The Weather exists, yes.
Said weather also tends to lead to grounding of aircraft.
Some clouds are OK, but “Low Cloud Cover” as a weather should not exist.
Please refer to my post here for examples for acceptable and unnaceptable weather.
Deal with it, what else? come on dude
As absurd as banning flying in certain weather conditions? You know those maps when you take off in hidden valley on the clouds and the entire terrain is hidden by clouds. Not in a million years would any nation waste pilots if they had a large risk of running into terrain. I don’t think weather should be banned, but low altitude clouds need to be drastically reduced to minor fog or removed altogether, as those are not realistic flying conditions for combat mission, and more clear days should be seen.
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Majority of the maps are absurd both air and ground in terms of active battlefields/ engagement zones.
There are many absurd things ingame if related to realism or being 100% accurate.
The point here is I think banning particular weather conditions is not conducive to gameplay, immersion, queue times etc and is just another example of “please cater the game to my specific wants” - which may sound great to many - but they fail to consider how it could be applied to thousands of other players also.
We cant all have it our way.
This is the game, play it.
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Weather absolutely exists. Not saying it doesn’t. But that does include clear days with little to no clouds. And I havent had a match in close to 100 games where there wasnt clouds dominating anywhere between a third to three quarters of the map. It gets old.
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Well currently you aren’t getting any because EVERY match has plenty of clouds in it.
Lets say you are right . . . . .
Having the ability to ban maps with certain conditions is a terrible idea and people should stop whining.
Nah I’m tired of people parking in the 1km thick cloud layer to deny any and all counterplay
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aww
candidates are the same thing as considered in this situation
Wow, holy… that’s extremely insensitive to those who died after 1943; I’m guessing you don’t know that that’s completely incorrect as well. The war ended in 1945 in Europe and the Pacific… the war in Europe Europe ended in May, the Pacific ended in August, obviously, if you got that wrong you, and Narrative??? what are some kinds of conspiracy theorists??? LMAO you seriously don’t know what your talking about one bit you were off by 1.5-2 years
If it works for you, why are you here? Clearly you dont have an issue with the constant cloudy maps. Im going to let you in on something I figured the average person would have picked up by now. A lot of us complaining about the wildly overuse of clouds, aren’t really for the idea of banning maps with weather “we dont like”. Maybe, just maybe, we are trying to let Gaijin know to chill it on the use of cloudy settings. Something that is entirely doable without banning weather 😮
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I dont have issues with it either actually
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These weather conditions are never unattractive.
This doesn’t benefit either team, it just harms the gameplay.
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What ridiculous analogy. Banning weathers = banning some battle environment, can’t be compared to banning player’s things at all. It benefits all the players! Haven’t you been in a match where the toxic clouds appear on the runway and a bunch of players in both team crash just after takeoff?
The clouds and weathers are not a big problem though. What make people angry is the crazy clouds on the ground on some maps (especially Mystery Valley, Rocky Pillars) which enforce you to fly high (so bases and ground targets become useless) or take the risk crashing.
I believe a good playerbase should give PLAYERS more freedom. Hence I’m against to those “ban cas” or “ban bushes” rants. However banning weathers, just like banning maps, is a completely different thing.
there is no variety in WT, is either clear (very rare), mildly cloudy or entire map covered by one low and thicc cloud, thats true for both air and ground
Maybe let Gaijin add an option “join toxic clouds battle” (just like the night battles option. Night battles aren’t toxic though) , and let people like you go ENJOY those DIVERSE battles which you can’t see anything but clouds after takeoff, crash into an unseen mountain after 30s and ENJOY the 8min crew lock
You know it’ll be a fun game when you load into cloudspam sunset. Unspotted people EVERYWHERE.
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I completely agreee and i’d say this should also apply to ground RB maps such as Vietnam and Italy (i always forget the new name), have one of their spawns facing a cliff a few seconds away, and many times there are clouds and if the pilot is distracted he can forget and crash.
Not to mention lately 50% of all matches or more have the “Low Clouds” or “Storm” weather, that makes CAS very difficult, i find it hard to believe 50% of the world is constantly under a roof of clouds, so there is no “realism” argument here, CAS already suffers in high tiers, and there feels like there is even more cloud maps than in low tier, and SPAAs can freely lock through clouds so to them it doesn’t matter.
As for AIR RB, some maps definelly do not mix with clouds, like Rocky Pillars and Mysterious Valley that when there is low clouds, it is almost certain there will be a few crashes.
This might be related to fact that you managed to die 671 times in your 776 Air RB matches. In other words - if you have no problem to die, weather conditions which might be suited to increase your deaths play no role.
This thread deals with clouds/difficult weather either as difficulty increase for the average player (crashes, fog/clouds on the runway) and impact of severe weather conditions on the game play.
Currently just 3 parties benefit from this weather:
- Experienced fighter players (or the usual cloud hiding players) able to use clouds to their advantage
- Noobs getting kills (running by accident into an enemy which did not see him coming) which would be rather unlikely in clear weather
- PvE players which can now ground pound for longer periods as no serious player wants to go low early game to intercept them as he gets swarmed as soon as his marker pops up low.
For everybody (else) who prefers a structured game play based on situational awareness these weather conditions make it way more difficult to enjoy matches.
That a hell of players (me included) manage to crash occasionally whilst dogfighting as a hill/mountain pops out of nowhere on certain maps - and others have trouble with take-offs and landings is not only annoying, it is often altering the outcome of battles. That is also part of the problem.
There is nothing wrong with some cloud matches here and there, but if clear weather became the exception it looks quite reasonable to address this topic.
Off-topic:
Your feedback quoting me (btw explicitly marked by me as off-topic) looks like you need to look up the meaning of “off-topic” and you might consider reading some books. I admit that my assumption that you are able to connect some dots was wrong.