I hope the next event features tandem nation teams. This is because a lower amount of people play these nations on their own, so putting them together should in theory decrease queue times.
Britain/France versus Germany/China.
Fully aware Germany didn’t have a strategic bomber, though China does (or did, going by era).
They definitely need to increase the rewards of taking out the air defense. It takes exponentially more effort and time to take out the SPAAs than it does to just furball dogfight in the center of the map. I try to have a bit of fun in the CAS planes but it just feels fruitless. The real way to win is just mindlessly dogfight until all the airfields have been blown up from suicide nuclear bombers. Nuclear option does have consequences from just mindlessly suiciding like you can in Nuclear Thunder. Maybe a small cooldown after death to force you to run a CAS plane or SEAD plane. I think that would be a good compromise with the unlimited spawns to prevent zomber like behavior.
I also believe increasing the reward in general for taking out the depots and enemy vehicles will help encourage more players to slot into a CAS/SEAD role resulting in a better mix of CAS and Fighter aircraft on the field. Right now it feels like 90-95% fighters to 10-5% CAS/SEAD. Or you could even take the Nuclear Option route. Make all aircraft cost spawn points except for a really basic fighter that is always free. Force everyone into the basic free aircraft on match start and work their way up to better aircraft.
I’ve been loving it so far
If we could have it so clipping a tree on takeoff didn’t detonate the nuke and kill everyone on the airfield behind me that’d be great though.
Those nukes are pretty sturdy and hard to detonate
This must’ve been funny to the enemy team lol
I’m not too far behind you here at 1 hour and 11 minutes
You’re spot on, the reward imbalance is the real issue. The mode is clearly built for CAS/SEAD and objectives, but the game still rewards furballing more, so that’s what people do.
And honestly, the SPAA should be beefy and smart. Especially with anti-radiation missiles in play. That part feels intentional. The problem is the risk/reward just isn’t there, so most players ignore them instead of engaging with the system.
Your cooldown idea is actually pretty clean for stopping the suicide loop. I’d just be careful with forcing starter aircraft cuz that could feel a bit restrictive. But yeah, if they want this mode to play differently, objective play needs to pay.
Yea the aim9L did help F4E out a lot, but personally I still don’t think that’s enough cuz the radar and aim7 on F4E is still useless
Great…yesterday I got nice new matches all day long…
Today everytime I joined a match it was almost over already and I had to fly across half the map before reaching the enemy team…
I love how this event has turned into F15 vs MiG-29. Played a couple of matches in my own su24, and I was one of 3 people in my team not in a fighter. Due to this, 90% of my munitions were shot down since there was no one else near me to suppress. I tried stock grinding my BM that has been sitting in the hangar, just to never get within range of literally anything to use the rockets. It is 1000% more fun to play as the US in this mode than as Russia for sure.
Any tips for how to get started with this? I’m not gonna lie I’m mainly a groundpounding noob, so missiles/top tier jets make me want to kill myself in front of my mother, but I want a Tu-95/B-52. I could use some pointers (and the idiot devs can’t make a good top tier jet tutorial if it meant saving their worthless, degenerate skins.)
The American faction can’t find matches because there are too few players on the Soviet side. I’ve already been waiting for over an hour.
Please take measures such as enabling mixed matches or providing bot matches (눈_눈)
Have you tried playing 10.3 to 11.7 br bracket?
lol I gave up on the higher bracket after 2 hours.
This game mode is a gem. I never find high or top tier air battles fun, but this game mode is genuinely the most fun I’ve had in high tier air I hope to see it improved and returned soon after the event is done! (I also wouldn’t mind the nuclear part still being present in its return as its a really fun aspect)
No, after the matchmaking separation, I mainly build my deck around the F-15A at around 13.0 (12.7).
Do lower ranks around ~11.7 match more quickly?
It took me 3 seconds compared to sitting 2 hours for nothing.
I cannot agree whatsoever. This game mode is absolutely fucking awful. How the hell is anyone supposed to play this without already being a crack addict to modern fighter jets? Not everyone plays these stupid things, not everyone can spend 23~hours a day playing these, and some of us just want to try and get the new event vehicles without TEARING OUR EYES OUT from frustration. Are you blind already?
And no, not everyone wants to watch eight hundred different 40-min documentaries of tutorials just to learn how to play this garbage. It’s all just stupid, and it goes to show just how stupid gaijin is, again. They can’t grasp the idea that ‘hey, if we make a game that covers a wide base of machines, we’ll have a wide base of players - so maybe we need a wider base of tutorials!!1111!!’. So yeah, it’s a piss poor event by a piss poor dev team, trying to make more money.
Yeah lower brackets is almost instant, if anything for more comfort you can bring anything that isn’t above 12.0, I bring my F-4J because a PD Radar is essential in this event and I get matches in the US almost instantly
