There also were maps where the objectives weren’t just “kill all enemy planes lol”
Themed maps with special nation match ups as well
sure, you can theoretically scale it down even for non-nuclear era.
Like, you will have regular ostwinds defending ww2 cargo points, you will bomb them on il-2 or pe-2, then you will grind for strategic big bomb of pe-8/lancaster as a match-ender, idk. Could be possible.
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War thunder feels like missing devs with real passion to make good game modes and not just kill all enemy player modes
It was on paper, but then at the end, it was just 30 mins of flying in your He-111 and then get instagibbed by some AI hitscan SPAA, because other planes couldn’t kill you if you were in a bomber before the nerfs
Yeah, 'member wake island? The US team attacking from the carriers and the japanese taking off from the airfield. Good times
Now we would argue on which team has more bias because the japs would have to takeoff while the US had airspawn lol
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True, they just need to move in some direction and looking for vision
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There are Devs with loads of passion, the higher ups don’t care enough about the experience though, they want money.
The game devolved over time because the average player apparently prefers small map death matches without any meaningful side objectives
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This is unfortunally the harsh truth. The devs did surely have their ideas, but the push towards oversemplification came from the community.
are you dead serious?
Seems like WT is also suffering for low attention span players syndrome
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F-4E doesn’t have PD at all. All F-4s up to the F-4J had a pseudo-doppler where you would use the continuous wave seeker in the sparrow and preload aspect information and then you would fire it off without a lock, and the missile would look for any target that matches that aspect profile.
I didn’t play that far back, but I’ve seen that map every now and then pop up and it always makes me sad
There are a few scenario maps that I’ve seen pop up in actual ARB matches once in a blue moon and they all are reminders of what the game could be now…
I always loved the Britain map, it’s one of my favourites and there’s one island map that I can’t remember the name of that always was a treat to play on
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“welp, completed USSR task in 2 battles…”
“…US task must be a cakewalk if its the side that dominat-”
Jeez
It’s ironic. There were some ideas that were too ahead to be good back in the days, and those ideas would fit the game perfectly right now.
Probably the only game that had this kind of evolution.
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I really don’t want to get my hopes up, but Aerial Warfare could finally let us play a mode with the depth that the game once tried to provide
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Let’s hope it happens. I’ll go to bed now, it has been nice discussing with you. Have a good night everyone
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Yeah, was nice to actually have a discussion and not whatever I had with that Flanker guy
It’s always great to see people that you can have proper discourse with, even when there are disagreements!
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I would imagine them making this a separate mode as they stated in q&a session that arb is ideal as it is.
Their plan could be to have a mode for everyone. Faceless and Generic ARB for those who just want quick pvp shooter matches. And then there will be aerial warfare for those who yearn for actual gameplay.
Hope they will do the same with grb and naval, maybe. But that will take another 10 years for them…
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Naval has EC on the weekends at the very least
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