SeveB Posted December 21, 2015 Posted December 21, 2015 Hello, I bought this game a few weeks ago and have been having lots of fun flying offline so decided to try it online. Maybe I was unlucky with the servers I tried but all I could see was tank v tank stuff. Is this the way this game is heading? I thought it was a flight sim ...? Just curious and thought I'd ask the question.
VBF-12_Stick-95 Posted December 21, 2015 Posted December 21, 2015 (edited) It's a flight sim with a few tanks. New planes are scheduled by the devs, tanks are not. Some servers have tanks as well as planes, some don't. Some are full real, some are normal (includes icons, etc.). your choice. Edited December 21, 2015 by MrStick
Sokol1 Posted December 21, 2015 Posted December 21, 2015 Maybe I was unlucky with the servers I tried but all I could see was tank v tank stuff. Only in one map (NORMAL) DED Lapino you see many tanks, but more than 90% is AI. Anyway if are no players in the servers you have plenty of targets on ground. In other maps tanks depends on players, and rarely are 10 people playing tanks. The "novelty" has faded... The available models are "unbalanced" in weapon power and most people tend use only T-34 (the equivalent of 109/Fw 190 in the game).
Finkeren Posted December 21, 2015 Posted December 21, 2015 No, this is not a tank sim, for two reasons: 1: The experience of driving a tank in this game is still far from constituting a "simulator". It'll tale a lot of work to bring it up to that level of detail. 2: After a short period of everyone trying out the new tanks, the large majority of us now seem to be back in the cockpit. Even on the few servers that offer tank action, it's usually a couple people driving tanks and the rest flying. It seems that the addition of tanks has done more or less what you'd expect: Given us a broader game play with relatively few people in tanks, helping making it more interesting for the people flying above. I just wish, that the tanks would've given MP player numbers a more permanent boost than seems to have been the case.
Y-29.Silky Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 I just wish, that the tanks would've given MP player numbers a more permanent boost than seems to have been the case. It did kind of suck yesterday. There were times the tank server had more people than the flying server.
StG77_Kondor Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 It did kind of suck yesterday. There were times the tank server had more people than the flying server. I think this will be the new norm for a while. Would these same people be flying instead if there were no tanks? Or would they just play a different game? It will be interesting to see what happens as the tanks keep getting improved - with more playable tanks added. Less targets for 109/Yak 'aces' might drive them away? Time will tell.
VBF-12_Stick-95 Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 I've been a long time IL-2 player. Love to fly (sim that is). My original reaction to the tanks was, well, meh. After finally trying them out and getting the gunnery down, I have had quite a bit of fun in them, especially against other human tankers. One of the things I found was that other humans not on TS in friendly tanks are much quicker to team up and work together than most pilots not on TS that I have seen. Life on the ground is deadlier than in the air. Not only are you watching for enemy tanks but you have to be aware of enemy planes. And watching the dog fights from the ground and having aircraft crash within a few hundred meters of you is something to see. So don't write off the tanks too quickly, I think they are here to stay. Maybe they won't bring a lot of people into the sim on their own, but they fill a niche for when you may not be up for flying a fighter or the time for a bomber sortie. I hope they make a few other tank types driveable from those already in the game.
SeveB Posted December 24, 2015 Author Posted December 24, 2015 BoM paid for so I guess I am a right tanker
F/JG300_Gruber Posted December 24, 2015 Posted December 24, 2015 No, this is still a flight sim. Lot of road to travel before closing in to a tank sim state. To me the main problem I see so far is that on the few servers that have tanks and planes maps, there is no restriction of the proportion of tanks vs plane, and usually you see a few brave player controlled T34 being vulched by a mixed swarm of Ju87 and 190, themselves being pinned down by a swarm of yaks. If the ratio between tanks/planes was limited to something like 2/1 or 3/1, it would be more immersive for tank players that usually spend most of their time hiding in the forest with their MG pointed up the sky.
BlitzPig_Bill_Kelso Posted December 25, 2015 Posted December 25, 2015 Yes! No! Maybe... I don't know. What was the question?
