Air Domination the most misunderstood game mode in War Thunder

[ColonelPete 1,513]

You understanding is as limited as you spatial awareness.

[FiveOClock 29]

If you are using bombers playing an Air Dom match is costing you about 6000 RP. Regular Domination is also a large loss of RP . I keep 4 sets of bombers and dump these matches all the time. I doubt any of the "Air Experts" posting in these forums can explain which bombers are worth 7000 RP and why they get so much more RP than other bombers

 

If the people in the thread want to spend 4 to 5 times as long as it takes me to get new planes and finish getting mods then feel free to waste your time.

[dоt 3,457]

^ Ah a real team player ramping up a bomber line-up full well aware there's 2 game modes not suited for bombers, then come whine about being useless in those game modes.

[Ezz777 1,493]

^ Ah a real team player ramping up a bomber line-up full well aware there's 2 game modes not suited for bombers, then come whine about being useless in those game modes.

Well he raises a fair point - that bomber reward is much higher than fighter reward. Maybe it's compensation for the dull game experience. Maybe it's just badly balanced. In the list of things gaijin need to fix, hopefully they get to it at some point.

[SHID_MY_JORTS 1,863]

If the people in the thread want to spend 4 to 5 times as long as it takes me to get new planes and finish getting mods then feel free to waste your time.

 

Heh, the moment you want to fly those fighters you grinded out, the only reflexes you're gonna have is in your thumb(pressing spacebar).

[swedeonthemoose 12,809]

kinda like that to some people it seems one simply cant dislike airdom, no that means they jsut suck and need to l2p xD

 

but i want to mod my bombers, l2p.

but normal dom is way better, l2p.

but i simply just hate it cus it's berong to me, l2p.

[Ezz777 1,493]

kinda like that to some people it seems one simply cant dislike airdom, no that means they jsut suck and need to l2p xD

 

but i want to mod my bombers, l2p.

but normal dom is way better, l2p.

but i simply just hate it cus it's berong to me, l2p.

Well playing AB is about l2p for many people... so i guess it makes sense the AB forums are filled with l2p at every turn... ;)

[swedeonthemoose 12,809]

Well playing AB is about l2p for many people... so i guess it makes sense the AB forums are filled with l2p at every turn... ;)

ye but the very notion that one cant like a certain gametype whitout someone telling you that, oh you just suck, learn it and you will like it etc etc.

 

i climb, i pick my targets, i stay carefull, and i still hate ad xD

[Ezz777 1,493]

ye but the very notion that one cant like a certain gametype whitout someone telling you that, oh you just suck, learn it and you will like it etc etc.

 

i climb, i pick my targets, i stay carefull, and i still hate ad xD

I opined in the other topic that i suspect many people project their views as the only way people should think. Ie 'i like AD, i play good, therefore if you play good you will like AD'. And or from the other thread, 'i have a high K/D and influence the battle, therefore anyone with a high K/D must also be influencing the battle'. There is a glaring disconnect there. But it is what it is i guess.

[swedeonthemoose 12,809]

I opined in the other topic that i suspect many people project their views as the only way people should think. Ie 'i like AD, i play good, therefore if you play good you will like AD'. And or from the other thread, 'i have a high K/D and influence the battle, therefore anyone with a high K/D must also be influencing the battle'. There is a glaring disconnect there. But it is what it is i guess.

ah yes the k/d people, both love them and hate them with a burning fury of a thousand suns xD

[Ezz777 1,493]

ah yes the k/d people, both love them and hate them with a burning fury of a thousand suns xD

There are a variety of ways to improve your K/D... i want the ones who look to raise their 'K' on my team, and the ones that look to lower their 'D' on the other.

[RecklessWILL 495]

ye but the very notion that one cant like a certain gametype whitout someone telling you that, oh you just suck, learn it and you will like it etc etc.

 

i climb, i pick my targets, i stay carefull, and i still hate ad xD

Well I loathe normal Domination in Arcade Air Battles. Hate it. Apart from this statement I don't whine about it on every thread in these forums. I just ... play it .. and ... await the modes I do like and them ... play them.

 

Get over it and stop whinging. 

[Ruklukk 256]

Well I loathe normal Domination in Arcade Air Battles. Hate it. Apart from this statement I don't whine about it on every thread in these forums. I just ... play it .. and ... await the modes I do like and them ... play them.

 

Get over it and stop whinging. 

 

Or?

[swedeonthemoose 12,809]

Well I loathe normal Domination in Arcade Air Battles. Hate it. Apart from this statement I don't whine about it on every thread in these forums. I just ... play it .. and ... await the modes I do like and them ... play them.

 

Get over it and stop whinging. 

it's human to whine about stuff they dont like xD especially sins sometimes you get those games where you have 5 games in a row of the gamemode you hate the most

[Suicism 51]

I just posted a new thread about WT giving us the CHOICE of which mode we want to play when in Arcade:

 

 

... we'll see if it gets approved.

