Precursor: This is NOT about gameplay in air realistic and if bombers should or should not be played or burden the team or whatever, or the Ju288 and her dog. This is not about RP or grinding the trees one way or another. This is not about SL.
This is about SCORE. The thing that decides placement in scoreboard.
As of today, you will have to invest way more time into completion of air events than was needed before. Successful low tier ARCADE base bombers no longer generate high scores. So gone are the days when you could relax in low tier base bombing to get your score in just a few matches.
Bright side: Score events become even less attractive.
I did not see any notification of the change. Did I miss it or was it a stealth nerf?
Edit: This will also affect daily arcade air tasks that relate to score or team placement. It could well turn arcade into the same sad TDM mode that realistic already is.
3 Likes
There were nerfs to base bombing with unguided rockets and iirc airfield destroying in ASB.
I don’t recall any nerfs to normal base bombing in ARB/ASB but i could have missed something
2 Likes
The nerf likely happened today. Three days ago, it was not present. I don’t know if it was applied to realistic too, I havent tried. But in low rank arcade, score has been cut by about 60% or so.
1 Like
No you just need more than the 20000 score it used to be. Bombing points did not change to my knowledge?
I am talking about the mission score generated, not the event score total. If the mission score gets reduced, you need to grind longer for the event, no matter what the event requirement is.
1 Like
Huh. Anyway if bombing gets nerfed it’s a good change in my eyes.
1 Like
Why is it a good change? Let me guess, you’re a fighter purist?
2 Likes
I don’t think so. If low tier bombing gets nerfed, what else can you do to pick up score? Low tier seal clubbing? Not sure if that is good.
2 Likes
Gets rid of people baserushing in every aircraft and dragging my team into the dirt. I’m unhappy with braindead “grinders” killing Air RB.
Play basically any fighter and win games with lots of kills. It’s easier in ranks 7 and 8 because of multipliers and faster games.
1 Like
Oh boo hoo, how dare someone grinds the tech tree without your expressed permission. I’ll remember to dogfight in a B-29 just for you.
2 Likes
Did you read the “arcade” word? It wasn’t easier in rank 7 and 8. Havent tried if the score is reduced up
there too.
And just to clarify, when I talk about successful base bombing I talk about winning the match via air base destruction in ARCADE. You don’t do that by base rushing.
2 Likes
Anything that stops the B25/Ju288 spam in ASB during air events is a good thing in my book.
Ju-288 makes 5.0-6.0, 5.3-6.3, 5.7-6.7 and 6.0-7.0 lobbies unplayable when it happens. B25 isn’t that bad, but it’s still a very annoying plane.
(Honestly, sim losing its event multiplier over RB would be nice to avoid these periodic 2 weeks of locust swarms.)
2 Likes
You are aware there are other aircraft… Right?
I still don’t see why people insist on complaining about their bombers being bad event grinders when there are people giving you other options and the aircraft are right there in your tech tree?
1 Like
My God, I forgot how pathetic this community can be. “How dare someone bomb in MY game!” Like seriously, how pathetic are you that people just trying to grind out their tech trees fast and efficiently offend you? “But they’re in a fighter, they should be fighting” and? Some people don’t want to sweat 24/7 just to get miniscule amount of points. Bombing is easy and gets you where you need to faster. I could care less, just more elims for me. I would rather have a team of base bombers than have a team of kill hungry losers that get me TKd because I shot a round near his target.
“But the bomber spam” well blame Gaijin for that one. I could care less about a B-29 vs Ju-110 spam, because they are just trying to grind a game. Want a fighting comp, go play Tournaments.
1 Like
Low tier bombers were actually great event grinders. And you could grind the event very quickly without clubbing any seals. Gaijin turned low tier bombers into bad event grinders as of today.
And yes, there are other options to get less score, like clubbing.
1 Like
Ju-288 makes entire lobbies unplayable.
I don’t mind bombers.
The Ju-288 i mind. (and mind the b25 somewhat)
No, I’m saying I could care less about people base bombing, unlike you, of course. It’s quick and efficient to get up the tech tree and to avoid parts of the tech tree that are less than desirable. Call it a skill issue all you want, but I could care less if my team is base bombing, because it leaves more elims out for me. In all honesty, I base bomb in Sim, because it generates me plenty of money.
1 Like
Bombing is SLOWER. You get lower rewards, it’s less enjoyable, you lose more games and die more often. Easy 1800+ points per game average (before multipliers!!) by just killing enemy aircraft.
1 Like
This is about efficient ways to do events. Gaijin just removed a very efficient way from arcade. So please, stay on topic!
3 Likes
Sweaty losers that TK because you didn’t bring in a loadout that they approve of make this game unplayable to me, in my opinion.