Spotting with fighters

[Jahossi53]

It's absolutely broken. Just now I had game where our entire team where completely spotted for most of the game by an enemy Nakhimov placing out multiple fighters simultaneously. How are DD:s supposed to their job when they're being spotted for the first crucial minutes of the game? All caps had to be surrendered to the other team since anyone approaching them got lit up by enemy BBs and cruisers hiding behind islands or outside spotting range. Allied cruisers and close range BBs like the Italian and German ones are prevented from closing the distance, especially in an uptier and any cruiser dumb enough attempting to shoot down the fighters gets instakilled by the campers in the back. And even if they manage to shoot it down another one will just replace it. And this is without mentioning that all this game breaking [edited] takes almost no effort for the CV player to do, especially in a Russian carrier with its "fire and forget" attack mode. 

 

I sometimes play CVs and can tell you that they are already powerful as it is. At least spotting with rocket planes takes a little effort. I think most would agree that there's still a lot of balancing that needs to be done with carriers but removing the ability for CVs to spot with fighters would be a good start at least. 

[Karkong_the_Impaler]

 

We know. Eveyone knows. There is just a bug in the spreadshit WG uses to determine balance. That and someone higher up likes to play them, so this is by design. Just look at the the 100000 post trash heap thread:

 

Please note that this is not the first of these...

[Miscommunication_dept]

Plane spotting is broken. WG thinks that minimap only spotting would confuse players though so they are uninterested in changing it.

[Captain_Breeze]

When the enemy CV drops fighters/spotters at the caps try and go to the edges. You don't need to cap straight away, the game is 20 mins.

 

Of course these planes do have a negative effect on a dd's game play, but I don't see WG doing anything about it.

[Gulag_Knife_Frenzy]

Have they ever trialled minimap only on the PTS?

[Karkong_the_Impaler]

Just now, Gulag_Knife_Frenzy said:

Have they ever trialled minimap only on the PTS?

They thought about it but it was rejected, god knows why. It's probably the guy higher up who is enjoying his favourite class, throwing a wrench in the gears of those who want to remove the rollator walker. So as far as I understood, they're thinking about another solution.

 

@Seraphice It's been a while, again - any news on this?

[Seraphice]

42 minutes ago, Karkong_the_Impaler said:

They thought about it but it was rejected, god knows why. It's probably the guy higher up who is enjoying his favourite class, throwing a wrench in the gears of those who want to remove the rollator walker. So as far as I understood, they're thinking about another solution.

 

@Seraphice It's been a while, again - any news on this?

Unfortunately I don't have an update on any new tests regarding CV spotting, however it should be noted, that ideas don't get canned just because someone higher up likes playing them. That is certainly not the case. such closed tests are conducted by testing groups such as ST, CST and WG and consequently all the data and feedback is taken into account to see if this is a viable solution.

 

Fair seas captain!
~Sera

[bobtherterrible]

Here's a hot tip for you:

• Turn off your aa
• Turn on your spotted by air circle on the minimap
• Use that to stay out of spotting range of aircraft

[bobtherterrible]

7 hours ago, Jahossi53 said:

I sometimes play CVs

Then I read this bit