The assault modes are a pretty fundamental foundation of war thunder. It allows players to become accustomed to newly unlocked vehicles, practice shot placement, or new weapon systems. it’s great.
Unless you are doing air assaults and your planes are between 6.7-10.7
The reason? you simply are not faster than the missiles deployed by the end tier jets. They are launched from across the map, and destroy several planes at a time. sometimes up to 80% of the wave.
It is simply unreasonable that Gaijin is content with Mach 0.5, cannon only jets to compete against Mach 2+ jets with missiles that can lock and launch from 80km away.
It’s terrible game design. Appallingly so.
I’ve been around for years, and I understand why it was done this way initially back when supersonic jets first came out. There were simply too few high tier (for the time) to sustain it’s own bracket. But that was 7 years ago.
I Understand why there may be some hesitancy on Gaijin to include more brackets. There are too few people doing Air assaults at those levels to keep wait times reasonable. I would argue, that the reason this is the case is because the majority of players below 12.0 don’t even bother joining as they know they are so underpowered, its a waste of precious time.
I bet that if there were new brackets, the numbers would jump up quite a bit.
So Gaijin, it’s time to change.
I would suggest 2-3 new brackets.
6.7-8.3. Early jets. Most without missiles of any kind
8.7- 10.7. Missiles are now common, but most if not all are rear aspect locking. The enemies here should all be prop based, evening out the playing field further.
11.0+ Long range missiles are now available, and the differences between these levels are less extreme by far.
It’s almost as if Gaijin already knows that these grouping makes sense, because thats where Rank levels also are. More people would do the air assault, fewer players would be frustrated, and everyone would win. There’s literally no downside.
So please, make this small change happen.