Spawn from airfield at bad weather

[Rupert64]

The change that at “bad weather” conditions airplanes spawn from the airfield also affects arcade - at least naval. Had yesterday a number of matches where my “Stuka” JU87 has to start from the airfield - for this slow plane it took a long time to gain height and to reach the battlefield. For me its a additional nerf for planes. I don’t know if ground or air arcade is also affected. But I hope this will be reversed as bad weather doesn’t provide any cover or benefit for planes to compensate the negative efffects.

[Measured]

I’m really lost of why this change came in – what is its purpose?

(Especially in the Prop eras)
I know this is an arcade (and naval) post, but in Air RB and I’m in a bomber, particularly the bigger slower ones, I want to airpsawn in the cloud maps. So I can be above the clouds (hidden from people below the clouds), or I can descend a bit, get some speed and into the cloud, and also be hidden. It’s not difficult to spawn in clouds in bad weather… is it? Am I missing something? It’s better for all that I can see.

Also the times I’ve seen it call bad weather aren’t times it’s bad weather at all. Few dark clouds around, still lots of blue sky in between… this is bad weather?

I know the spawn location can be changed, but why force-change it to be airfield for so called bad weather?

Edit: This is a “bad weather” map (Air RB)

[vKALiBUR]

Idk bout lower tiers, but top tier you can still air spawn if you want

[SwingfireOP]

It came in to at least try to give gound vehicles a bit of peace from CAS.

That’s it.

I believe forced runway spawning should be all the tim

[SilentTracker]

Posting another players opinion too:

War Thunder "Leviathans" - Changelog

Can we get this reversed? Or at least limited to rain and storm? I know Gaijin is based in Europe and the EU believes just about any mildly inconvenient weather like a slight drizzle is world ending but being forced to do a ground take off because the clouds are a wee bit grey is well…just silly. Its a video game where you can pull a long 13G turn and not have your pilot suffer serious brain damage. I think we should be able to have an air start in a bit of inconvenient weather.

@MokaMoki pinging you in case you wanted to read/add more to this thread too.

And my 2 cents:

War Thunder "Leviathans" - Changelog

(I have not been playing matches with this mechanic yet, fwiw) So, spectating this from the sidelines, I LOVE “bad” weather in the game. Air/Land/Sea, all of them. LOVE it. HOWEVER, imo I do not think even 50% of the matches should be forced to do a land takeoff. Maybe 30% is reasonable? And/or I think I would agree that limiting it to real rain/storm/snow would be reasonable too.

[aimer45104]

atleast when they added it they could of added a setting to turn that shit of

[DontFlakWithMe]

Worst feature ever. I rage-quit every time I spawn on an airfield in Naval battles.

[Agent71]

Yeah, this is an issue in all game modes. Ground RB, Air RB, doesn’t matter. I have never experienced issues with air spawn in bad weather, defaulting to airfield spawn in bad weather is absolutely atrocious and should never have been a thing.