hmmmm
you can have a system like with sim battles where only certain vehicles are allowed to participe so that you can limit the player’s choice
well i have been killed 1 or 2 times by a yak but the rest of the time it was either fw190, pucaras or do335
but planes should not be allowed in this gamemode, people can’t really camp cause the battlefield change as soon as you capture an objective
Very fun but needs some tweaking. Defenders should start on the point. I was driving to the point in my Tiger one match and died instantly to a flanking T55E1. That point couldn’t get defended that game.
It’d be great to see that map leave WT and never come back. It’s the worst map in the whole game.
i heavily disagree with this in terms of US the most. They have the Jumbo for armor, and the best tank destroyers in game with -10 depression, HEAT-FS and smoke. US has no problem defeating the long German guns.
Now, as for Russia, I somewhat agree, as i understand that the 122 and 152mm tank destroyers are not everyone’s cup of tea, and they also dont work the best on maps like Port Novorossisky.
I also dont agree with Gaijins past decision to move a lot of 5.7 and 6.0 and such up in br. That br change ruined the Russian 6.3 lineup, for example.
So Russia perhaps could use a better turreted tank. the KV-100 as a tech tree vehicle could provide that maybe?
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i mostly agree but i think that the blaring problem is that the 75 jumbo just cant stand up to a angled tiger verry well at range on the more open maps. so even when the jumbo is on defense it has to close the distance or ambush.
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Heavily disagree with the idea of limiting how many times a vehicle can be spawned. That’s the main thing this mode gets RIGHT and it’s what I despise about regular battles. If I want to play a vehicle, I want to play that particular vehicle, not random other things in my lineup.
I don’t disagree that some vehicles are particularly strong and are problematic when spammed, but that’s more of a vehicle balance issue than a multi-spawn issue. All the extra spawning is doing is unmasking an underlying issue with the vehicle being strong.
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This should be permanent.
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This needs to have a GRB option.
Maps/capture points need some work.
When will the mode return?
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Bring it back, right now!
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I’d personally like to see it (with some spawn improvements) as a recurring event, a week long, once a month, maybe across from other recurring events, like naval EC is. I’d vary the top BR (3.7, 4.7, 5.7, maybe 6.7) event to event for variety, but the variety of 6 different random maps (counting offense/defense options) was one of the good things here, as was the reasonably short time to play.
These sorts of periodic events give squadrons something to do and rally around other than just encourage their players to just keep playing for squadron vehicle points. If all you care about is battlepass or the vehicle events, there’s actually very little value to squadding up. You’re just about maxing score in minimum time, and waiting for other people to finish the game after you’ve been knocked out, have to go answer the door or the phone, whatever… it’s just not efficient. A game that only has those kinds of activities, even with the best of intentions, will continuously approach a solitary experience and feel less and less like a gamer community overall.
Squadron battles and tournaments are increasingly focussed on top tier vehicles, a buy-in that discourages newer players. Having another entry-level option, not a mode, but just a series of short events like this one (I would count Nuclear Thunder in this too, although it’s a little more high-tier), no more than a week long before they go away again, on a reasonably regular schedule, that a squadron group can build membership events around and use their Discord voice channels for something, would be a long-term positive. I’d even suggest putting them in the gaps between the single-vehicle events (3 weeks worth of vehicle events, 1 week of Advance or something similar per month). It would seem to be manageable, if they could add this latest Advance run to a weekend, and then take it down without any significant server-side issues.
(People will say, well, just do your squadron hangouts while a vehicle event or a battlepass is on… but this event shows why people will always tend to do every vehicle event they can, and if that’s what they’re doing it’s better to just grind solo to do it. The most powerful rare non-Pucara vehicles in this specific event, VFW and PakPuma, were event vehicles in 2019 and 2017 respectively. People who played back then, or bought their way in (or got lucky on a lootbox) had effective additional lineup choices here others did not, for better or worse. Any event vehicle today could in theory give a gameplay advantage later, so it’s just the better use of your time if you can.)
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One shot of HE wont kill the VFW unless is a big HE, PT is good yeh, but bro, i played with germany and didnt lose a single game, this game mode gave the total superiority to germany and there is no problem in admit it since its a test,talking about Tiger, it is a total menace at lomg range angled, good luck trying to hit his cuppola, PzIV/70? Well good luck killing it at long distance.
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I always appreciate your thoughtful contributions, Bruce.
What you’re saying is somewhat true, but German vehicles at this B.R are the most well-rounded vehicles in-game. Like the tiger has a great cannon, great armour (and unkillable when angled, which is what most do) and decent reload, decent velocity, decent depression and decent speed. compared to the jumbo, which is good, but has such a bad cannon that the average player can’t use it. Same while comparing the Panther to the t34. As for US tank destroyers, that brings another problem: matchmaking. When playing Germany, you usually only have German tanks on your team (because everyone is playing Germany for this event), but when you play usa its a jumble of all countries, so there aren’t enough good tanks to make a difference. And while the US tank destroyers have good cannons, they don’t have good armour, so they can’t exactly work well in defence, and there are not enough spawns for offence. So, generally, German tanks are just better for this game mode, and there are so many people playing Germany that you have 5 countries stuffed against them in a team, so instead of getting the best and the worst of each country, you get the ok and the worst. But even if you are allowed at least 6.3, you will unlock better russian tanks that actually compete with German ones and better tanks like M18, which is perfect for countering the Germans’ “Puma blitzkrieg”, and 6.7 is even better.
P.S: You’re right, I mean russian turreted tank. Thanks
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I really enjoyed this event! I dont have very high hopes of it showing up again for another 4 years, but we do need this to be available all the time seeing how it was so much better than TDM Ground RB. Just please make it so you can select this to play only and not in rotation with regular Ground RB matches so I dont have to enter matches and leave until I get to it!
I think the penetration and armor give Germany a pretty solid advantage here. Most German tanks of this BR have very good cannons with high penetrating APHE and several have good armor on top of that. Even when it comes to TDs from other nations like the US, they don’t tend to have the same amount of penetration with APHE rounds and it gets really tough against things like the Panther and Pz.IV/70.
did they removed this mode? i was looking to keep playing it
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