SCG_Space_Ghost Posted December 25, 2015 Posted December 25, 2015 No, this is still a flight sim. Lot of road to travel before closing in to a tank sim state. To me the main problem I see so far is that on the few servers that have tanks and planes maps, there is no restriction of the proportion of tanks vs plane, and usually you see a few brave player controlled T34 being vulched by a mixed swarm of Ju87 and 190, themselves being pinned down by a swarm of yaks. If the ratio between tanks/planes was limited to something like 2/1 or 3/1, it would be more immersive for tank players that usually spend most of their time hiding in the forest with their MG pointed up the sky. No thanks.
F/JG300_Gruber Posted December 25, 2015 Posted December 25, 2015 (edited) No thanks. It's only a suggestion to make a decent tank+plane (tank oriented) server. As all servers I played on with tanks were just not pleasant for ground forces with 6 aircraft airborne for each 1 tank rolling or so. This is not for a regular flight server of course Edited December 25, 2015 by F/JG300_Gruber
ACG_pezman Posted December 25, 2015 Posted December 25, 2015 Having tanks doesn't take a single thing away from this sim. All it does is add to it. 3
VBF-12_Stick-95 Posted December 25, 2015 Posted December 25, 2015 No, this is still a flight sim. Lot of road to travel before closing in to a tank sim state. To me the main problem I see so far is that on the few servers that have tanks and planes maps, there is no restriction of the proportion of tanks vs plane, and usually you see a few brave player controlled T34 being vulched by a mixed swarm of Ju87 and 190, themselves being pinned down by a swarm of yaks. If the ratio between tanks/planes was limited to something like 2/1 or 3/1, it would be more immersive for tank players that usually spend most of their time hiding in the forest with their MG pointed up the sky. Agree with Space_Ghost. The last thing a server needs is more restrictions. Let people fly if they want or drive if they want. Not everyone flying a plane is out to get a tank.
[CPT]milopugdog Posted December 25, 2015 Posted December 25, 2015 No, this is still a flight sim. Lot of road to travel before closing in to a tank sim state. To me the main problem I see so far is that on the few servers that have tanks and planes maps, there is no restriction of the proportion of tanks vs plane, and usually you see a few brave player controlled T34 being vulched by a mixed swarm of Ju87 and 190, themselves being pinned down by a swarm of yaks. If the ratio between tanks/planes was limited to something like 2/1 or 3/1, it would be more immersive for tank players that usually spend most of their time hiding in the forest with their MG pointed up the sky. Nah. I saw the opposite the other day. If both of the teams have a few tankers, they just negate each other. Due to way bombs interact with tanks right now, I'm much more afraid of arty or a T-34 than a Pe-2 or IL-2.
Jade_Monkey Posted December 26, 2015 Posted December 26, 2015 The title of the post is ridiculous to begin with. Not sure if it´s even worth answering.
Rjel Posted December 26, 2015 Posted December 26, 2015 The title of the post is ridiculous to begin with. Not sure if it´s even worth answering. And yet..... Life's all about choices. Driving a tank in BoS is just another one. And a pretty damned simple one at that.
Jade_Monkey Posted December 26, 2015 Posted December 26, 2015 And yet..... Life's all about choices. Driving a tank in BoS is just another one. And a pretty damned simple one at that. Haha but I never answered the question, did I
Phantom-103 Posted December 27, 2015 Posted December 27, 2015 Having tanks doesn't take a single thing away from this sim. All it does is add to it. !!
SeveB Posted December 28, 2015 Author Posted December 28, 2015 The title of the post is ridiculous to begin with. Not sure if it´s even worth answering. I asked the question because i am new to the game. I went online for the first time and it seemed to me there was mostly tank options when I clicked on bases. You think my question was ridiculous? Not worth answering? And yet you decided to not keep quiet, but to answer the question with a snide remark? Bravo Sir! Thank you. I won't ask any more questions and maybe I won't bother trying to click on any more bases, fly online or buy any more products from this developer ... To the rest of you, thank you. I appreciate your replies
Dakpilot Posted December 28, 2015 Posted December 28, 2015 Dont know what's in the air, but lots of posts around here seem to have a bit of an aggressive or argumentative tone. doesn't take much effort to be a little easy on new posters or maybe it's the Christmas 'spirit' LoL doesn't take much effort to be a little easy on newer posters, even if you happen to disagree with what opinion they have personally I found that Tanks online made for added fun as a Pilot Cheers Dakpilot
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