I’ve been playing this game for years now and I’ve gotta say i’m not very impressed by the maps or game play options. like 3 out of 4 maps for air battles are just flat landscapes with some trees. Lets gets some mountains and cities or something shooting missiles at each other over a flat landscape leaves alot to be desired. The tank maps are better but still the amount of maps where you can just get shot in your spawn from across the map is poor map design put some hills or rocks there or something like damn guys.
Now for the gameplay aspects tanks are in an okay state but it would be nice to see some npc’s on the map like in air RB or maybe some different objectives it needs something more for sure it gets pretty quiet out there sometimes doesnt really feel like a battle all the time.
Air Gameplay This probably needs the most love being the oldest. So this one could be a really easy one it just needs some new maps (which aren’t just flat with different colors), and it needs some objectives which matter. So right now we have objectives but 99% of the time they are useless cause a. they are way too vague, and b. they don’t really offer the best rewards. We have so many different aircraft in the game with so many different styles of gameplay they could do but it’s just not in the game. We literally have some spy planes and don’t have anyway of taking pictures for an objective. We have cool torpedo bombers but most of the time no way to use them. There are strike craft which could have their own cool objectives and fighters who could fight off enemy npc’s and players or attack the strikecraft or bombers but that isn’t the experience we get. It’s more of a deathmatch mode everytime… People like more game modes than deathmatch. Just think how the gameplay would change if you made the objectives valuable.
Fighters had to clear the skys of npc planes and enemy fighters doing the same thing. Strikecraft were focused on hitting bombing targets, and clearing enemy ground forces. Torpedo bombers out there trying to bomb naval targets. There are cool gamemodes like this already in simulator mode why is it only in simulator? Wouldn’t that be a nice change for everyone in ARB? Maybe have two game modes like Classic ARB and Conquest ARB. I think adding things to the game play will draw a massive amount of new players into the game. War thunder needs more players and fun game modes will bring new and old players back.