With much ado about new Air game modes lately, I’ve been sitting on an idea for a while.
For me, I’m not the best shot in the world but where I do seem to have a real knack is in the manoeuvring element of dogfighting. Currently this element of dogfighting is almost punished just by the clusterfook nature of air battles. what do I mean? …Third Party-ing!
The amount of times I’ve gotten someone on my 6, I pull up, we’re now in a rolling scissors, I get them out in front, we’re now in a turn fight with me on his 6, I just need a little more lead to get the gun on them, I’m bout to get it when a teammate out of nowhere claps them. This, imo, is the most infuriating thing in all of War Thunder and it happens all the time.
It’s one thing to point out problems and another to come up with solutions and a I think I have an Idea. 1v1 Duals.
I don’t imagine you could do actual 1v1 lobbies so instead do Air RB or even Bullet Hell size lobbies and make each match a tournament.
Here’s how it would work. You spawn in a head on, straight into the merge but spawn protected until you pass one another, once you’ve passed one another, have at it!
As far as I’m aware, IRL pilots get 3 minutes when training dogfights so maybe make each bracket 3 minutes to get a kill. Get a kill early and you get to spectate the duel, the winner of which, you’ll face next.
If everyone’s duelling in the same match, how do you manage that? Simple. Just don’t render them. Everyone else is there in the same match, just you can’t see, hear or interact with them. From you’re POV, it’s just you and your opponent.
You could do is random spawn points. Seen as Air maps are huge, you and your opponent could spawn in a head on anywhere on the map. You could spawn to 40k feet, you could spawn at down in a valley, you could spawn out over the sea. As long as you don’t spawn in a head on with mountain.
You could do so many variations of this, full load out, guns only, 1v1s, 2v2s etc.
This is what War Thunder could be:
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