First and foremost this is a game. I don´t think adding better stuff than Pantsir would make the gameplay better. Especially on such tiny maps built for WW2 and 10 year old game modes.
If you want to kill off GRB, this is exactly what you´d do. I would argue more than a half of WT players plays GRB for the planes. Main reason being that ARB for the past several years is a steaming pile of garbage and GRB is the next best thing to play planes in WT. You make it impossible to play planes in GRB, then you will end up with a naval battle queue type situation.
It would make gameplay better for the people who join ground battles to play ground vehicles, yes.
What doesn’t make gameplay better, and what kills off GRB, is C*S point-and-clicking efforlessly 6+ enemy ground vehicles from 15km away without the ground players having any way to avoid or counter it.
Maybe precisely because of stuff like helicopters and C*S being able to spawn right away with ATGMs from the start of the match? And also because maybe it’s just too difficult and slow for the average player, a situation which is definitely not made better by suddenly being reduced to atoms by stuff you can’t counter in any way.
To be honest i didn’t saw a lot of german crying in a while. But i don’t read r&r often nowadays because planes makes me scared and you all talk a lot about them.
Nah man, you see. Because ARB at top tier sucks it’s totally fair to bomb the heck out of helpless tanks in GRB and Pantsir equivalents will make it hard to do so.
Honestly eurofighter leak wouldn’t have been believable at all until f15e dropped. Now it’s almost necessity to balance out top tier some. it gives 3 nations something truly competitive and doesn’t push the envelope too far. This leads me to believe that F18 will likely come in spring or summer and also will get aim120c-5 so that way it can still push the envelope but not too far. Sweden can get gripen e or a Finnish hornet, Japan can get f2, ussr can get su30sm or mig29m/k. Mig29k could be quite interesting if it actually does have its 5x reduced rcs from stealth coatings and materials. If mig29k dropped at the same time as the f18 and gets r77-1, i think it could be a good patch for both sides.
Some people really want Ground Battles to just be “CAS mode with player-controled targets” instead.
Hell, some people even spend entire matches without spawning a single Ground vehicle. And the problem is us wanting more counters for this uncontested air dominance…?
This is an old post I did, back when they used the “just spawn SPAA” mantra, but now point still stands, even though they now evolved to “just spawn fighter”:
Another example: bro spawned KA-52, then MiG-21SMT, then KA-50. Again, an older post, but point still stands.
