Gaijin, hear me out.
When people speak about this its usually one of two camps.
Camp 1: We hate it, get rid of it, we hate big maps, all we want to do is merge into a furball, get kills and a dopamine rush, then go back to the hangar to grind trees as fast as possible.
Camp 2: We want bigger maps, a more sim like feeling and experience, where our strike aircraft, bombers, and fighters have more to do.
So we have the Enduring Confrontaton maps in the rotation for Air RB, but does it feel good at the moment? No. Both camps feel unsatisfied with it.
My proposed Solution:
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Remove all EC maps from Air RB rotation.
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Create ARB-EC as a dedicated game mode, similar to how Naval has theirs. The game mode contains only EC maps on rotation. The game mode will run with SIM BR brackets in their rotation. The Game mode will function identical to sim (spawns, cost to bring out planes, Sim Spotting friendlies only at close range, multiple runways, objectives, activity rewards the same as SIM, ticket amount, lobby timers, including a minimum of 2 per side to start the match.) save for the use of third person and Mouse Aim controls.
Literally just SIM with mouse aim and third person
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Satisfy both camps?
Thoughts?
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This would probably be the easiest solution.
Hopefully Gaijin will add something like this soon. Air RB is just very stale.
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Yeah they just need to get over it (the devs) and implement RB EC for the people who want it. Half baked or not I want the gamemode so I can enjoy bombers/strike aircraft and have a more realistic/smaller scale experience.
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That would be really nice if they do such thing, I just don’t want to be literal copy paste form naval in which sometimes its arcade battles and sometimes its realistic.
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I am on board for this, apart from spotting being changed due to how difficult it is to visually identify aircraft against the ground currently. Just having that extra situational awareness is what makes me play RB over simulator personally, so i’d rather get the long-form gameplay without losing what characterizes RB.
Useless actions is also a major problem. I have heard so many bad things about that reward system and do not want it in RB EC.
I’m not totally sure how bracket rotation works so i’ll leave someone to explain that i guess. All i remember is X BR gets uptiered one day and downtiered another.
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I think that a reduced spotting system would work great (at least outside of top tier). Friendlies could be spotted at all times, but enemies have a max marker distance of 2.5km (or something like that), and shared spotting between friendlies is enabled.
I’d prefer it if they kept the same rewards as regular RB, with a couple tweaks to how activity is calculated (and RP as well).
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maybe no spotting between friendlies unless your in a squad, auto assigned or made by player.
and addition of jet-jet datalink to all aircraft that have it, that way if you see an enemy and have datalink, all other DL jets can see it instead of just shared with whole team
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Then it would be nice having AWACS flying for both sides, and maybe destruction of it as one of the objectives
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F-14, 15, 16, and hopefully soon 18 all have jet-jet DL. USN phantoms too, and some other fighters but not sure about specific types.
I mostly want it because of how inconsistent the spotting system can be. I’ve had planes not be spotted while I’m 800m away from them.
That would be a good solution at top tier.
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I think all of the ideas presented are great, but lets think of a realistic solution to implementing the game mode. Gaijin will not invest a ton of development into RBEC if they do implement it.
It will likely have to be a copy paste situation. Either full RB rules, or full SIM rules.
And if that’s the case, full SIM rules would probably be best, as the more SIM leaning community members want RBEC. Rather than the pseudo arcade ARB ruleset.
I say this because full SIM rules would give us by default multiple runways, silver lion based spawn costs, long match timers with large ticket counts, etc. As well as Denmark being available, which is huge.
If they copy paste ARB rules, it’s 30 minutes, EC maps, one runway which sets up airfield camping issues, etc.
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Id love to see it and so would many others, but my optimism is turning into pessimism. Theres usually always a forum post active on this subject at any one time so they know its a want, but they refuse to reimplement something that used to be in the game. I think they know people want it and just refuse to for some unknown reason. We can only speculate.
God yes. The only reason I play this game is for the semi-realistic combat. If I wanted some braindead 3 minute instant action death match I’d go play Ace Combat.