It has become a really widespread and common thing, that even very capable fighter jets such as MiG-23s, Mirage F1s, J-7s are bombing bases. But why? I can see the pro of extra RP of course, but you’re essentially handicapping yourself for that -chance- of getting a base. Players like this usually get killed first, because they tunnel vision on the base instead of actually playing their fighter jet like it’s supposed to be. This ruins games, and on top makes strike aircraft grind torture and basically making the entire match unplayable for them. Now what could be the solution for this? I can see a couple, such as nerfing the rewards for fighter jets for bombing bases, so that it would no longer be worth it to bring bombs with them. Another one could be with the addition of larger maps, the bases being placed further away on the map. EC maps already proved that in these cases the fighters will give up on the bases while strike aircraft can cruise their way to them. I would like to see your ideas as well because I think this is a really big problem in Air RB.
What’s with all the bombing posts recently? No shame to you @Rokakoma_HUN btw. Did something change?
I’ll answer the post now mb.
I think it’s 2 things. How easy it is, and bots. I think it’s bots. Sure, the ease of SL and RP gain is massive, but I cannot see how bombing bases isn’t mind-numbingly boring. So it has to be like 80% bots.
Nothing has changed, It has been like this for years now for sure. People are just getting fed up with it finally. It makes strike aircraft unplayable. Now I don’t know if they’re bots or not, there are surely a lot of bots but players do this a lot, mainly low levels.
negative reinforcement is a toxic manipulation method, not a way to cure an issue in video games. In this case you ask for nothing but nerfing rewards for one group of players and expecting that to go over well without trying at all to understand the circumstances of why players want to bomb.
I’ll share my post from another thread. Bombing + fighting gives better rewards
No, just being a bit of an echochamber lately here on the forums. Lots of minority complaining. People just want the game to be TDM even if that means ruining the game for many vehicles and/or other players. Very few people are offering real solutions to this other than “nerf rewards” or “remove bombing”
Seems it became widespread that the premium F-4EJ can destroy a base with Zuni rockets and faster than almost all jets other than f-104 and mig-23, so there’s a trend of F-4EJ bombing these days.
What’s your solution then? You’ve complained about mine enough yet haven’t given anything in return.
The F4 destroying bases with rockets is just a new trend. As long as players can get easy RP in a game that has an insane amount of grinding, they are going to take every opportunity to get easy RP.
RB EC needs to become the primary gamemode. Gaijin would not be willing to make the necessary changes to air RB as it stands to fix it.
Air RB EC with respawns like in Sim battles would solve a lot of the issues.
I made that point too yeah. It gives much more flexibility between each role.
Also, does anyone know if bombing a base gives more than a kill or not?
it does. check my post above
Thank you mate love you
Indeed.
When I use F-4F Early or F-4E, I carry both full AAA load out AND base-bombing payload.
I bomb a base and then go off for the dogfights- and I still get more RP from the base than I do from 1-2 enemy aircraft destroyed.
And I hate that everyone TKs me and calls me “zomber” for “bombing with a fighter” just because they see me with rockets/bombs on a Phantom…
I mean, I can understand getting angry at F-5s or MiG-23s because those are excellent fighters that on the other hand don’t have enough payload to destroy a base and are just annoying…
But when you are on a F-4F without radar missiles or countermeasures, armed only with 4x9Js and facing AIM-9L and R-60M spam… I think it’s reasonable to want to ensure some RP before going into a dogfight with mediocre missiles and a flying brick against all-aspect 30+G missiles while you have no flares.
I give F-4s the right to do it, they suffer enough already with that airframe. But when extremely capable jets like MiG-23s, Mirage F1s and J-7Ds are bombing bases, it just drives me insane
Agreed!
Thank you so much oh great one for granting us mere mortals the right to bomb