Why reason whyy adding air spawn like its arcade
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They are making ARB more brainless for packs to rush into each other and die. By killing artistic parts.
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faster games = less rewards
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Playing devils advocate. At higher BRs, it does mean that instead of everyone taking off from a singular point, they can be spread out across the width of the map which does have quite a major impact on how those matches playout.
Additionally, unlike lower BR aircraft, top tier aircraft dont care about having to climb, and can hit 30k feet in the same amount of time it takes most props to get up to speed. So its just adding time for the sake of it.
Not played lower BRs in a while, so I dont know if they’ve changed the point in which airspawn became common, but it was always the higher end of rank 8 aircraft that had it before
true one good thing to come from air spawns, but wasnt this change just recently made with the latest major update, i remember before everyone just spawned in a big blob over the airfield before that
Yes it was, and that airspawn was terrible, but ive been rather liking the new, actually sensible airspawn we’ve been seeing since.
yeah its alot better now, i still kinda miss the airfield take off aspect from the games tho. Maybe they could introduce two multiple airfields on each side of the maps that you can spawn on, like how it is GRB with two spawn points on each side of the map.
This time they did this to low tier, and I’m afraid this is why we have the thing mentioned again :o
Multiple AFs was something I was pushing for for quite a while, but never happened. ASB has it and its a lot healthier imo
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Then yes, that is an issue. 12.0+ I dont think air spawn is that big of a deal. but below that point. Aircraft performance starts playing a greater impact and especially in lower BRs, its a core part of balancing props
yeah i think multiple AF would be better for the health of ARB instead of the spread out air spawns we have now, but gaijin prefers air spawns instead of multiple AFs since its a bit of a stealth nerf to the economy since shorter games giving lower rewards instead of longer lasting games
Higher level, how to make the game even more unpleasant for players…
I would play the role of a interested observer:
- They broke something in their settings
- This resulted in 5 vs 3 matches of just air spawn planes fighting each other - air field spawn aircraft could not spawn. Not on all, just a few selected maps
- Gaijin tech nerds were unable to identify the reason for that and decided that they grant air spawns for non-air spawn fighters on the affected maps
- They made a hotfix and announced “We fixed it” but they were just not capable to locate their error
In other words:
They have no clue what broke - or it is too expensive to fix - and added air spawns without considering the effects for the game play. Mainly as they earn money with jets, do not really care about props and realized that mainly prop bombers are affected (lesser chances to make it to a base) and the RP gains for all became smaller as matches became shorter…
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I play mainly low-mid props… getting an air spawn map, especially one that’s on the smaller side, really changes the character of the match.
Sometimes that’s good. Being on a small(er) map in a prop without a good climb rate is a terrible gaming experience. It makes matches a lot better generally for planes with poor climb by mitigating that weakness.
Sometimes it’s neutral - people do what they were gonna do anyway, the spawn point changes the timing, but nothing else. I see plenty of interceptors that throw away every bit of their air spawn, with smoke on, at match start… and plenty of others happy to do the same with fighters.
However, it DOES change balance. For example, there are NO circumstances under which I would choose the P-38L-5-LO if I knew when I hit “battle” that the map would feature an air spawn. Depending on how high you wanna fly, the P-47D-28 becomes a better choice at 4.7 and the Corsair at 4.3 just an overall better choice when they spawn and similar altitudes. Your match as a Lightning pilot get a LOT harder when you don’t have an air spawn advantage.
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