Arcade squadron battles

[Youtube_Aeza 28]

We want the arcade squadron war event to be brought back. We spent money on our accounts for this game mode, it can be a good source of income for gaijin. There was a 100% active community of 1000 players playing arcade fleet battle

[DerLachendeMann 506]

Arcade squadron battles were fun back when you could use all your slots, when they limited it to 3 tanks/ 2 planes or whatever it was, that was when it got way less interesting. That's probably why they closed down AB squadron battles altogether in the end.

[SaperPL 446]

On 27/02/2022 at 14:58, DerLachendeMann said:

Arcade squadron battles were fun back when you could use all your slots, when they limited it to 3 tanks/ 2 planes or whatever it was, that was when it got way less interesting. That's probably why they closed down AB squadron battles altogether in the end.

 

Not really (about the closing of AB SB). The issue was that matches were mostly the same and about the air domination because of how bombs worked in SQB with instant fuse and reload in the air versus forced time fuse on low altitude drops in random battles/public matchmaking games. So new teams couldn't really enter the ladder because they were constantly steamrolled by experienced teams. On top of that there were two or three teams that were mostly undefeated and I think there were cheats involved, and when the anti-cheat was introduced and it wasn't forced in arcade SQB, experienced squadrons stopped playing with those teams and started leaving the game right after seeing they got matched with them.

 

Final nail in the coffin was inversion of BRs where season starts from top tier, which technically was good for new squadrons, because the top tier where they are lacking the vehicles would be less penalising on the ladder because of lowest score there, but at the same time they were facing top tier with stuff like 6.7 in the first week, so it wasn't any fun, and they didn't continue playing.

 

I tried saving the mode when I saw it coming though:

But it was too late, I think, as decision seemed to be made already at that point.

 

Anyway if there is a chance to bring back Arcade Squadron Battles, it should happen with simple changes that would make it so that it won't have the same issues as before:

1. make it without golden eagle rewards, at least until enough squadrons play seasons regularly - get rid of try-hards destroying the fun to farm GE
2. force the use of anti-cheat, because it was forced in RB SQB but not in AB SQB and teams sitting on top were pretty shady
3. put the same enforced bomb fuse delay as in ground battles so the air domination will not decide the game outcome most of the time

[z0d420 5]

i miss arcade squadron battles sooooooooooo much i only got to enjoy them for a few months as i was a new player at the time. and Fuse delay would definitely even things out a bit. Please please bring them back even if its just for a small time.

[K1CK___ 1]

I also agree that Arcade squadron battles should be brought back. I never understood why they were removed in the first place. My preference would be "true arcade mode" where a player needs to score points to take an aircraft for limited time. It was too air dominant for my liking as it's supposed to be ground arcade, so surely it should be ground dominant.

 

[SaperPL 446]

5 hours ago, K1CK___ said:

I never understood why they were removed in the first place.

 

My squadron mates from back then told me the SQB community manager was outright telling people he doesn't care about arcade and that arcade should die, but I wasn't keeping track of that myself so I'm not really sure how it actually was, so it's a hearsay. The fact that there was no consultations with our squadron (squadron leader) which was iirc in top 5 at the time means they didn't actually care to discuss what's going to happen, so it may be true. Anyway I explained how I see the possible reasons of removing the mode, but it could've been avoided.

 

5 hours ago, K1CK___ said:

My preference would be "true arcade mode" where a player needs to score points to take an aircraft for limited time.

The issue is there are still players mainly playing planes and also the role of AAA should make more sense from the start in SQB. So I think the option to have some aircraft from the start is a good one.

 

5 hours ago, K1CK___ said:

It was too air dominant for my liking as it's supposed to be ground arcade, so surely it should be ground dominant.

I completely agree here - air domination was destroying the play on the ground unless by chance both sides killed off each other. Except of that edge case, it was always team dominating the air covering one or two guys on the ground that were just going and capping points while planes were taking out every enemy tank.

 

I think that it wouldn't be that bad if the top two or three clans weren't dominating the air completely in not that clear way. With one of them, I could never land a critical hit on their planes and they were always killing me before finished turning towards me, even when I had ping 0~1 ms when playing from my office where we had 10 GBPS connection through country skeleton network, and with the second one, we always had one player being dropped from server so we were playing 7 vs 8. And when the anti cheat rolled out, it wasn't enforced for arcade SQB ...

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The team I was in was an undefeated team, we didn't cheat. We know that Gaijin takes great precautions against cheating. Winning games and being a good player is not a crime! We are playing well to win prizes and our team has won 2 championships. Closing team matches should not be a precaution here. Necessary arrangements should be made by the game developers.