Their response regarding top tier battles and maps was extremely disappointing and depressing to say the least. Big maps only work in top tier because MBTs and light vehicles are faster and more featured than at lower ranks, they can’t even be arsed to make an option to opt into larger maps, I don’t care if I have to wait for longer in the matchmaker, playing city maps 24/7 is exhausting.
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Lol, nobody plays it, so we don’t make any improvements, that way nobody will play it. Easy. And what about the most played modes? No improvements there either, since they’re the most played, why bother doing anything?
Do they even play the game sometimes?
A CM disclosure, Dev Blog, and QnA, all in the same day?
What a great day today was! I’m going to watch now.
The news of a new Aerial Warfare mode is fantastic. Any idea on timeframe yet?
Paper sheet answers:
A) Players are at fault
B) Sometimes we’re at fault
C) We can’t do anything about that
D) Players are at fault
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Larger maps would solve almost all of GRB’s problems, especially those from 10.0 and above. It would be better for SPAA to do its job against helicopters and CAS. Certain types of tanks could go to different locations where they are better suited. The gameplay would be freer and better; you wouldn’t have to be stuck somewhere, and you wouldn’t have your BUK destroyed because some bastard is seeing the tip of your launcher from the other side of the map. We need more maps like Fulda, Eastern Europe, Poland, etc., but the rest of your answers were satisfactory. I see people complaining about the helicopter mode. Well, even before FnF, this mode was never famous, and we have more things to review than that. The helicopter mode works too well for grinding helicopters because you just hover and fire your missiles; you don’t need to worry about anything. As for Air RB, it’s much easier to fix: larger maps, nerf to multipath, maps more similar to the Pyrenees, and reviewing the FM of some planes, fixing the broken TVC. And modeling correctly, and fixing the radars, in short, in GRB we need bigger maps, that’s the only thing that disappointed me, the rest was satisfactory, they really listened to us about players who leave after a death and don’t have other vehicles.
Edit: @Morvran will be happy in December, something big is coming to the UK, but I’m too lazy to play with my Challenger 2, I’ll continue playing Air RB until next year, i’ve been out of GRB for a month.
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I love how half the Q&A is:
-User: “Are you guys going to do something with [x]”
-BVVD: No, lmao.
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If the leak list is right, that AESA for the EFT, so finally a half decent radar, Ajax so maybe a decent top tier AFV and the KGV, which… could be fun or could just be a free kill for the Soyuz.
Though what Id really like is Air Sim overhaul
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I don’t know what Soyuz is like, I have ships up to 5.0 in the USSR, and I agree the Eurofighter has been a horrible experience in recent months. At the beginning of the year, up until the middle, it was easily the second best jet in the game, but then with each update, buff Rafale, buff Mica, buff Rafale again, make Mica extremely difficult to notch, turn Mica into a missile for BVR and dogfights, while the Eurofighter’s radar is as blind as the Su-27SM’s N001VEP in 2024.
Cmon, have you actually watched it?
Every answer is supported with arguments. You do not need to agree with them, but making a false statement, that BVVD just answered “no” is wrong and misleading to ones, that did not watched it yet.
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Its a 9.7 ship at 8.7. Few things can actually damage it and it can one shot basically anything with ease. 7.7+ has been rendered unplayable unless you are in Soyuz or Iowa.
Yep, played a few matches the last couple of days, it does fine, but is a buggy mess.
If EC style maps are no longer planned and were shown to be disliked by playerbase
Are they going to be removed from rotation in ARB?
I think the hope was this Q&A would provide insight into the long term plan for the game (next year or 2) and instead it seemed to be a cherry picked selection of questions regarding features they dont really plan and have been denied. For example, making a playable heli mode
Let alone the answer themselves seemed more like PR excuses than actual reasons.
For example, UI update/overhaul has been needed for a very long time and its only gotten worse over the past year with a huge amount of extra clutter and no meaningful way to configure it. But the answer was no because it would be too much effort…
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Supported with very petty arguments at times. Saying things like: “We made maps smaller because they offer instant action” while ignoring all the downsides of them is just a pathetic excuse, specially at top tier where smaller maps make certain vehicles like SAMs and light vehicles suffer. “Instant action” = brain-dead head on gameplay.
WE WANT FREEDOM TO MOVE AS WE LIKE.
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im still waiting for the UH Tiger to get LFK-NG as an ACTUAL way to defend itself. it cant do anhything against a Z-10ME, Apache E or Ka-52
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So, according to him, we “just need” to hide behind a building or something to avoid FnF or having allies in AA destroy them. BUT DOES HE EVEN PLAY HIS OWN GAME?? How do we know when an IR missile is coming our way? At what point do players use AA in the early/mid-game and destroy missiles?
Not banning more maps because, according to him, we can ban up to 32 maps (at worst), and apparently we’re playing with players who have different banned maps than ours? WHAT??? When? Banning 5 maps wouldn’t cost them anything, but no. It would PLEASE the players because apparently they “like” their players, but no, not that.
No bigger maps because “the players” prefer smaller maps. Which player? What BR are these players? Because the top-tier tanks are just terrible. We have tanks that can fire over 3 km, but most battles are at 150-500m. Incredible use of the capabilities of modern vehicles. And I’m not talking about WWII vehicles; it’s possible to fire over 1 km without any problem, but no, the “players”…
PvE/PvP in helicopter battles. The game mode is niche, and nothing is planned to improve it. I don’t know, but letting it die instead of paying attention to it, improving it, and I think, even sure, that it would become less niche and more popular. But I’m not sure, because apparently, improving a niche mode doesn’t make it better, right?
Top-tier premium vehicles are, well, top-tier vehicles, and it’s ridiculous to say they don’t have top-tier combat capabilities because they are clearly copy-pasted from certain tech trees (Clickbait, Type 90, Su-30, Ariete, Challenger 2, F2A, T-80, etc.), and sometimes even better (depending on the br). So yes, they are offering top-tier access to new players and they’re not owning up to it because, I think, but I’m not sure given the state of the game, money.
So the video is basically: we have problems in the game, and instead of fixing them (like a tank-only game mode), we’re going to work around it and pray that it coagulates well.
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Yes i saw the whole damn Q&A, I have never seen a group of developers more out of touch with reality, with their own game and with their player base in my entire life.
Its a joke to see half the questions, as others already pointed out, blaming anyone but themselfs.
HAVE YOU you actually watched it? Or answers from other users on this post? They have better points than me.
Take a look a the SQB question for example (13:54), do you think that after playing 2 months, being the nº1 squad and nº1 player of said squad, getting only 1200GE its balanced??? There is a whole ahh post in the forum trying to change the mode for the better, and all they can say is:
“Nah, its good as it is”
But i guess at this point no one is surprised by an answer like that from gaijin
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Wrong, they most important part was the end. Their never going to release the basement guy
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Exactly my thoughts, which players and what players are they talking about? They never asked me or the community about it before, so how could they know better than us? Their “metrics” don’t tell the whole picture.
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I mean theres disagreeing with what was said, and then theres calling out statements such as “player feedback is collected and taken into account”.
Like, cmon lol.
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