People are having fun in that engagement if they’re in an aircraft, as being helpless in your tank certainly doesn’t sound fun to me.
Gaijin is doing what they want and think it’ll increase their profits.
How do you know they’re a minority, did Gaijin run any in-game poll on that topic or what ?
By doing this, CAS side of things would remain absolutely the same and those who don’t want to get oppressed by aircraft are sorted out as well.
I don’t really see how this isn’t a solution for both.
I wonder if it’s really that much to ask ?
If you enjoy combined arms you’d still have the same GRB to play in, so being so against a mode that doesn’t affect you is weird.
Also, if Air has it’s own standalone mode, I don’t see a reason why Ground couldn’t get the same treatment as they’re equally big branches that both have a lot of interest.
An easy suggestion that’s been mentioned many times it to make SPAA better and more rewarding.
There a reason most SPAA players just sit in the spawn as they are vulnerable to almost everything that moves.
British mid tier SPAA are awful. We get the Bosvark which has an effective gun gimped by a limited traverse range, slow reload, small ammo amounts and can be killed by an arty strike 200m away. Also the Skink, it has armour but it just struggles to hit targets, it also overheats constantly and requires constant reloading. The lower spec Crusader 20mm seems more viable.
The US get the Duster and it’s identical twin (?). Its lethal if it hits a plane but hitting jets with it is impossible.
For real. Depending on the br, i can go multiple matches where like 2-3 total planes/helis spawn.
Also true. I swear 50% of them crash in the first pass.
Itemised sp costs would allow for max loadouts to be much more costly while allowing small payloads to be used more.
I dont like this because it will lead to two things.
1: people sitting in the respawn screen while waiting for a plane spawn to free up
2: people spawning in a plane and camping the corner of the map to lock out the slot for their team.
I think it is because it seems to be “i dont want to deal with X so make a gameode without X”.
If gaijin made this new mode, it would open the flood gates to people demanding gamemodes without other weapons.
I have seen some who want a gamemode for arb that doesnt have ARH/SARH missiles and one for gun only.
The nation I play doesnt have a competitive SPAA after 4.0 so I’m reliant on CAP to hard counter CAS so have a very different experience with SP AA. I don’t agree with OPs idea but I’m tired of how aggro CAS mains are to any criticism of the mechanics they abuse
Yeah. For me, i wont deny there being things that need to change. But i will push back on these half-baked, reactive changes.
Two changes that would help a lot are
1: itemised payload sp cost. Would increase sp cost for full payloads while allowing for lighter payloads to have a use.
2: more spaa. They already confirmed new top tier spaa this year but mid/high ranks still need to additions.
Some posters here are trying to say people want TO because they don’t want to spawn AA and use it, which is false.
Regardless of your AA status, you’ll still be killed in a pretty toxic engagement where your chances of winning were slim to none from the start. This is the part that’s disliked.
Also, at some tiers AAs simply aren’t enough and for a proper counter you’ll have to spawn a plane. This is yet another disliked part, as some people simply don’t enjoy flying and grinding through ARB for countless hours, just to get a decent counter. It just seems a bit too much.
Why would it ?
[Military branch]-only modes already exist, so TO wouldn’t be unprecedented and would just be one of those modes.
I can just ask for TO and point a finger towards AO, which is already in the game, as a valid argument.
Someone advocating for ARH-only can’t do finger pointing towards HEAT/ATGM/etc-only because those don’t exist.