ARB is a pain in the ass sometimes. Especially 12.7 and up. Even for experienced players.
- Matches are poorly balanced
- 13.0’s versing Rafales is not fun
- 12.7’s versing J-10’s is not fun
- Fox 3’s versing Fox 1’s is not fun
- IRCCM versing engines that run a million degrees (F-18, F-14 etc.) is not fun
- 1.0 uptiers at this BR are incredibly bad in and of itself. But not having any type of balance in the amount of up- and downtiers is gruesome
- Why does my 12.3 F/A-18 nearly always get downtiers and my 12.7 F/A-18 nearly always get uptiers? Why aren’t these things limited to a maximum % of matches?
- I have been trying out the Su-33 a bit lately, a great plane which I’m very excited about. At the same time it can be incredibly frustrating to play sometimes. The matchmaker genuinly ruins some great planes at the moment
- 16v16 means you have to rush or get swarmed
- The amount of matches I end up with 3 or more kills only to get swarmed by enemies at the end of the match is not fun
- The snowball effect is simply too strong and your effect on it is too marginal
- Some maps are blatenly bad. They are either:
- Too small for 32 players and 320+ missiles: Spain (alternate history variant), Afghanistan (alternate history variant), Rocky Pillars, City
- High altitude, dampening plane performance: Pyrenees, Rocky Canyon and (to a lesser extend depending on playstyle) Mysterious Valley
- Map rotation is just straight up broken
- It just straight up doesn’t work half the time. If I’m getting one of the aforementioned maps I’m not willing to play it 4 or 5 more times in the next 10 games
- Why do we not see some maps for an entire day sometimes and others three times in a row?
- Opt-in mechanisms don’t work
- Map preferences don’t do anything (with exception to the single map ban we get)
- 12v12 opt-in isn’t effective. I dare to bet not even 1% of my total matches is actually 12v12
- Spotting is inconsistent and not adjusted for 12.7+ gameplay
- The ranges are too short for these planes
- It only seems to work half of the time. Sometimes planes literally spawn in 1.5 km’s out (aced crew perfect conditions)
- Radar bugs are being ignored
- I have created a million bug reports and 90% is being ignored. Doesn’t even get a label
- RWR is too hard to read
- Besides only functioning on the X-axis/horizontally (which is unrealistic for a lot of the planes in the game), the RWR keeps giving launch warnings from beaten missiles
- The distance of a missile is incredibly difficult to tell. If anything I want to be able to zoom in because right now anything <7-10km’s seems like it’s hugging the plane
- The amount of up- and downtiers are too reliant on server region and time of day
- My 12.7 F/A-18 get a much better matchmaker in the late evening in the CIS region than in the EU region. Which nudges me to play with input lag
- My 13.7 J-10 gets mostly downtiers during the day and mostly uptiers during the evening. Which nudges me to play it only certain times of day
I am fully expecting this post to get ignored by Gaijin and flamed by many others. That’s unfortunately the nature of the developer and parts of this community that I have come to expect. I figured it’s always better to give it a shot than to stay silent about it however