I stopped plaing the game in 2014 after a little more than a year due to military and family obligations. 210 days ago, I started playing once more and I can say that this game CAN be enjoyable (playing with my squadron mates makes it bearable) if Gaijin would actually care about the game and it’s community. Instead of adding more and more things to the game so as to line your corporate pockets, try balancing your BR system instead of basing it on the 80-90% of players that don’t cheat or do this professionally with YouTube videos. When you conduct your monthly ban-wave, try hardware blocking the cheaters for all they do is show up 8-10 hours later doing the same thing (it’s also the best experience playing on those days). Region lock the servers so that if we choose to only play against those in our own region, then that’s all we go against. If you implement this the way Blizzard did years ago for World of Warcraft (have been playing since 2004), people can still play on other servers IF invited to a squad by someone IN that region. The BR’s need to be decompressed something fierce. There’s no reason a Sherman should be facing an M-109 SPFA that was developed near the end of the Viet Nam War. Just as console players have the option to disable cross-network play, we PC players should also have that option. Am I ever going to be some outrageously good player in this game? no, I’m not. I’m 54, retired military and a retired commercial truck driver that just wants to play a game that I enjoyed 11/12 years ago and relax.
due to working later in the day than most, servers can be kinda dead at times meaning I have to go over to NA at times, taking that away means I’m stuck sometimes and it will suck. however I do think the Chinese playerbase should have a walled-off dedicated server again.
speaking of that, because the no crossplay servers for console are so incredibly dead you can easily exploit the matchmaker to farm score with mates in a discord call, may be best to get rid of the ability to turn off crossplay in its entirety because of this.
The centurion mk3 from 1947 can see the K9 thunder (VIDAR) which was first in service in 1999 in Korea. this is a 0.3 BR difference going from an upgunned ww2 tank to a self-propelled howitzer with thermals and LRF. its really bad at places. its a mess
I can understand the working grind and respect that issue, yet I’m cetain that you’ve made friends on the NA server just as I have on the EU server (folks I served with in NATO deployments and others). Just squad up and you’re ported to the NA server.
As for the CIS server, it should indeed be isolated once more since the majority of the hackers in ALL games are from that part of the world and also from Brazil. Couldn’t agree more.
In terms of the VIDAR, couldn’t agree with you more. It’s the same with the PzH 2000, having 3rd Gen thermals and a laser range finder at 7.7 that goes against and IS-2 from 1944 is ridiculous. One thing that I think Gaijin should do is change the matchmaking (MM) from +1 above/below to +.3 above/below. I mean, how are 262’s at 6.0, 7.3 etc supposed to compete against Viet Nam era fighters with AAM’s? especially after I’ve read that they nerfed the reality of their turn time?
Appreciate your time!
This is a multi billion dollar company who probably will start saying publicly
“We as gaijin do not give a fuck about our player-base.”
Anyways what branch did you serve in?
Yeah, same. If I couldnt access NA or maybe even CIS servers. ASB and NRB, my main 2 gamemodes, would be unplayable
I would like a ww2 only mode and cold war only mode and so on. With realistic maps for the era you are playing in. Its not gonna happen but one can dream right?😁
Like a ww2 tank battle in bocage terrain in France. A long range map based in Africa maybe? 🤗
While this is tagged as Realistic Ground, this part would affect other game modes too.
GRB might be playable with a single region.
ASB?
NA has literally no servers going right now at the 3.0-4.0 BR bracket.
CIS has 1 Denmark match. Denmark is unplayable in props if you have self-respect. Also, to make it worse this has japan on Allies’ side alongside italy and I wouldn’t touch this lobby if I could help it even if it wasn’t Denmark because WW2 US/GB and Japan/Italy fighting side by side vs USSR and German is frankly very ahistorical and I’m bound to get teamkills if I fly as japan/italy seeing american planes and forgetting it’s a weird fantasy lobby.
EU has actual playable servers. However, both are 70 minutes in.
To be able to play Air sim, you need to be able to play CIS, EU and NA concurrently to find lobbies at your desired BR. If I was in NA, I’d have zero chance at getting a game at the instant of writing this reply.
At 4.3-5.3, there’s 1 CIS, 2 NA and 0 EU server going right now if you’re flying america and that CIS server is on Denmark so basically doesnt exist.
US Army for 8 and 10 in the US Navy…
USAF for 10 here.