Well, I would like to play something more sophisticated than dropping bombs on bases.
In my opinion, most interesting planes for the majority of players are located at top tier.
Try to hunt for convoys using Su-25SM3 / Su-34. They are quite suited for this. But will outnumbered enemy team allow you to do this?
Again, I am honestly happy for you and for everyone who enjoy playing sim EC. I do not.
And it looks like significant amount of players consider sim EC for farming purposes only, not for gameplay.
Rightio Gaijin hater, why are you still here?
You should be glad that someone is still playing this half-dead game mode thanks to these people. Instead, you came to the forum to complain.
For killing two players, you receive almost the maximum reward that a zombie bomber would get for destroying two or three bases or five tanks. With a good aircraft, killing two players is incomparably easier. I don’t understand what the problem is.
“playing.”
So much fun seeing a bunch of 2-3 person lobbies on Denmark, Sinai, Vietnam, Afganisthan for 2.0-4.0 prop brackets filled with fw200s, b25s and yer-2s without a fighter in sight.
Maps where you can take off and the A point despawns by the time your 350-450 km/h early-mid war fighter reaches. It’s better over 4.0 where planes got better straightline speeds, but it’s still clearly maps not optimized for the pace of a prop tier battle outside of Smolensk and Dover Strait.
I don’t encounter this because I play on 11.7.
Why do you join such large maps with props?!?
You have a choice…
Guy claims PvE only zombers should be cherished for their contribution to player numbers for a “half dead game mode.”
I made it blatantly clear they provide nothing of value by spamming maps that don’t even have working objectives for slower props due to said objectives timing out by the time you reach them. There’s effectively zero difference made from them being there or not.
They do provide SL/RP for other players, i’ll give them that at least.
I actually find it funny seeing players expecging being able to play attackers/bombers without being targeted since they have a very limited role in other gamemodes.
At top tier killing one tank gives you 130 points, as far as I remember. Killing one plane gives you 600 points.
Tanks appear not so often. I have to change sessions to kill ground units.
Strike planes/bombers definitely deserve separate PvE mode.
As usual with these events the PvE demanders/zombers is back.
Had a few people becoming furious with me for daring to shoot them down as they «just want to bomb to grind the event».
If anyone of those people reads this, thanks for the free missionpoints
That’s probably what I like best about these events; people ask for PvE to get more points, but in the end, by playing normally, you can actually get more than them.
I mean… they added the ITO at a ridiculous low BR of 10.7
What plane can actively counter it ? Maybe one or two at that BR, which proves this is a shit solution.
The game having zombers is an issue, but Gaijin could simply nerf the ZOMBER things that give score, instead of nerfing it all around ( like that BS activity thing, they could’ve simply limited that to zombing only, but no… they decided to apply it to EVERYTHING.
So the issue here are 2 things:
Stupid solutions
Absurd grind
Just nerf base bombing score, increase dogfighting score and other mission stuff…
For example the whole carrier destroying and anti ship thing gives a stupid ass reward, and doesnt give much if you dont destroy it 100%
Result: No one does that shit.
So instead of allowing to actually make the PvE objectives relevant ( like give some good points for destroying carrier, that would make players protect carriers, and kill carrier killers… give good anti-players kills )
It would be somewhat a rock paper scisor thing, everyone wins if they play the objective right.
But now, Gaijin simply decided to take the worst possible solution to everything: nerf Sim rewards, and now they didnt really kill the zomber problem, they just shifted it a couple BRs.
Players who want to play sim without premium wont break even in SL.
So they should either revert the sim rewards and actually make it that you dont have to sell your kidney to pay the repair prices…
Im fed up, i’ve put a good chunk of cash in this game over the years, but lately its been simply bad news after bad news…
Thats precisely why WW2 sim is actually decent…
Zombers are a symptom of larger problems with the game. While yes, going after them to some extent is vital, going after them alone won’t really fix much.
They exist because of 1) game in general being too grindy which encourages botting behavior and sale of accounts for people willing to fork over the cash to skip the grind with on shady websites and 2) the fact that bombers, especially famous ones like the B-17, B-24, B-29, Lancaster, Halifax, and various jet bombers, are absolutely useless in Air AB or Air RB.
I always made an effort to land after every bombing run I did in Sim, but I was one of the people who mainly flew them in Sim because they simply didn’t work in RB.
I remember trying out zombing all of two matches in the Wyvern to see what it was all about, and I couldn’t imagine doing that long-term because it was so unbelievably boring.
The best solution the zombers will be deleting airfields as the “reward zone” and make the bases disappear from the map, instead of airfields and bases, more convoys or stationy units, impossible to destroy all of them by 1 bomb but a precise bombing.
yeah, give some more realistic objectives, like the ones from the SEAD / bombing gamemode gaijin recently tested.
I would however keep airfields as targets, but give them things like CRAM to shoot down bombs (unless you drop a large amount)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qznqW6u01iw
Im mainly a attacker / strike aircraft player and I also am affected by zombers, because they are the reason my rewards are not good and also there is simply not good targets.
I always try to get back to base, and also dont shy away from fighting players when they attack me
give us some target variety please.