Let me paint you a picture of how I see GRB EC. It’s very delusional and far-fetched, but please listen.
Imagine a server, possibly 32vs32 players, maybe even bigger(poor Gaijin). A massive map, similiar to what we have in Air EC, but not all of it will be playable of course for ground players.
In the center we will have the ground battlefield, the usual stuff. It should be probably 2-3 times bigger than the large maps that we have. If the gamemode is Conquest, then the map will have 5-9 objective points that players will have to capture. They won’t be in the smack middle of the map, they will be spread out, some of them on one half of the battlefield, some on the other, it doesn’t have to be symmetrical like what we have right now.
Each team will be have 2-3 layers of spawns. Forward spawn, that will be enables once the team captures closest point to them, Rear spawn, where they basically should be able to spawn ALONG THE ENTIRE SIDE OF THE MAP(A1-10 squares for example) and the FOB spawn.
FOB spawn will be a heavily fortified base in the far back, protected by layers of AI SPAA and AA systems, where players could rearm, replenish, despawn their vehicles and be defended in case their lines collapse or they are getting spawn camped.
Now, we described the tank battlefield. What about the rest of the map?
Well, first of all, there will be A LOT of AI units around the tank battlefield which can be used as targets for CAS and threat for tanks and aircraft. Artillery emplacements, which we used to have before, they could be destroyed to disable a team’s ability to call strikes(also protected by SPAA). FOB can be bombed and destroyed, given if you dare to challenge it’s formidable defences. You could go for an enemy airfield and try to bomb it to disable AI Air support.
There will be AI air! AI CAS which could be used similiarly to Artillery strikes, except SPAA players can shoot them and get more exp. AI CAP and Interceptors which will roam around their team’s side of the map and aggro onto anyone who dares to fly into their airspace. Moders AA system’s like Patriot and S-400 will swat down people who think that GBU bombing from 20km is funny and they are invulnerable.
The point being that Air players will not only have better stuff to do than to revenge bomb, it will be infinitely more difficult and unrewarding to do so.
That’s just a little bit of stuff I have on my mind when I mean we need new maps and gamemodes. And this surely will relieve most of people frustrations with GRB that they have right now. Granted, it would require an unprecedented amount of work, AI reworks etc, but this is the dream I have.
That one day, we would have a true EC Combined Warfare mode.
I should’ve made a thread myself :)