I agree with you, especially regarding people who never touch planes, but that’s exactly why this discourse is happening in the first place. Some people don’t branch out, and honestly the way the game is presented to people they shouldn’t have that expectation. War Thunder is not an aircraft-centric game anymore. When the first search result self-describes the game as “Fight on Land, on Water and in the Air. Experience authentic Battles.”, people just aren’t going in with the expectations they’ll need to diversify their lineup.
Regarding queue times, idk. People wait for long periods of queue time to play other competitive games like Counter Strike. I think that with everything else this community has put up with, queue times wouldn’t be a huge issue, provided they didn’t massively increase.
I have a feeling most people wouldn’t migrate to a tank only mode anyway. The experienced people who have a solid tank and CAS lineup would stay in Ground RB, those who really are bothered by it would leave.
I still think the data shows though, that a large percentage of the community doesnt have any issues with CAS being in GRB, but it needs changes and i think the results are semi-biassed as people against CAS are more likely to come onto the forums and vote than those that have no issue with it.
I think the first steps should be to resolve the issues with SPAA first and then if that fails, try a 2 week event with a ground only mode to test it out.
I find it amusing how the CASvocates are so quick to scream “BIAS!” when the publicly available poll results aren’t what they want to see, yet also at the same time having zero credible evidence to prove there is any form of bias.
Pretty funny stuff.
What data ? Every time there’s a poll it always shows that more than 50% doesn’t want it or want it to change heavily and everytime the pro CAS go “oh no but wait those arent’ reflective of the community”. No one likes CAS, except for those who abuse it, deal with it.
Those who dont like it, will come onto the forums and complain about it. But those who do like it have no reason to come onto the forums
If it was the other way rouns, and CAS was too weak or SPAA to strong. Youd have more people coming onto the forums to vote the other way.
The data will always be inherrently biased.
If nothing else, that data is not a landslide. Its 50/50 split between those who want CAS in grb and those that dont. Are changes needed yes. But deleting CAS for ground modes will have far greater negative impacts
It’s not the ground community’s fault Gaijin shoe-horned in a bunch of vehicles (helicopters) that simply do not belong, unless you want to put them into their own Air PVP mode. I’m tired of tankers being asked to “take one for the team” whether it’s helicopters, bombers, strike planes or something else needing a mode where they get shit on because their own mode isn’t fun enough.
Crap, one of the buggiest things ever added too WT
No CAS
This is the only option, but most dont like SB settings. This is where i usually play CAS, but it has its issues.
Point is, delete CAS from grb, then might as well delete CAS aircraft altogether. Weve been waiting for a decent heli gamemode independent of GRB for over a year now
Cool story, let us delete every game mode except for one game mode that has all vehicle types in it then because of MUH QUEUE times and MUH SPLIT COMMUNITY.
Additionally, if a tank only mode were added and it starved out combined battles then that speaks for itself.