CV Puffy Ack

[TheRapier]

Just for curiousity's sake, how do folks feel about this? Anyone have strong feelings about the current implementation? Working/not working, ridiculous or sublime?

[Blooz]

Did something change?

It has always worked on me.

When the fleet puffy AAA starts bursting around me I turn my plane around and get out of range as fast as possible.

[TinmanX]

I don't mind the ack, gives my sub-woofer something to do and the cat just about craps itself if it happens to be laying on the thing at the time.
I do find it curious whenever by own ship auto puffy ack targets and kills me though.

[BrownBaron]

Have never been able to spend more than 2 minutes in the ack before it puffed my brains on to the wind screen or my pilot back in the tower.

[RTHolmes]

puffy ack is a funkiller, and the modelling is bs.

[The Fugitive]

I don't mind it, I just wish it hit bombers as fast and as hard as it dose fighters.

[WYOKIDIII]

I don't mind the ack, gives my sub-woofer something to do and the cat just about craps itself if it happens to be laying on the thing at the time.
I do find it curious whenever by own ship auto puffy ack targets and kills me though.

damn near fell outta my chair

[kvuo75]

puffy ack is a funkiller, and the modelling is bs.

i concur.. i think the auto puffy should be done away with altogether.. but, I would make ALL the 5" guns mannable on all the ships


the magical 3000 ft cap the auto 5" provides to the attacking cv force is tedious, especially when the cv is parked right off shore. just because of the randomness of it.

[grizz441]

It is ridiculous.

It serves a minimal realism purpose and also serves as a complete detriment to enjoyable game play at times.

I'm above 3k I'm getting pounded by puffy ack, I drop to 2.99k I'm safe.  I have the same probability of being struck directly over the carrier at 3k as I do at 25k on the fringe of its range. 

 Fix it or be done with it.

[LLogann]

Even you?  EEK

It is ridiculous.

I find puffy ack to be just fine........   And the reason for it affecting fighters so much more than buffs is simple really........  The fighter is a much more fragile target, one burst will put a fighter out of it's misery half the time while a buff will absorb 2 or 3 hits from the puffy ack.   

[MarineUS]

I am perfectly content with the puffy ack. I like it actually. I don't know why but I love flying a set of buffs through thick puffy
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[JOACH1M]

The auto puffy is  WAY to accurate it will hit you no problem at 20k-up and 10k-out

[kvuo75]

I am perfectly content with the puffy ack. I like it actually. I don't know why but I love flying a set of buffs through thick puffy
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because it rarely even does minor damage to buffs. maybe a fuel tank, occasionally an engine oil hit.

A light fighter 5 miles out at 3001ft though, he will take a flight ending hit more times than not.   out of nowhere.. nobody gets the kill, the computer killed him. usually nobody even in range to get a proxy!

I dont know about you, but i'd rather be shot down by a real person than the AI.  otherwise i could just fly offline practice near a CV and get the same result.

[Tyrannis]

i dont think theres enough flak, on the cv or field. ive sunk a total of 27 cvs simply using b25s at 4k. i see puffy ack exploding around me, but it rarely hits me, and even if it does it doesnt do enough damage for me to be worryed about it.


i think cities need an increase in flak last week i had a total of 7 milk runs over rook city, not a single ack hit. (even flew through iit twice one time).

[W7LPNRICK]

I don't mind it, I just wish it hit bombers as fast and as hard as it dose fighters.

Yes! 3 great big lumbering bombers fly over & maybe one gets hit at 5k, with three or 4- 5" manned shooting at them. One lowly fighter ducking & dodging 5" guns gets killed at 8-11k before even starting the diving run.