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Old 2012-05-02, 05:00 PM   [Ignore Me] #1
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AA targeting landed Aircraft?


Greetings PSU Community,

I would like to know how everyone feels about the subject of AA targeting an aircraft that has landed, or is even unoccupied.

For me, this was the most confounding aspect of AA weapons in PlanetSide (particularly flak) because it makes no sense that it would identify aircraft even if they are not airborne. It seemed like flak should explode in proximity of any vehicle regardless of its type, or otherwise that the it should only affect airborne targets that are actually in-flight.

I'd like to know how you all feel about this subject, and whether you'd like to see a change from how it was set up in the original PlanetSide.
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Old 2012-05-02, 05:10 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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Though ideologically I don't agree with it; that is none the less a very cool avatar!


Otherwise I think it's simply that way as a matter of balancing.
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Old 2012-05-02, 05:13 PM   [Ignore Me] #3
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A shell that's designed for 'air-burst' would need some kind of fuse to make it do that.

The possibilities that spring to mind are:

1. Timer fuse, so it bursts after nn seconds regardless of where its going.
2. Proximity fuse, so it would burst near anything (including the terrain).
3. Air pressure/altitude fuse, so it would burst at or above a certain height.

There would be problems with all of these in isolation, either too easy to hit too much stuff making it OP, or too hard to hit anything making it useless.

I'd go with a mix of two - probably altitude and proximity, so as to say that it will burst against aircraft, but only against aircraft flying above 50m (or whatever).

Of course, unlike reality that would be 50m above where you are, not above sea level, otherwise being infantry on a hillside would still be hazardous
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Old 2012-05-02, 07:46 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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AA should be prox fuses (it's the future, who uses a timer?) and heat seekers. No locking on unless the vehicle is turned on!

Obviously it will be tweaked for gameplay purposes.
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Old 2012-05-02, 08:19 PM   [Ignore Me] #5
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lets not forget how about missiles too, how do they find a target? heat or radar right.... (how can it find a cold jet? or one on the ground)
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Old 2012-05-02, 08:23 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Originally Posted by Unforgiven View Post
lets not forget how about missiles too, how do they find a target? heat or radar right.... (how can it find a cold jet? or one on the ground)
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Old 2012-05-02, 08:42 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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I say Dumb-Fire unless it's above radar clutter or something... basically higher than 6M or 10M smart AA kicks in.

That means flying really low becomes a valid tactic.

Maybe different types of AA would have optimum killzone height?
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Old 2012-05-02, 08:48 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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Originally Posted by DayOne View Post
AA should be prox fuses (it's the future, who uses a timer?)
Anyone who uses a proximity fuse, since any detection circuitry would involve a computer, however small, and that computer would have a clock. At which point it becomes a small software addition.
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Old 2012-05-02, 09:01 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Originally Posted by CutterJohn View Post
Anyone who uses a proximity fuse, since any detection circuitry would involve a computer, however small, and that computer would have a clock. At which point it becomes a small software addition.
But it wouldn't be used to actively set off the explosive.
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Old 2012-05-02, 11:10 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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I believe at some point in the future nothing will be able to fly over a battlefield without immediately being taken down.
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Old 2012-05-02, 11:38 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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Originally Posted by Sledgecrushr View Post
I believe at some point in the future nothing will be able to fly over a battlefield without immediately being taken down.
unless they have more advance flare systems or signal scramblers.
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Old 2012-05-02, 11:49 PM   [Ignore Me] #12
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Originally Posted by Sledgecrushr View Post
I believe at some point in the future nothing will be able to fly over a battlefield without immediately being taken down.
Which will be compensated for by flying so damned many things over its impossible to take them all down, and anyone that opens fire on the air will be immediately targeted by dozens of craft. Drones are cheap and expendable.

Future warfare is going to be both awesome and scary.


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But it wouldn't be used to actively set off the explosive.
Could be. Just a programming change and a little math.

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Old 2012-05-03, 12:20 AM   [Ignore Me] #13
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My pet peeve, is that AA flak should be able to target anything in the air, including jet packers. If feet leave the ground, they should be vulnerable to standard AA damage.

Sooo, on the inverse, they land and standard AV damage should apply to aircraft, and back to AI damaged for jetters.
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Old 2012-05-03, 01:29 AM   [Ignore Me] #14
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Originally Posted by Sledgecrushr View Post
I believe at some point in the future nothing will be able to fly over a battlefield without immediately being taken down.
Yes. When beta starts.
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Old 2012-05-03, 04:39 AM   [Ignore Me] #15
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I suppose it's a balance issue. I'm a big fan of diversity, so I'd like to see something like.. one faction have proximity flak, which doesnt do nearly as much dmg as the AA missiles of another faction, but it has a higher rate of fire and maybe even can be used against LAVs.. i.e, not against something smaller than a lightning, but with reduced dmg (I assume a lightning have thicker armor than the fighters). And the vanu that prolly have some kind of dumb fire, very high velocity, very high rate of fire energy weapon for AA, that does even less dmg but can be fired at anything that moves.. or something.
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