Anti Air Turrets Destroying Me

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Aside from not flying at all - is there a way to avoid these anti air turrets (in the burning sands specifically)?

One volley, in about 1 second killed me - so it did over 1,056 damage almost instantly... pretty crazy

Edit: Not only that, but I saw an anti air missile headed towards me so I stopped flying and began to block. Honest to God, the missile WAITED for me to stop blocking before hitting me. I literally spent maybe 20 seconds blocking and unblocking, moving further away, and it would stop heading towards me when I blocked - and resumed when I unblocked. Now THAT is pretty crazy

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Aside from not flying at all - is there a way to avoid these anti air turrets (in the burning sands specifically)?

One volley, in about 1 second killed me - so it did over 1,056 damage almost instantly... pretty crazy

Edit: Not only that, but I saw an anti air missile headed towards me so I stopped flying and began to block. Honest to God, the missile WAITED for me to stop blocking before hitting me. I literally spent maybe 20 seconds blocking and unblocking, moving further away, and it would stop heading towards me when I blocked - and resumed when I unblocked. Now THAT is pretty crazy

That's what I call a SMART missile. :cool:

Seriously, though, not flying is really your best option around anti-air installations. At least until you've disassembled them up from the ground.

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Anti-air should never do enough damage to be a worry.
The only Anti-Air in the Desert is around Area 51, right?
Isn't that a level 24 area?
With level 24 AA guns?
That do thousands of damage?

/Radman

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There are several AA in the desert (the valley to the NE of the starting base - one in particular is on the mountain with a hatch on the top) and a few in Canada around the low-level installations.

For some reason at the end of beta they were "significantly" boosted/over-boosted. Destroying the AA installations is mostly pointless as they respawn too quickly - but you can fly around them once you know where they are, and ranged characters can apparently destroy the missiles (blocking may also work?).

But for new players, it is practically instant death.

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Live and learn I say. I got whacked by one, then I started avoiding them.