So we are all familiar with the arguement to remove planes from ground battles but i propose that we apply that same logic to ARB aswell.
All ground targets do in ground battles is just distract players from the main objective of killing other players to win the game. By removing ground targets and bombing bases (at least at 10.7+, what Gaijin considers “top tier”). This would FORCE players to learn how to play the game thus improving the quality of ARB games and as a side effect prem players might actually have fun as compared to the mindless base bombing gameplay loop. There have been too many times that I have lost winnable games because I lost 75% of my team in the first 3 minutes because they all decided to rush bases to get easy RP instead of getting 1-2 kills and winning the game.
Hey so uh, maybe removing a core mechanic of the game isn’t a good idea? If people decide to rush bases and die instantly that’s their problem. They wouldn’t be any better dogfighting I promise you that.
But the reason they are bad at dogfighting is b/c prem players take the easy way out to grind instead of fighting. If they were forced to fight instead of bomb then there would be a shift to get better at the game to grind instead of just rushing bases
You’d think that would be good, except for the fact that it would push them away from the game because they suck and there’s no progression, which would reduce player numbers SIGNIFICANTLY, not to mention no free targets for you and I ;)
Welcome to competitive multiplayer gaming as a whole. Regardless of the game, there will be teammates who do little.
However, for ARB, taking out ground targets is actively contributing to winning the match.
Destroying ground targets is very much PTFO’ing in ARB. Just because YOU don’t like it and YOU don’t want to do it doesn’t mean the teammates who do are being unhelpful. Need I remind you and the rest of the class that ARB isn’t TDM? Shooting down the entire enemy team is one option to win the match but not the ONLY option. Ground AI exists to be shot at to drain tickets, after all.
Sure all of this is just my opinion but even DEFYN has said multiple times that ground targets should not deplete tickets. If ground players want to fight tanks then as a air player I want to fight planes
I can’t be paid to give any less of a damn about what DEFYN or some other CC has to say about it. He wants to make takes like some cringe Fighter Jock, he can do that, and I can call the take out for being the stooge-level take it is.
ARB isn’t TDM. Never has been, and never will be. Get over it.
