Originally posted by Fariz
This update is one of the best I've seen up to date, because:
1) 110g2 is a great jabo, ki67 is a perkless arado. Both are great strat planes.
2) Voice totally changes the feeling of the game and adds to immersion.
3) Finally we got some great early war planes.
4) Strat is strat again. No "1914 trench war" style fights anymore, no hopeless gangbang. Welcome back buffs raids, fuel tactical strikes, hq missions.
5) Film viewer is a great training and learning tool, because now you can jump into enemy plane and watch how someone beat you, and which moves he actually uses.
6) Many good little changes, some are longly awaited.
WTG HTC,
Fariz Alikishibekov,
9 GIAP
Strat is strat again.. Ok lets analyse the situation..
Yesterday night when I logged on (380 players) the bish and the rooks had almost equal numbers, 110 or so.
The knights as usual had 160+ players. Ok, nothing new there.
Then an assorted group of those extra knights who have nothing to do (lack of enemies I suppose) choose to spend 2 hours climbing in lancasters and pork the rook hq repeatedly..
I saw at least 10 supply goons being sent to the hq in 20 minutes without ever seeing dar come back for the rest of the night.
So now situation was rooks blind, nits with superior numbers starting to take fields..
After 20 minutes of dar gone the bishops realised something was porked with rooks, they couldn't effectively fight back anymore.. So they started attacking rooks only.
Now situation was 167+120 = 287 players against 80 rooks (almost half logged after flying blind and outnumbered for half an hour..)
Milkrunners galore, nits started taking empty rook fields one after another making a nice streak inside rook territory. Due to overwhelming power the rooks wouldn't have a chance to defend even if they did have dar.
If this is what is called strat and no gangbang, I do not agree at all! Blindfolding the already outnumbered enemy results in 20 or more players attacking the 1-3 defenders that happen to be on the field. It sure doesn't feel like gangbanging anymore because the fields are practically empty. It feels like milkrunning which is what the 'strat' people are aiming for.
It was extremely frustrating to once again come to an arena where you had to play outrageusly outnumbered for the whole night. Add that to loss of dar and half of the already small number of countrymen logging off, it was simply a struggle for survival. Not much of talk for enjoyment, doing air-to-air battles at fair terms. Unless I killed the enemy on first pass I died after being bounced by my attackees friends.
End result was that I never stayed to turn with enemy anymore, got bored trying to find single fights and finally after reset seeing the numbers form up 16 - 33 - 11 , I logged off.
So my final result for the last night is that either I join the country with second best numbers from now on (which will naturally make things even worse for the remaining rooks) or I stop playing because it's just not fun anymore. 50% of rooks voted with their feet last night.
50%.
It should tell you something.
