So it would not change much. That’s the issue.
To come back to the topic:
Name a single good reason to not just add an additional gamemode where only ground vehicles are allowed.
!!!Spoiler alert!!!: there is none
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IMHO. Because all the tankers will goto a TO mode and all the CAS players will complain, leave or both. They brought premium planes to
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That would prove that combined gameplay as it is doesn’t work
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Does not prove anything, just my opinionznd i dont speak for Gaijin.
We all know CAS is strong in you 😆.
i dont get why people cant get there head around that it is what is and that is a ground attack mode not a tank mode, where does it say for tanks only. They even named there latiest update “Air superiority”
Gaijin needs to set the players right and say this game is about xyz
So tell them that there is no point in playing ground units in ground realistic mode?
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They said exactly that a while ago.
Which bit did they say, because i never hear them and by the sounds of it not many others did either
When asked, whether they would add a TO mode, they said no, because they do not think that such a mode would be interesting. It was in some Q&A quite a while ago, might have been 1-2 years.
So people should not want a place to play with just tanks?
You are putting words in my mouth. I just posted photograph of mode description
I’m just asking a question, not putting anything in Your mouth.
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I think gaijin needs to rename what is current to something else like ground assult and they need a new mode selection screen as world war is not being used. And then maybe if demand is there ground could be just tanks.
I do.
It tells me that one unit is extremely impactful on the match, and therefore has to be gated because it’s a power up. Meanwhile, the other unit (which is the intended counter) is so overmatched that it has to be balanced by making it cost one tenth of the SP of the planes it supposedly counters.
So what does that tell you? If the two units really were balanced against one another, do you think there would be such a dramatic SP difference?
The game’s own usage of SP as a balancing factor is setting up SPAA vs air as a David vs Goliath kind of thing. While overcoming the odds always feels good, in game design terms that is by definition not a counter.
If Gaijin is serious about “combined arms” GRB, they need to completely rework SPAA.
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Ive just started grinding britian and my SPAA are way being on being spaded
I play them too, and I am determined to learn how to use them.
But your individual performance and wider opinions on balance are separate topics.
Get near middle of map as you need to be close to enemy aircraft there range is not good, you got more chance of hitting a plane if they are heading towards or away from you, if not use plenty of lead. Dont wasr ammo if they are far from you
yeah, tell me which wins- 10 SPAA or 1 aircraft.
The team gets 10 SPAA spawns to kill the plane to a single plane spawn.
Or even 5 tanks.
Kills and spawns are not made equal, that’s the whole point of the SP system. Vehicles are not intended to be 1:1 balanced to each other, they’re balanced by the ratio of SP. The same system is used for say heavy tanks vs mediums, or uptiered tanks vs downtiered ones. Are you going to whine about those being unbalanced as well? Are you going to complain that nukes are OP, despite the whopping 2.5k spawn cost?
There is an opportunity cost to spawning SPAA.
That’s one of the things I still haven’t found a balance I’m happy with, actually. It’s a bit of a catch 22. Someone needs to clear the skies, and someone needs to quickly rush back to the cap and contest it or we’re gonna lose. You can only do one. Players of this game will very quickly focus on the times you should have spawned SPAA and didn’t, but then again, I know for a fact there have been plenty of times where the opposite happened, I spawned SPAA and regretted it.
Now, you could arguably say the same for aircraft in a way. Planes can’t cap. A team with 10 SPAA is toast. A team with 10 planes can also be toast if they cede complete control of the map. I’ve seen it happen for sure.
But look, at the end of the day, the logic is elementary: the only ones in possession of the full data are Gaijin themselves, and Gaijin made a deliberate balance choice to make SPAA the cheapest units you can spawn in GRB, cheaper by an order of magnitude compared to planes. They would never do something like that if SPAA was truly as impactful to the match as airplanes are, on a consistent basis.
It doesn’t surprise me either. If you’re good in SPAA (and I’m not, but I hope to be one day), you can punish bad players who are flying. But if you take two players of equal very high skill, and put one in a plane and the other in an SPAA, the plane will win, every time.
Yeah. That’s sort of my point. The ratio of SP is an attempt to counterbalance the serious gameplay deficiencies that SPAA currently suffers from. I think it would be much better if instead we could fix those deficiencies and then raise the cost of SPAA accordingly. Otherwise, it will never truly be the counter Gaijin wants it to be.
You can characterise my opinion as whining as much as you want, but I’m simply expressing my opinion, civilly and calmly. It is completely possible that I’m wrong, god knows it’s happened in the past.
Heavy tanks and medium tanks have minimal differences between them in terms of SP. In a full downtier for example, you pay 160 for a heavy, and 150 for a medium. That suggests the differences between them are rather small.
Not so planes and SPAA.
Nukes are a fantastic mechanic, and their SP cost is perfectly balanced. I wish we had more mechanics like that which rewarded outstanding performances from individual players.
I don’t see how it’s pertinent to my argument though. A nuke, which is an insta-win unless you’re shot down on your way to the ground battle, costs 2500 spawn points. It sounds like Gaijin took into account how powerful the nuke is, and made sure that it’s very difficult to obtain.
An SPAA costs a pittance. It sounds like Gaijin took into account that it’s outmatched, and made sure that it’s very easy to spawn in. The end.
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