Hiho,
today I played Operation Cobra and the map was dominated by aircraft again. Neither the Allied nor the German Flak could do shit to keep the skies clean. With low caliber Flak I mean the German 20mm on the Opel Blitz, the 20mm quad versions and the allied quad .30 cals.
First I was flying around in a FW190 and took several hits from an allied anti air halftrack. It only took away around one third of my health bar despite hitting me for a duration of about 3 seconds.
After being shot down and the allied aircraft raping the airfield and trainstation as so often, I decided to take the Sdkfz 7 with the quad gun. There were about 20 "engagements"/ aircraft passing by in the 12 or so minutes I was alive and I managed to get 1 kill and 1 assist in total. Despite hitting several planes for quite a long time, the only thing I managed, was to get some of them smoking. The Opel Blitz didn´t manage to do any better. In previous versions using the Flak promised far better results. Also aiming seems to have changed... I´m not totally sure about this, but imo. you have to aim differently to previous versions and aim a lot further in front of your target to hit it.
It seems that often the shots bounce. All i get is some explosion effects on my targets, but they continue flying as if nothing had happened. Why is that? I already heard that the anglemod also applies to aircraft, but as it seems it´s exaggerated.
I think the ineffectiveness of anti aircraft guns has become quite an annoyance - especially on Operation Cobra.
Your thoughts?