability of the Storch to find shut down vehicles via icons.  It adds a realistic aspect to the game by forcing coordination between the Storch and other air/ground assets.  As it currently stands the Storch cannot combat the gaming flaw of hiding by a certain type of terrain.  I for one have spent quite a bit of time in a Storch fruitlessly searching for someone, such a Ezpkns, who knows how to exploit the terrain flaw.
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1 answer to that is get a rear seater.  4 eyes are better than 2-and yes you can have another player join you in the gunner position to help search-I have done it. it doesn't always work but it helps

[Devil 505]

quiet you don't even GV

I don't GV anymore. I have done it and did not like the experience.