My brother loves the new upd. Didnt trt it myself but hes been playing almost only NAB
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There’s only one “forum dweller” here, and it’s you - who I see in every thread about the topic defending to the death with post after post after post pretending that “no no actually everybody else super duper loves the new aiming!” when 80%+ of written feedback on all platforms I’ve seen and 66%+ of every poll I’ve seen votes against it. Apparently we just don’t understand it and we’re all bad at the game. And yet you’re the one who wants to legalise aimbots for everyone. Was the old system too hard for you, perhaps? Is that why you prefer using a legal aimbot?
I played it a bit on the dev server and it was rancid. I’ve played it a bit on the live server, and it’s still hideous. The reason you aren’t seeing positive feedback about it isn’t because they’re all busy playing the game and having fun like you pretend, it’s because there’s almost nobody aside from yourself who actually likes the new aiming.
Your anecdotes about your personal queue times and player counts are meaningless, assuming you’re even telling the truth. In my experience, and this is the truth, queue times were noticably longer and there were noticably more bots. And I was playing at the same usual time with all servers selected like I normally do. And you have to remember, that Gaijin recently increased the number of bots you could see in a match to reduce queue times, so even with that to “help” queue times were still longer for me than they used to be. Of course I’m sure you think my anecdotes are meaningless, but it isn’t because they don’t fit your narrative, it’s because that’s just my experience as a single person. Only Gaijin is going to know, really, how many players there are still actively playing Navy Arcade at the moment, or how many there will be next week, or next month. All I know is that I won’t be among them.
Reddit doesn’t care about Naval, and Arcade is actively shunned on there by RB elitists (“people play navy in this game?”, “arcade who cares”, and similar comments always pollute threads about either, while the threads are downvoted). But there has been some feedback about the changes on there, and it’s all been negative. The AB community isn’t vocal and the Naval community is the smallest. That makes us Naval Arcade players the quietest of the smallest fraction of the playerbase. That’s why there’s no massive outcry on YouTube, Steam, etc, as there would be if such a big detrimental change was forced upon ground or air RB.
I’ll finish spading the new coastal reservers and I think I’ll be finished with the mode until they change it back. Even reserver tier coastal is terrible now, as soon as anyone has line of sight on each other there’s just a stream of accurate fire until one of you dies, even from 2km, 3km. No skill required to hit long range shots anymore. Just look at them and hold the fire button until you die or they die. How boring.
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How it’s nobody if even the first pool had 32 to 67 rates?
You know that’s your problem as a community, what you’ve done to change something, i know what i did, i suggest thing, report bugs asking for Naval in every official polls and treads. And know what my suggestions been implemented, my bugreports been fixed, while you aimed your green circle and been content. That’s why I’m here.
You gonna fight for your right to Party!
Yeah, you make great points. I actually forgot about the Arcade punishment. I usually only see it in game. If you try to push anybody in chat, you get labeled a tryhard and told it’s only Arcade. To which I usually just reply, then why are you here? Or something like that.
I know I’m not in the elite mode, and maybe eventually I will go there if I can get a new monitor. But for this massive of a change, and for it being one of my main hobbies… I was growing to like Naval more than Tanks. I would rush through tank event tasks to go back and play Naval. To get gutted like this is just such an awful feeling.
But yeah there’s plenty of things I don’t weigh in on because I’m not part of the RB crowd, but then they destroy an entire game mode like this, and I become vocal. A lot of people might play a fair bit of both. The number of Naval Arcade Mains is probably really low.
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And me - so you math doesn’t add up :)
Game design? This supposes working brains in the so called “developpers”.
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No, they won’t do anything. Naval battles are longtime dead (6 players and 26 bots is the usual game in all BR). They simply don’t care.
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The moment a dev stops by here and says this, I will attempt to comply, but until then, I would rather not deduce that from the patch. What is the problem with producing some communication? People will take it the wrong way and you’ll have to clarify it with more communication? OH NOOOOOOOOO
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Arcade is meant to be point and click casual play so the change is logical. the only people mad about the change are ones looking for the RB mode aiming, naval RB gives lead indicators btw so its still arcade like
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Arcade matches are already too long going to time limit, and I have to learn RB Airplanes. Not to mention the feeling of this being forced and having to change all my lineups because of BR changes for planes.
A stupid patch as a nudge to get me to play RB is just BS.
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Really!!! So you have some different version of the game? My battles: 4-10 players in both teams, the rest are bots.
Thank you very much!!! Хочу что-то и по-русски добавить, но забанят.
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the BR differences are slight at most you will be fine
I spent weeks on several air trees grinding planes for naval comps. Weeks of planning optimal lineups. It’s all down the drain with a rug pull. No warning. No explanation. Just a patch preview and drop.
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dont worry planes are useless in realistic because AI AA gunners are cracked
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they only people saying THIS, are people who haven’t played Naval Arcade OR Realistic. There isn’t a point and click mode anywhere else in War Thunder. How do you think the Tankers would respond if they made Tank Arcade point and click. If you don’t like it YOU go play War Thunder Mobile. The rest of us are happy with Arcade Naval as it was. We’ll pull out our phones if we’re tired of skilled play.
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Ok, so I should go play realistic where the fun aspect of planes does not exist. That makes sense.
Well you have to because it does not exist in AB now either.
Ok, swell. We have a great situation here to deal with.
By the way, why so much effort into AB redesign WHEN THERE IS SUCH MASSIVE BATTLEPASS TASK PROBLEMS WITH NAVAL.
How do you get 9+ kills with a Strike aircraft for example? How do you get a plane kill in a kill boat, plane, and cap in one win task?
That’s not how it works. You have to consider angles etc.
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I’ve played a fair bit of naval and I’m saying it
it is point and click. just point at the green indicator. no need to learn anything after that
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I guess you haven’t played Tank Arcade either. Green don’t mean pen. Red don’t mean miss. And you absolutely can choose how to aim. With just shy of 22,000 Arcade Naval Battles, and over 16,600 Arcade Tank battles, I have a bit of experience. Tankers wouldn’t put up with the aim botting they’ve done to Arcade Naval. It’s criminal, and clearly people don’t like it.
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When i moved over to WT from WOT two years ago I played a lot of arcade for the first few months before going to RB because arcade holds the players hands far too much.
it literally does
no it means non pen. there’s no indicator when you’re not on target
then play the non arcade mode. as the change to accommodate the acrade styling clearly isn’t your thing