Relative to RB, yes. You’d need a year’s worth of data to account for annual player patterns for absolute data to be useful.
Before patch it was about 2:1 AB/RB in terms of players. Now AB’s gone down about 5% and RB has gone up about 10% compared to pre-patch. This could be a combination of net departures from AB, transfers from AB to RB, or net gains for RB, all of which could be attributable to the aiming changes making RB seen as less the inferior mode for naval aficionados now than it was. What you can’t argue from data is that the changes have attracted a whole bunch of new AB players yet, which was presumably the aim.
Its’s probable the only realistic aspect remaining, you are going flank speed in a multi tone beast and turn full radder, the cannons just can’t follow or the angle of the ship don’t allow them to shoot correctly.
Actually I think this is just as it was before the change, it wasn’t that noticeable as you would not shoot while making hard maneuvers.
Another way at looking at the same Statshark data. A modest decline over two months in naval popularity generally relative to other modes somewhat obscures the greater drop in AB popularity specifically since the last update:
Day of week has a big impact for it, but tbh, I think i’ve begun seeing more populated (NRB) matches recently, at least they feel a little more populated and that makes sense. I know a lot of players use to just give up from sitting in a queue for ages but now you will actually get into a match, even if a large percentage of the enemy team are bots, and whilst they are less interesting to fight than players they are also not quite as dumb as AI vehicle founds in other gamemodes.
Wow, PB dropped not cause lack of content and events, sure it’s costal lovers abandoning the ship cause of amen, cry moar maybe they return cause you not playing.
meanwhile 3.3 totally empty matches so i had to farm bots
Do I need to play a specific BR?
what time of the day?
what time zone?
Do need to be good?
Can I watch TV while I play?
Do I need wear something special?
Here take one more from BR 4, Its in the “popular” BR
The “Crying” consept is again something that supports your narattive?
Me Good - you Bad stuff?
Others might say “protesting” making “noise” , you got the idea…
Ohh so we do have a problem after all?!? I thought everything was all good and full of happy players?
And were is your prophetic manifesto, we are still waiting your post.
