I had a lot of fun playing this today, I am always excited for new events for RB and it’s a great evolution of the Enduring Conflict mode with its layered targets, the tactical nukes are very cool to see and use. Kudos to the map designers, I really love that there are targets all over the map and away from the main furball. It plays exactly like I wanted RB EC to, and I love being able to do ground attack outside of a team deathmatch mode.
You don’t need me to tell you it’s definitely a niche appeal with the feedback in this thread, but I would love for this to be the foundation of a permanent event mode like Helicopter Battles or a weekend thing like Naval EC gets. Or, as PvE content for RB attack pilots to cooperate together or solo.
Thanks for not making it two days long, I’m going to love playing it. But I’m already sad that it will disappear and as BVVD said in his interview we won’t get a new dedicated EC mode for Air RB.
Fun and interesting event but the AI needs to be tuned a lot. Cant use any of the missiles that are supposed to be tested because they’re destroyed by AA with 99% success rate. If you get too close, bmp will laser your wing off. You also can’t flare anything either. Its just a big air battle until you can get a nuke and destroy the whole cluster of bots.
Would have also been nice to see the f117 allowed to maybe counter them
Only for those players who unlocked those in tech tree, while F-14A IRIAF is marketplace avaliable.
Yes, F-15A is a stronger fighter, but no, it isn’t the same
Since F-15A/MiG-29 need to guide their R-27/AIM-7 while F-14A IRIAF can just spam Fakour to random lads and get back to base for refuel/reload.
Similar to Last Year’s Great War Problem
Both Side has similar weaponry (Gaford & Gaford/MiG-29 & F-15A)
but single side has Extra one as cherry on top (A7V/F-14A IRIAF)
It creates an imbalance.
In a paper, in an ideal situation, it probably is balanced,
But in a real situation, this event is even lesser, and brutally balanced than Great War.
Because, however interesting the F-14 may be, it’s easy to dodge missiles; now, if you can’t shoot anything down, that’s your problem. I simply destroyed 50 planes in one game ( playing Russia ), so the Su-27 is broken for this game mode.
They should have considered that tho, as they want you to GRIND points for nukes. And the only way doing so is PvP. So most of the time its PvP only. If thy didnt notice that, they must be very bad at game design. Which is not the case as gamemode itself is really fun.
???, of course it’s a PvP mode, both teams have to engage in PvP so that their bombers with nukes can get through and keep pushing the enemy team back to the final airfield, but when played well, it’s a great game mode
I hope the Aerial Warfare they were hyping is more than just squadron-only fluff.
War Thunder is sitting on such a perfect spot to exploit its niche with so many vehicles and accessible RB controls. They’re absolutely able to appeal to more than just a TDM crowd, and I wish they did.