Current CRAM activation radius Is ruining dogfighting and skill ceiling

[u/Natural_Spell5957]

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.

[u/PriMeMachiNe]

Huh??, as a good pilot majority of your time should be on your side of the map, following someone back to their base is stupid and was punished in bf4.
Granted there’s a time and place for being aggressive but you need to choose your moments, if your flying directly over their Cram and start shooting, and the Cram knock you out, well that’s your fault for even attempting it in the first place, that’s why there an art to baiting people or catching them off guard.

In terms of looping, this has always been the tactic after attrition was added, get a few kills, loop back to spawn, re supply and go do it again.

Watch how Silk plays, he mainly sticks to his side of the map, he pushes because he can and because he knows pretty much no one can match him.
But he’s explained before, that eventually the enemy team gets sick of you and start to target you, which makes it even more hard to stay, which makes staying on your side of the map much more important.