My friend had an idea to improve high tier Air RB maps in a DCS style game. Say, a large EC map with more focus on teamwork and different types of combat. Higher rewards for taking out ground convoys or battles, but they are protected by better SPAA/SAMs. And better base bombing mechanics, etc. Multiple airfields to spawn, multiple ways to play.
You could:
-Go head to head combat with fighters
-SEAD mission to destroy SPAA (Buff the SAMs for a real challenge though)
-Heavier ground attack after SEAD
-Escort attackers/Bombers
-Bomb bases/targets
I still think this would go better along side Air RB and not as a replacement, I think ARB is a better fast paced A2A gameplay option, but this kind of EC match could give higher rewards.
We’ve been begging Gaijin for a proper Air RB EC mode for years to no avail. Hopefully they listen because high tier Air RB is busted right now with this 16 vs 16 no respawn meta.
The air game is so far removed from anything any new player could envisage its ridiculous. If somebody had of shown me AIR RB before I signed up to War Thunder I never would have tried War Thunder. Mixed nations in a free for all like kids playing with toy airplanes.
I envisaged Teams of B17s being defended by P51 and attacked by a squadron of Me 109s or something. An online game for the 21st century not the turgid kids game we have as GRB with Zeros vs Israeli or Italian planes or whatever. WT is more like an airshow than a wargame.
Nobody seems to want to play bombers in ARB ,only thing you could do is escort Bot bombers to a target and defend then while the other team tried to shoot them down. Might work with a whole city or giant factory as a target. Like the Stalingrad training map.
Whole thing probably wants redoing from scratch.They can’t make it work for WW2, Best of luck trying to get ARB to work in a modern age.
understandable… but say…gaijin would copy Air sim 1:1 and just give it RB controls… would that satisfy you? because thats something a lot… and i mean a LOT of players want at the moment… and i really dont get it why gaijin cant or refuses to implement something like this
sadly we cant really do anything more than wait till gaijin develops something like this or buy a bit of equipment for sim… and for your tracking issue as far as i know there are a lot of easy face-capture apps on the internet that are free or a cheap alternative to TrackIR
but on a sidenote… this topic here is the 10th or so topic i have seen in the last 2 weeks asking for Air RB EC… its really incomprehensible why gaijin does nothing… it gets requested for years now…
i can only guess what the problem might be… the server infrastructure? the lack of resources in terms of development?
it definetly cant be the lack of interrest or demand from the playerbase
Yes, we need a gamemode adapted to modern jet fighters. The current gamemode was designed years ago for WW2 planes, it makes absolutely no sense to keep it as it is.
i dont think thats its a money problem… at least if they keep the Sim economy in this mode… repaircosts are high and SL are hard to earn… you have to play a long time to balance it out… but with a Premium account you dont pay any repaircosts so that would be a money source for gaijin and besides that if you want to grind you can grind better in sim with a additional Premium vehicle
and queue times are not an issue either… like Sim there are playercreated lobbys that you can join at any time and leave at any time…
Sim brackets are the best thing that’s happened to this game. Wait for the proper bracket, and any plane can be top dog. Sim is the only mode where you can choose to avoid uptiers.
Nobody is saying sim isnt good. This is about Air Realistic though. Not sim. Sim is not for the VAST majority of players.
I understand there is a hardcore Sim community in War Thunder that love the mode and none of us want to take that away but,
You cannot just tell Realistic players to “play sim” and it’ll be fine.
No. It’s not the same whatsoever. It’s a VERY different style of playing and this post and others like it focus on Air Realistic because Air Realistic is currently broken.
This is why this post is in the “Realistic” section of the forum and not the Sim section.
We’re not trying to take anything away from Sim. We just want more strategy for Air RB.