Recently airspawns have been getting added to pretty much all air RB maps at higher tiers, last small update added in a few more I think making all maps now an airspawn at higher tiers.
Also added in was the bad weather mechanic that defaults takeoff to the runway in the last major update.
There’s some serious problems with these being added to higher tiers that ruin the game some and arcadify it beyond what I would consider beneficial to anything gameplay.
The main issues with airspawns at higher tiers is that players are now spawning at almost full speed, at 3000metrres and immediately within fox 3 slinging range.
This does absolutely nothing for gameplay except make it braindead and encourage mindless missile slinging with less need for skill, it removes a lot of positioning and tactics and forces a more team deathmatch approach form the very off. And makes matches way shorter and furball madness too.
It psychologically also leaves you feeling less part of a team, so there’s way less teamplay (when that’s poor enough already a lot of the time) too.
Southeastern city was added in to this in the last update too, so now you’re spawning 65/70km from your enemy and at reasonable height too. Nothing about that makes that map experience any better and I’d argue just ruins it entirely. Please if you can’t consider reverting the abysmal airspawns added at least revert this one gaijin, it’s idiotic to have that on that map to put it mildly.
The advantage it also gives to some planes over others is entirely nonsensical, that an f111 spawns at the same speed as an a-10 but an f4 phantom is doing Mach 1.05 form the off seems a little ridiculous.
It also places some planes at a significant disadvantage compared to the slight disadvantage they had previously… harriers anyone?
Then there’s the thing of the bad weather mechanic that does nothing but mess up a team being together form the start as some spot it quick enough and can manually override it and get that airspawns anyway. Kind of defeats the whole point of the mechanic to start with surely.
I like taking off, I like the whole team trundling down the runway together and taking off together thing as a team, but we can’t do that as a team anymore because we now have to airspawn.
I really don’t like the way this particular thing is taking the game and how it feels currently. I’d quite like them all reverted to previous the takeoffs from runways only at higher tiers, but would also be ok with them on the bigger maps too
- Revert the airspawn additions in top tier ARB
- Keep the airspawn additions in top tier ARB
- Airspawns for big maps only
