all alliances vs all is pretty boring
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+1
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I can’t say I remember how long it’s been like this, but I remember this being prominent when the T-2 was first added, since it utterly demolished the F-100D and MIG-19PT, and was needed as a bandaid to prevent such onesided matches. Guess poor balancing hasn’t changed.
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Would be nice if they would just port over sim lobbies with ARB controls, and no nametags. Give people an option for realistic battles redfor vs bluefor without having to learn sim controls or have periphials.
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I have been playing since 2017 or so. When I started, and up until around 2019-2020, every single game just about was built “narratively” with one side clearly having a theme and the other also having a theme, such as allies vs axis (with neutral nations going where they need be) in the ranks 1-4, or NATO vs Warsaw (again, with neutral nations going wherever) and this sort of mixed matchmaker was rare.
Since 2020-2021, they have mostly leaned into this boring ass everybody vs everybody matchmaker that produces the same exact match every time, slop.
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If it wasn’t for Mr.Worldwide x Mr.Worldwide teams, people would start complaining even more from unbalanced BS.
I think it’s the least of 2 evils.
This was also fun, sometimes…
Either way the result would be similar, people got bored of the same thing…
The main issue I have with WT after BR compression is the lack of options, we can’t have both with gaijin, its gotta be one or another. Just look at the useless “play in small teams” button
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I think it’s worse
I don’t think the stats based BR system was supposed to function this way, for example; the only reason the J-7D is 10.7 is because facing other J-7Ds is what’s keeping it there.
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Have you been here to experience the “narrative” based matches like @Normandy_Corsair explained? Most of the time, they were very one sided. The team on the favoured side would need to be very brain-dead to lose.
Stats based BR is very dumb yeah. But J-7D is not a good example since its easily dealt with by most jets, even in a downtier it’s not a big issue since the J-7D is a mediocre platform and most people have flares
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Meanwhile someone will blame American mains or Russian mains for this…
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Not like we get fair games now either. At least back then you had variety, interesting and immersive elements like playing on themed maps (think pacific maps), etc. Now it’s just bland slop 24/7
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its more fun to fight a MiG-15 with a Sabre than fighting another Sabre
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I agree on the most part. It’s just that the community as a whole didn’t like it. The current gameplay is indeed very bland, the map design is poor, game modes are uninteresting and pay 2 win is on an all time high
At least at WW2 BRs, it leads to some fun assymmetry. In sim, we still get flavoured sides like…
US/GB/USSR vs GER/ITA/JAP (3.0-5.7. I mostly play 3.3-4.7 tho)
USSR vs GER/ITA
US/GB vs JAP
In this scenario, the 3 nations per side complement each other pretty nicely and in matches with a nice balance of the different nations you can get quite fun and enjoyable dynamics.
Flying Italy or Japan without having 109s to help me feels meh.
Flying Germany when allies decide to spam spitfires feels meh when I have no G.55s or japanese planes to help out.
Same vibe for US/GB. USSR is seemingly good on its own until you’re fighting germans who refuse to come under 4 km altitude and your engine is sputtering and you’re wishing for P-51s to drive those pests down from above.
All this does require communication and coordination which comes more easily and almost naturally in sim.
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In a more serious note… it would be kinda the same except if they make the MM cherry picking planes.
You have mixed premiums , event and tech tree vehicles. You also will need to take ^time^ on account…
So it’s not so easy, unless they’d built an environment from the start to play like this and i don’t think they have that direction from 1.37 when they arcadified the MM enough.
What i’d do in their case ,just re-introduce historical events as Events , with specific match-ups /objectives.
OR.
WW Mode, BUT : very imaginary WW mode…random countries MM. Each session lasts a week and the MM changes.
Yeah, and give you the multiple respawns also.