Remove Enduring Confrontation & Reintroduce Scenarios from Air Realistic Battles?

Game Discussion Simulator Battle
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I was a big fan of Enduring Confrontation but since it has not been worked on for 2 years, most aspects of the game mode no longer work correctly. Some examples which are by no means exhaustive:

  • AI Bomber Aircraft flying in circles on D4 indefinitely
  • AI Attacker aircraft always collide with terrain on certain maps
  • Ground convoys are impregnable because their anti-air escort is over-tuned.
  • Sessions which are over 1 hour old always start having de-sync issues (e.g. other planes & terrain start stuttering).

Air RB maps don’t consistently have such issues with their AI scripts and they have 1 hour time limits which avoids the de-sync issue entirely.

So I think giving those maps to the SB mode is the best short term solution for all the problems with EC. Of course, I always hope to see EC or some equivalent get updated again. But I think it will be a major challenge to dedicate anyone to fix scripting that hasn’t been worked on for 2 years vs importing working maps from another game mode.

I am ambivalent about what kind of re-spawn & lobby mechanics we would end up with.

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Having multiple airfields AND dynamic objectives that split up the lobby to dilute the player count was my initial reason to flying air sim looking for dogfights.

ARB scenarios encourage furballs. While we do still get furballs in ASB - especially places like Ruhr or Tunisia - you’re also quite likely to encounter people away from the main event giving you fun 1 vs 1 or smaller team fights.

The issues you listed also feel more prevalent at jet and 128x128 maps. The D4 circling I think is basically a Denmark and Dover Strait only bug, no? Likely due to naval targets altho I’d not seen it on Moresby props so maybe it’s more than just that.