Please give infantry Anti-air capability [ Edited ]

[Peligrad]

As a person who doesn't do much dog fighting, it is very frustrating that none of the classes have an effective means of anti-air except for the specialist and for the specialist you need to net 500 kills with him before you can unlock this. On maps like Hoth there is no cover and air craft can just terrorize everyone and there is nothing we can do about it. But air craft get to kill us in a half second with indirect fire? And the explosive radius is so huge that we can't even evade it with rolling or taking cover in most cases.

Why are there no legitimate anti-air options? The only attempt at giving infantry anti-air is the heavy's ion shot which is absolutely worthless. It can't even 1 shot an interceptor let alone a snow speeder or bomber.

At the very least there should be anti-air turret placements that we can hop on. 

My suggestion:

Infantry get an aim assist lead box when aiming at aircraft like planes get when shooting other planes.

Significantly increase ion shot's damage against air craft

1 card that makes the heavy's sentry deal ion damage that deals considerably more damage to vehicles and considerably less damage to infantry targets

Decrease the explosive radius of aircraft primary fire by 50%

Add anti-air rapid fire ion turrets on Hoth

Switch the position of the 2nd to unlock sniper rifle and the 4th to unlock sniper rifle for the specialist

[Zala-Tok]

u hv an ability that has auto tracking ion missles lol u can even shot slow flying aircraft using your mini-gun, imo u would want to be more mobile cause u'll be a sitting duck free food for everyone once u are in a fixed postion lol

[Peligrad]

@Zala-Tok wrote:

u hv an ability that has auto tracking ion missles lol u can even shot slow flying aircraft using your mini-gun, imo u would want to be more mobile cause u'll be a sitting duck free food for everyone once u are in a fixed postion lol

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The only air craft sentry is useful against is the LAAT, which isn't piloted by a player, it's just on an invisible track that makes a loop around the map. And for some reason on Theed the LAAT has way more health and you really can't take it out on that map.

And as I already mentioned the ion shot doesn't kill any of the aircraft and is easily evaded by fighters and interceptors. It is widely regarded as the single most worthless ability in the game as it isn't lethal to anything more dangerous than a tauntaun, has a ridiculous cool down for what it is, requires a lock, and the lock warns the target that it is incoming giving ample time to take cover.

[Zala-Tok]

just shoot it down mate, any class with a range weapon is able to damage the LAAT, its like a kentury shooting contest lmao, since the LAAT has an auto path i.e. it moves in a circle around the battlefield just stay clear of it's centre orbit and it's real easy to avoid getting hit.

[Peligrad]

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@Zala-Tok wrote:

just shoot it down mate, any class with a range weapon is able to damage the LAAT, its like a kentury shooting contest lmao, since the LAAT has an auto path i.e. it moves in a circle around the battlefield just stay clear of it's centre orbit and it's real easy to avoid getting hit.

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I'm not talking about LAATs. I'm talking about Snow Speeders, Bombers, Fighters, and Interceptors.

PLANES DUDE.

PLANES!!!

The ones doing strafing runs on objectives and going on 50+ player killing sprees.

I'm not sure how I can be more clear about what I am talking about...