 

On 24/07/2015 at 05:07, swedeonthemoose said:

Well I loathe normal Domination in Arcade Air Battles. Hate it. Apart from this statement I don't whine about it on every thread in these forums. I just ... play it .. and ... await the modes I do like and them ... play them.

 

Get over it and stop whinging. 

it's human to whine about stuff they dont like xD especially sins sometimes you get those games where you have 5 games in a row of the gamemode you hate the most

 

^^ My suggestion is probably for people like you then, lol

[FailBoatCaptain 439]

levelling up necromancy

Edited October 26, 2021 by FailBoatCaptain

[PA32Driver 0]

I am a newbie to the game, but what is frustrating is the lack of instruction on how to play the battle. I've looked at the Wiki, I've looked at the Tutorials, nothing talks about where the altitudes bases / caps are at, nor the width of the zone. That kind of stuff makes it frustrating. I don't mind playing AD, but it isn't my favorite. The one I hate more is where you have to capture the three different air bases. Since I might play one or two rounds in a day, when I have time between work calls, I'm not on a squad and don't have a bunch of friends that I am playing with. I guess that is the reality of being 49 years old and having a real life, not 12 and unconcerned about school work. I do with there was a ranking system where you could rank your battle types from Most Favorite to Least Favorite. You could then be match-made with your Most Favorite receiving a higher priority, but you would be expected to play your Least Favorite mission types every now-and-then to fill out the queue and keep other battles occurring without a ton of wait-times for everyone else. 

Edited December 8, 2021 by PA32Driver

[HochgeborenKlown 1,276]

9 hours ago, PA32Driver said:

I am a newbie to the game, but what is frustrating is the lack of instruction on how to play the battle. I've looked at the Wiki, I've looked at the Tutorials, nothing talks about where the altitudes bases / caps are at, nor the width of the zone. That kind of stuff makes it frustrating. I don't mind playing AD, but it isn't my favorite. The one I hate more is where you have to capture the three different air bases. Since I might play one or two rounds in a day, when I have time between work calls, I'm not on a squad and don't have a bunch of friends that I am playing with. I guess that is the reality of being 49 years old and having a real life, not 12 and unconcerned about school work. I do with there was a ranking system where you could rank your battle types from Most Favorite to Least Favorite. You could then be match-made with your Most Favorite receiving a higher priority, but you would be expected to play your Least Favorite mission types every now-and-then to fill out the queue and keep other battles occurring without a ton of wait-times for everyone else. 

The cap zone is sekrit, but generally runs from about 2500 ft (762m) to 14,000 ft (4267m), above or below will not start capping the zone even if you are in it...The key to this is to side climb and get above them, fighting downhill is much easier than being even or below the enemy team...As long as you or your team have at least one player in the zone they cannot cap even if their whole team is in the zone...If that one player is above them they will not be able to recap the zone...AD is superb for racking up large kill counts without much effort as long as you are patient and let everyone else drop to the furball...The ranking of favorite battle types never worked and was never used for anything other than to let gougin know what people hated the most...

[PA32Driver 0]

15 hours ago, HochgeborenKlown said:

The cap zone is sekrit, but generally runs from about 2500 ft (762m) to 14,000 ft (4267m), above or below will not start capping the zone even if you are in it...The key to this is to side climb and get above them, fighting downhill is much easier than being even or below the enemy team...As long as you or your team have at least one player in the zone they cannot cap even if their whole team is in the zone...If that one player is above them they will not be able to recap the zone...AD is superb for racking up large kill counts without much effort as long as you are patient and let everyone else drop to the furball...The ranking of favorite battle types never worked and was never used for anything other than to let gougin know what people hated the most...

That makes sense what you are saying about the battle types. I do think that there should be some changes to the way points are awarded. I typically only play Arcade, as I said, limited time to play the game. I hate to lose every round because everyone wants to dog fight and not go after the objective of the round. What needs to happen is that points / RP being awarded at 1.0x for people who are playing the objective, and points / RP awarded at 0.5x for people not going after the mission objective. In Air Domination, that would be easy to give everyone 1.0x point. However, in the other missions, everyone would need to take out at least 1 or 2 ground targets in-order to get their points / RP awarded at 1.0x.  I just played a quick round and it was me and one other guy trying to take out ground targets, everyone else just in the scrum. We lost in about 4 minutes. That sucks.

 

[HochgeborenKlown 1,276]

Yah, short matches like that are no fun...gaijin just reworked the points system so the more danger you are in and the more encounters you have with players at or above your BR in a match the higher your score will be...I can go 13-0 not playing the obj and have 5-6 others who are in the furball, dying, killing GT's, bombing bases, etc who will outscore me...Personally I no longer care about any of that, too much aggravation...I would suggest that you look at squadron adverts and find an objective based squad that does not have a problem with someone not being 100% devoted to WT who wants to play casual and have a chance at winning occasionally...There are many of them out there...