As a lead-in: I’m here for the tanks and not interested in flying at all, so suggesting to grab a chopper myself is no solution.
This is happening more and more, helicopter pilots monopolising spawn points. Six of seven are out of sight from the base anyway which makes Maginot extremely vulnerable to this antisocial play style. They’re stopping one entire group and then go mental over them. Ground vehicles don’t even get a shot off unless they want to race across half the map, possibly crossing the line of fire from other spawns.
The low point is reached when some chopper joker miserably fails to kill the stopped group, and after 18 minutes just four waves are done. But they’re proud of themselves, with statements of “I’m carrying the match” and the like. It’s not carrying the match, it’s stroking their ego and making it crap for everybody else.
Helicopter pilots: Assault is a cooperative mode. Nobody is playing it to stand around watching you hog targets and feel good about yourselves.
Do I even need to mention how fun it is to have four helicopters and one SPAA in the group, but all of them are ignoring the bot planes? I’m tempted to call it “amateur hour”, but that would probably offend all amateurs. In the match I just left after two waves, I hadn’t fired a single shot because no target came in sight, but was hit twice by rockets and once by cannon fire which gave me about a minute total for repairs. I really don’t have time for this sort of thing, and I’m probably not the only one.
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Helis flat out ruin the game at some BRs. They were a bad idea to ever add
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Here we go again.
Its just you who need to be better and not sitting still behond a hill.
If you’re moving you’re a hard target. Or just launch a heli your self and shoot them down.
Edit: I’m a blind idiot! Only saw the Arcade battle and not the assault-ground tag. Sorry. Disregard anything I wrote.
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Are you aware that this post is about Arcade Ground Assault, which is PvE? It is fairly obvious if you read carefully instead of just glancing over it. There are words like “bot” and “Assault” in the post.
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Ground/Air Assault just needs a lot of reworking imo.
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Ground Assault on Sinai is actually hellish, if you miss the starting rush to camping point good luck. I can’t even had the chance to try out Maginot though.
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I absolutely refuse to play Sinai in the two highest BR brackets. I have tried it when upgrading Tiger II, Leopard 1 and upwards, but the level of aggravation is so high that I prefer the nine-minute lockout penalty over doing this to myself. I’m not even bothered by later receiving victory messages. If people want to play Sinai, that’s their choice, but it’s annoying enough to have part of a wave spawn with the guns already trained at me at lower BRs - when their turrets turn at more than 60°/s, even being visible for a second can be fatal.
Maginot is ok-ish if the situation mentioned in my post doesn’t occur, but has a “stink point” in the 5.3-6.3 bracket, with the bot planes precision-dropping two 500-kg bombs each and a large part of the base area taking craters instead of burn spots. Played enough Maginot matches (I do like my Tigers and Panthers) when the base pretty much looked like your choice of either the moon, Verdun, or Passchendaele, which includes respawning in a bomb crater.
I actually made a personal rule to deal with being blown up by ignored bot planes: if that happens twice, I’m out. There is a bit of elasticity in it because I’m aware that on a few maps my preferred positions are directly in the path of fresh bot planes, but on the whole that’s as much as I’m willing to take. Worst I ever played was Mozdok in a Tiger II (H), the match surprisingly went lost only during the final wave. I say surprising because the total of bot Me 262s shot down was 3, which means that in the last wave 19 of them were strafing the players. It was almost impossible to change position because of the permanent repairs from 76 MK 108 cannons shooting everything.
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