Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

[DrMcleod]

Maps with Aircraft Carriers, such as Wake Island are really great fun, but the lack of decent AA defence for the Carrier basically cripples the US team unless they can cap a ground base within the first two minutes of the game.
After that, the Carrier deck becomes a playground for artillery and enemy aircraft.

The Phalanx AA Turret basically sucks, the AA missiles are as useless as the Stinger emplacements and the Cannon is laughably weak. That thing should tear an enemy jet to pieces in a second, instead enemy jets can go head to head with the emplacement with their cannons and win.
C'mon EA, just increase the AA Cannon damage by a factor of 10 and make the AA missiles a bit more effective.

[imported_Sin317]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

first : there are 2 AA towers on carriers (i wonder why i never see anyone in the turret on the bridge ...) and b) i dont know about you , but i tear apart anything coming near the carrier with it ina matter of seconds.

[aircadet]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

Is there even a second one?? Man, I must have been blind!

[imported_Sin317]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

i truly think tht 95% of people actually ignore the very existing of the second one.

[Sir. bzb]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

Is there even a second one?? Man, I must have been blind!

Yeah, thats the second boom you hear behind you after watching the deck turret turret go up, i thought it was an echo to start with.

Planes would have to be doing about 2mph to stand a chance of shooting them down, or have both turrets working together, fast mooving dive bombers simply arnt in range long enough to hurt a worthwhile amount.
Little point in using the missiles as it is from the carrier, i seem to have more chance of hitting friendlys

[Eden]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

first : there are 2 AA towers on carriers (i wonder why i never see anyone in the turret on the bridge ...) and b) i dont know about you , but i tear apart anything coming near the carrier with it ina matter of seconds.

Actually I believe there supposed to be Phalanx CIWS because that's what the look like. (bad investigative work on Dices part).

The Phalanx CIWS is not an anti aircraft system, its an anti-missile system.

in other words it shoots down missiles, not aircraft.


Phalanx CIWS

[Eden]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

To add, the Phalanx CIWS is not manualy operated, it does have an operator but they only control the systems options. (hold fire, open fire, on/off etc)

Radar Subsystems

The CIWS has two radars that work together to engage targets. The first radar is the search radar, located inside the dome on the weapon control group (top of the white painted portion). The search radar does exactly that - searches for any targets and takes note of which direction they are traveling, how fast, their exact position and other information. When the search radar identifies a potential target (see details below), the mount moves to face the target and then hands over the target to the track radar. The track radar is an "orange peel"-style radar that is more precise, but can only view a much smaller area. The track radar observes the target until it decides when the optimum opportunity to fire is, and then depending on the operator conditions, it will fire automatically or will recommend fire to the operator.

[The Skugg]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

see new Patch update. All air craft are getting reduced hit points and all AA is getting an improvement.

[wattsfox43]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

Actually I believe there supposed to be Phalanx CIWS because that's what the look like. (bad investigative work on Dices part).

The Phalanx CIWS is not an anti aircraft system, its an anti-missile system.

in other words it shoots down missiles, not aircraft.

well.. in that respect.. I think it is the best working item in the game. I don't belive I have ever seen the aircraft carriers sunk by a missle.

[Eden]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

well.. in that respect.. I think it is the best working item in the game. I don't belive I have ever seen the aircraft carriers sunk by a missle.

I should say that when attacking a ship normally anti-ship missiles are used. The Phalanx CIWS and Goalkeeper CIWS also target just about any other type off missile, artillery shell, seegull etc.

I would love to see EA make the Phalanx realistic, if it is able to destroy a missile just imagine the damage it would do to an aircraft thats 15x bigger.

[PunisherUK]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

I would love to see one of those AA guns take down a plane in real life, I bet it only needs one missile.

[Donkey]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

Yeah DICE messed up a whole bunch of subtleties in this game

[ACE_FIN1972]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

Hi all,

My oppinnion is that there should be a some kind of radar to protect the ship. It totally sucks when playing in the anti-air turret when u never know which direction the attack is coming, and when u see the craft, it's more or less too late because every good pilot knows where the target is and first they distroy the defence. After that it's quite easy to rape the deck with hardware. If u can predict from where the plane is coming it would be more balanced fight.

I agree that all anti-air hardware accuracy should be improved a little. At least so thet when the lock is on, those damn missiles should not go to other targets (like own helos). They should hit or miss, that's it!

[eggy]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

I agree with the fact good pilots can take out one turret on approach at high speed, but its a different matter if the two turrets are manned with decent players. Bit of team work goes a long way (not knowing the second tower exists doesn't really help much lol)

[rombaft]

Re: Aircraft Carrier AA defence needs a massive buff

there are indeed two AA sites on the carier , against jets they lack some acuracy , but I think the patch will change this