No Radar on AA vehicles?

[imported_Rafterman]

Did a search for this and came up with a lot of posts (275), but most were about UAV etc. So apologies if this has been asked before.

Given the lethality of air assets in this game and the absolute horrid state of AA effectiveness -- both with cannons and missles -- why then is there no radar on the AA vehicles? Perhaps if you had some idea where the threat was going to be coming from, you might have a better chance of stopping it.

I don't know how many of you guys played DC, but two of my favorite vehicles were the Shilka and the Vulcan -- not only for AA, but the radar made it very effective against ground targets as well (you had to find a hill though).

I'm just wondering why radar was left off of the AA vehicles in BF2. My only thought is that someone figured that it might be redundant with the UAV function?

[DLWebmaestro96]

Re: No Radar on AA vehicles?

I think being in an aircraft and not having RADAR to at least be able to see the other aircraft is suspect. Of course, there is a lot of low flying, and I guess DICE could not engineer a RADAR system good enough to filter out all the ground noise...

But that would only really affect look-down, shoot-down capabilities.

[Vasquez]

Re: No Radar on AA vehicles?

This is an easy one to answer. If the AA had radar, it would be semi-effective. Compare that response with official EA propaganda:

"EA does not condone effective Anti-Aircraft machinery. Any player seen successfully using AA will potentially have their accounts banned and expect visits from men in black suits with large black briefcases."

[DLWebmaestro96]

Re: No Radar on AA vehicles?

:laugh: