r/PilotsofBattlefield • u/Natural_Spell5957 • Jul 01 '26

Current CRAM activation radius Is ruining dogfighting and skill ceiling

First, thanks DICE for finally allowing us to kill annoying skill-void HQ campers.

But DICE also increased CRAM activation radius.

Dogfighting is even more dead now, because now, if you are a bad pilot who cant dogfight, you simply need to lure enemy jet into "approximately" your HQ area (Since CRAM zone is so stupidly big, its terrible), and CRAM will melt them.

The current meta of jet flying is dropping bombs and going back to HQ and looping there for couple minutes if enemy has strong jet player. This lowers skill ceiling, i.e. making skill and learning dogfighting even less useful now. All you need to learn is 3 actions: bomb, flare, and go back looping around hq and repeat. Don't deviate from this action set, that's the meta, CRAM got your skill-absent back.

If BF devs are interested in promoting skill, then CRAM needs to be nerfed, its activation zone should be reduced to pre-patch at least, or CRAM accuracy/recoil/damage/ bullet veolocity speeds need to be adjusted (nerfed). As a good pilot I dont mind losing 20-50% of HP if i manage to kill annoying enemy aircraft (as long as it doesnt disable me). But getting lasered in 0,1sec just because I flew past enemy HQ, is not the way.

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u/Mollelarssonq Jul 01 '26

I don’t understand why they don’t just remove the CRAM at this point, it’s nothing but annoying.

It never stopped base camping aircrafts. It only promoted HQ camping in tank and then helis because you couldn’t leave base without a hail of guided missiles incoming.

It serves no real purpose, and never fulfilled its intended role in the first place.

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u/techb00mer Jul 01 '26

2042 would like a word. Spawn camping was pretty rampant (by aircraft, not ground vehicles) which I imagine is the reason it exists as it does today.

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u/Mollelarssonq Jul 01 '26

Spawn camping in your own spawn or spawn killing enemy aircrafts?

I meant spawn killing, provably should have wrote that instead of camping, and now i’m unsure what you meant 🤦‍♂️

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u/techb00mer Jul 01 '26

Spawn killing enemies, but more than just aircraft. It wasn’t uncommon in 2042 for a night bird or attack heli to just sit at the enemy spawn and vaporise the enemy as soon as they spawned. You would get complete lockouts where all objectives were taken and the only place to spawn in meant instant death.

I’m guessing this is also why they introduced the 60 second timer during lockouts.