On paper, the event is good and can be a nice opening for a new gamemode (maybe without all the nuke part) that can be done for each Era, could make Planes games more fun (especially in RB) and give a real goal to Bombers
On game now, too much AA (the BR change seems to be good), and just allow player to take the given plane and not take their own (so everyone is on the “same” level)
Hope this gamemode will stay and expand to other Era (with some rework on it)
You have a raw diamond in your hands, don t waste it
They added a bracket search, and split the game mode up into 2 br groups, which screw the people in the top bracket and insta games for bottom bracket.
You can nuke the AA clusters one by one. First you start PVP furballing. If escalation 1 hits you spawn the 6kt nuke and go for AA clusters, depots, tank convoys. If some players do this, the map will be cleared along the contact line.
As soon as escalation 2 hits, you spawn the large tactical nuker. Preferrably use an airdield at the flanks. Stay low, go around the flanks, use terrain cover. Approach the closest airfield. Climb up 4000-5000m drop the bomb, turn around and get down to the deck. Rearm, go for the next airfield. Also the other flank. Enemy gets more and more cornered at one or two airfields and AA positions get thinned out quite alot.
Thats how I play it. Flanks are also mostly clear…Cause lol…everyone spawning close to the center and goes to the furball.
My line-up is comprised of the MiG-23ML, the Su-25K and the Su-14M4 and this is either bugged or just doesn’t work. Loading into a match sends me straight into a team full of MiG-23s facing a team full of F-14s, F-15s, and F-18s. I don’t know how the USSR team is expected to compete but no wonder no one wants to play that team.
I hope the folk playing the upper br bracket are having fun waiting 10 years for a match. Looks like making the event only for two nations wasn’t a smart decision, Gaijin.
Time to get in the F-4 and MiG-23 like everyone else.
This game mode is amazing and should allow the use of all nations.
But unfortunately, it has a serious balancing problem.
The American team has very powerful planes.
F14A and B
f15A
F16
F18A and C eartly
A10C with JDAM
AVB-8 (NA)
Even the F20 is decent in this mode.
Russia only has 2 MiG 29s, and only the 9-13 is really good and yak141
The su25sm3 is banned, while the a10C is not.
Releasing SU-33 will better distribute the players in the queues
Allowing the F-117 on the American side would also be interesting.
This mode doesnt need any more imbalance. The su33 will be too strong with its 8 ER’s compared to everything else, shifting the long queue times to russia, just ban the Mig29 9.13 and the F15A and you already have better balance