I started to play when air matches were way longer like 1 hour length, you could do many sorties per match. Now everything is so quick for air that is hard to do anything but rushing for kills before the match is over, arcade is more Air rb than Air rb now.
It’s sad we will never see EC again which was the funny part of the game.
I tried playing ground rb but I have same problems like how the maps are so flat and the gameplay does punish aggressive players.
What they did with nuclear thunder I wish was a permanent mode and spread to lower battle ratings, however gaijin wants to keep the players locked on that samsara wheel which is the current air realistic mode but people been asking EC for a decade now, that’s something it won’t change so I’ll move on.