Bullet Hell needs to be a primary game mode for several reasons.
It is incredibly popular and you see people in chat nearly every match wishing they could play queue for it on its own.
People are queueing into classic mode or nuclear thunder and leaving the match because they want to play bullet hell and didn’t get it, which is negatively affecting said modes.
Classic top tier gameplay loop does not reflect the gameplay loop of the rest of Classic ARB. The gameplay of Classic top tier is generally unfun and uninteresting for many players, who want nothing more than to use guns instead of slinging missiles.
The flight models of these aircraft are incredibly fun to use in close range engagements and dogfights which are extremely rare in classic mode.
TLDR: Bullet Hell is very popular and should be something you can queue on its own if you want to play it, it should not be by chance or gimmicks.
Do you want Bullet Hell to be a primary game mode?
I would also like to add that Bullet Hell did not change since the second run of it despite most feedback stating that it should not require 2 vehicles, instead it should just be 1 vehicle with 3 spawns or being allowed to bring more than 1 vehicle but have the ability to spawn any of your vehicles up to 3 times.
I’m not particularly invested in BH specifically, but I do want some kind of mode where I can practice modern jet dogfighting as a matter of course, because right now there’s no such venue outside of customs (where you need to find opponents yourself and no one gets any rewards). It’s either this or ranked 1v1 as a permament game mode.
There are 1v1 tournaments on the tss page but as far as on-demand high-tier “dogfight” gameplay this is the best we’re gonna get for a long time i think
It’s absurd to implement two completely different modes like this is just tank battles and night tank battles
This is absolute different mindset for playing ARB and BH, but you can’t know which one you’ll end up in in the next match. It’s so nervous when you can’t be ready for the next match.
Can’t you turn off the “Classic Mode” and Nuclear Escalation sliders and only queue for Bullet Hell?
cuz +1 if you can’t. When I get my first top tier jets I’m exclusively stock grinding and practicing jet dogfights in Bullet Hell(run away from that allegedly bad ARH gameplay)
fr i want my dogfight practice guaranteed it builds skill like early cold war/ww2 game mode for modern planes but gaijin decided the hard work they put into balancing and doing rocket science for top tier missiles would be too significant to give away and allow people to not use it
there would still i think be a massive playerbase who still enjoys the missiles if gajin kept it temperary 1 week every month we wouldnt have the fear of it ruining match making (notes gajin?) but they will call that FOMO I guess so yea maybe just a much higher amount of bullet hell servers (notes gajin???)
Bullet hell needs some pretty major reworks before it becomes a primary mode.
First off, the BRs need to be overhauled entirely. Things like the Ariete and Mig-19 could honestly go up several BRs, and things like the 13.0 harriers would go down several BRs.
Next, the current implementation with tiny maps and relatively large teams makes it 3rd party hell. Reducing the teams to 1-3 players on each side would be a lot better imo.
I will vote yes with the intention that there will also be the change for the removal of the 2 vehicle requirement, because that completely ruins the gameplay for someone like me who got an event jet like the dutch F-16A for example in a tech tree that’s not researched and can’t even play the mode with it