That would be great. I nearly quit the game because my squad split a coupla years back and I miss playing scenarios. The MA is just a rammy with little strategy. Sometimes its fun. Doesn't help that even after 10 years I still get my bellybutton handed to me in dogfights by whippersnappers with better situational awareness/quicker reflexes/better shooting than me
I don't have that much time either what with kids, work and Battlefield BC 2
Of course people are gonna say "don't moan about the MA, take a leadership role and set up missions yourself" which is true.
in any arena in this game, we can all make our own fun.
i pretty much friggin HATE the lw arenas. they suck in my book, 'cause they're populated with ace pilots, hotards, alt monkeys, pickers, runners, and spawn campers. i know there are some good fights to be had in there, but they're hard to find.
for this reason, i was flying mw almost exclusively. sometimes no fights to be had. so i'd take a set of lancs, and do silly crap, like plan my route, and drop a single egg on each radar tower along my chosen route. sounds silly, but it's kinda fun in a weird way, and almost always gets someone to come up and chase me. normally they think i'm a noob, and attack me right when i'm at the drop point, and they do this from
dead six. dead six is called that for a reason.
other times, i took lancs and went deep into enemy territory, to bomb their main cities near hq.
then my stubborn bellybutton finally tried ava. and you can ask jaeger1....for a loooong time i was being an bellybutton about it, stirring up poop in his threads about it. i eventually ended up apologizing to him, because i was wrong. then ranger put the twin rivers map up. that combined with jaeger1 telling me the pee38 was available.......lured me in there.
i've not flown any of the other arenas since. no one in there? take a cannon bird, and go straffe some v-bases. if there's heavy bombers enabled, take up a set, and bomb some stuff. those two things are pretty much guaranteed to get someone in there. it generally snowballs from there.
the maps are small, so if you see only 10 or 20 pile-its in there.....that's the equilivent of about 150 to 200 in the lw arenas with those gihugic maps.
then top it off with the immersion you get from having to id the plane you're fighting, not having that red neon sign telling you when he's close enough to shoot at......
then there's the comraderie.........with only a couple of exceptions, EVERYONE in there is friendly. i was in a fight, which i started at a disadvantage, aajager came along. he asked if i wanted help, and i asked him to hold off. he did. he even covered my bellybutton from an incoming con. that kind of stuff is the norm there. jaeger1 even escorted a couple of us allied guys home.
you can't go wrong in the ava.
now i'm gonna head home, and log in, since it seems the big bomber escort run is canceled.