The biggest reason is because of only ONE stupid spawn. Makes everyone play like rabid dogs. I HATE the game play. Air Arcade is a MUCH better experience. Matches last longer. People actually play objectives. “Realistic” matches last like 5 minutes. Can’t even get to an objective most of the time before the stupid match is over, or ticket bleed ends it before I can actually do anything, especially with my strike aircraft. (Doesn’t matter if I play fighters anyway, matches still end in minutes.)
I DO like the Realistic controls, flight models, everything. I would absolutely play ARB if I could spawn more than once. Heck, even THREE spawns like in Ground Arcade and I would play ARB.
BUT THIS EVENT IS AMAZING.
I LOVE the Realistic models and flight controls and LOVE the “infinite” spawn in with SL’s. I would play this mode SO much if it was available. Especially if they made it combined arms were we could take in our tanks AND even ships.
THIS is why I started playing War Thunder 10 years ago. THIS is what I have wanted. PLEASE Gaijin, make this permanent 🙏
You do not need to kill players to get a nuke, just hop in a strike aircraft and kill some ground units until you get the 5 or 30kt nuke. By then you just farm airfields are good to go. Even if you die, bombing a single airfield or ammo depot will give you enough to spawn nuke again.
Absolutely NOT “Just ARB”. In ARB you only get ONE spawn. That is the absolute worst thing about ARB. It is disgusting. Matches barely last 5 minutes. Air ARCADE is more “realistic” than ARB. Air Arcade matches actually last 10, 15, and even 20-30 minutes quite frequently. People actually playing objectives, working together. ARB is GARBAGE.
How many times a month do you have an ARB match at 13.0 BR last 30 minutes or an hour, that isn’t just two lone players trying to find each other for 30 minutes? 🤮 Never, that’s how often.
Not even close. This event and ARB are hardly comparable, the only thing “the same” is the flight models and controls. That’s it.
No, ARB is so detestable that I never play it. I play Air Arcade 100% of the time when I fly, and have a wonderful time in it. EVERY time. I can pull in my fighters, pull in my strike aircraft. But you only get ONE “chance” in ARB and then you are sent back to the main menu in minutes from the Fox 3 spam. It is absolutely abhorrent.
This is not “a break” from ARB, this is a solution.
Screenshot below is why I play Air Arcade and not stupid ARB. Instead of choosing ONE plane, I pick and choose which plane works best for the current situation.
And you can’t even change planes in ARB after you land! HOW STUPID!!!
Even in Ground Realistic you can keep spawning in different vehicles (if you have the Spawn Points). How on earth have so many of you not revolted with this STUPID single spawn in ARB for so long? Especially at the higher BR’s where matches only last 5 mins?!
I mean ARB is fine until there’s one player left playing spaceship and you spent 15+ mins chasing him for him to just crash and for no one to get the kill, or landing and not switching to a new plane, etc…GRB is fine tho.
We need at least the core gamemode (EC) to become permanent and the rest of nations to be added.
Playing the event has put many people (including me) in perspective on how stale ARB has grown over the years—even when Gaijin has made efforts of varying degrees to revitalize it—, this new gamemode has been a huge breath of fresh air, and the word in bold cannot be understated.
Balance can be addressed on the way, but I’m having a blast to the point I already grinded both nations marks just this past afternoon.
I think this should replace ARB and use this as a template(with obvious balancing and minor adjustment) as a new template Air sim battles. Air Sim is on life support. Given that infantry was a teaser last year and it now actually a new feature gives me a bit of hope that changes like this are quite possible
If enough ARB players demand it, the odds are much higher. Yes, a lot of people wanted the WW1 mode to continue, but it really wasn’t a large part of the player base.
If the majority of ARB players want this, and demand it, Gaijin would not have to worry about “fracturing” the player base.
About the only possible issue I see is the length of battles. But I think they should allow those of us who turn on the “join active battles” to join one of these ongoing “RB+EC” modes for something like the first 30 minutes, or even an hour. I wouldn’t care. I personally have not cared during this event being thrown into an ongoing battle. MAYBE it could be tied to score, so something like after 50% to 75% of the tickets have been burned stop new players from joining the match.
Yeah, actually I think score would be a better metric. Figure out a reasonable cutoff % to halt the addition of new players to the match. Better than time. Some of these battles can go 30-45 mins before even half the tickets are burned.
I personally keep the join active battles option turned on almost all the time. That way, those who HAVE to leave in the middle of a battle for IRL can be easily replaced. Thus keeping the current match going, and relieving pressure on those who don’t want to, or can’t continue playing a long term battle. Let people come and go as they please. Maybe not to the degree that SIM does, but I honestly do not think it is a deal breaker. (I have played ONE SIM match in 10 years lol, so please feel free to add/correct me on any details. I am NOT knowledgeable about SIM stuff 😉 )
This is the first update/mode/test in…maybe in my 11 years of playing War Thunder that I have felt so enthusiastic about a new potential game mode. I LOVE this. So many options. I LOVE playing my fighters. I LOVE playing my strike aircraft, and would LOVE playing my bombers if they had a useful job to do.
And I would LOVE to bring in my Tanks and/or Botes into the mix. Especially for the US, I have a full lineup for Land Sea and Air. And I would be ecstatic to hop into whatever vehicle is needed for one of these matches. I also have the entire Ground and Sea trees unlocked for Russia, and pretty close to completing the air tree there as well. I could switch to whichever side is lower in the queue to help get matches going, or support an ongoing battle that is short one side.
it would be a cool mode but there are more vechicles that should be forbidden like the persian f14 or dont forbid any vechicle because right now the USA have a big advantage and you should que for a random team instead of choosing one yourself
