The event is very poorly made, very crowded map with very poor layout of spawns and targets, it would have been more playable if it had arcade reload mechanics for weapons and air spawns, or was less crowded with a larger map and small teams. But instead we get this awful map that is so crowded with sam you legit cant fly above 100m without having missiles come at you from 10 differen OSAs, and on top of that no reloading and land spawns that make playing as an attacker such a bore.
The devs just keep proving they have no clue how to design fun coherent gameplay with the mechanics they add, they just know how to shove things in sideways and leave the playerbase to try to squeeze some fun out of things…
Which is a good decision from Gaijin, the rewards with a premium look really good. But it should have been so apparent what a balancing nightmare it would be and how unfair it is for people that didnt grind US or USSR.
The amount of players that own US premiums or the IRIAF massively inflate the US player count, there’s only one good USSR premium, the MiG-23ML. Neither the Su-39, Su-25BM or the MiG-25PD are worth bringing, so almost nobody bothers with them.
(well, I’ve been seeing plenty of MiG-25s, but I can’t imagine that people will keep spawning that after a while)
OSAs are intercepting Mach 3 AGM-88s. The map is covered by palm trees, which makes locking stuff through them impossible. TV-guided missiles are useless in this event.
lmao, I said that after the first couple of deaths in my first game, but then everything suddenly clicked
flying extremely low, spamming flares, eventually a couple of enemies got close enough to launch missiles
after getting 250 spawn points I could consistently equip the small nuke, fly to a cluster of enemies, drop it, and get enough spawn points for the next one
try to use the side bases where there are no enemies
got 5k points even though it was my very first game flying top tier jets
I 💯 agree. The biggest reason I do NOT play ARB is because of ONE SINGLE SPAWN. I hate it. It makes players behave like ravenous dogs because they want to get at least ONE kill before they are sent back to the hanger.
I LOVE this combo of RB controls + models etc, with the SL spawn of SIM/EC (idk which it is, I do not play SIM or EC, so I am not versed on how they work.)
I would play this type of mode a LOT if it is made a permanent thing. Especially if it is made into a combined arms mode where we could also spawn our tanks in.
Yeah its actually crazy that they didnt think about stuff like that. Imagine if they allowed German GDR planes for the russian side, that would be at least some help with the one sidedness.
not really its rather unbalanced MIG 29s vs F4E or F15A vs MIG-23 MLD if you dont play america or russia also these bombers should have been tech tree no need for them not to be B66B should have been event instead honestly dumbest choice ever
Or even give players with said airframe a spaded vehicle that’s only available for export nation users.
Like if you have the Tyskland Mig you’d have access to a spaded version of the Soviet model. Keeps things on par with their current Soviet airframes, same for the F16, ect ect.
