Why Ground Strike sucks so much (My opinion)

[Overwatch Blender]

Every game I play is Ground Strike, I rarely get any other gamemode. And in all of them, I always lose. Why? Because NO ONE ATTACKS THE BLOODY GROUND UNITS. Even if you have 4 Armoured Cars in front of you, no one attacks them, they just head for the enemy plane 5 km away. Why the hell is this? After all my planes are gone, we are in the lead with 10 vehicles left while the enemy has only 3. And what do you get? WE LOSE. Because the rest of our team have the need to go and kill the last 14 enemy planes. And what about the bombers? They died in the first 1 minute, because no one defends them. On the other hand, it takes 5 numbnuts just to kill a lone enemy bomber! It doesn't make sense. Playing this game makes World of Tanks' noobs (about 90% of players are either AFK, stupid or downright do not know how to play their tank) look like rock stars! Seriously, it can't get any worse. I try all my best. I bomb the base, I bomb the ground units. Hell, even in my fighters I target the ground units if there's no one looking. And when I actually start shooting ♥♥♥♥ like everyone else, getting a few crits and hits, setting him on fire. What do I get? Some Spitfire zooming out of nowhere, spraying a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of shots into the guy, and taking the kill! You have no idea how many assists I got last round. And even then, after I get that many assists. Some russian biplane comes and rapes me with his ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ manuverability and machineguns.

I am getting sick and tired of this horrid unplayability. The reason I don't give up on WoT is because I got so far, and despite the noobs, I enjoy it. In this, it's a totally different story. You can't get any kills because of those guys waiting for some wounded aircraft, you put so much effort into that battle which in the end is pointless. And on top of that, I always get 6th or 8th place because I don't have enough aircraft kills. And I can't get any ground kills because by the time I drop my bombs, I'm being chased by some speedy, OP aircraft with a million machineguns. People say "Fly near friendly aircraft to lure them to him" IT DOESN'T WORK. I'm trying to get their attention, but no. They are ADAMANT that the guy on the other side of the map is the one they want. And when they're only halfway there, they get attacked by the same oxygen thieves that just wait around the corner, waiting and when they fly past they go up and absolutely destroy them all. Leaving me to practically clean up their mess and actually start bombing with 3 dead gunners and a fuel leak. That's all it is.

Or, for those tl;dr people: No one attacks ground units, why?

[Real Goblin]

Try RB. Bombers are (for the most part) protected there and even valued, since they're the only ones that can kill the tanks. It's longer and generally more boring, but it's realistic- just the way I like it.

[SSKikiBuns]

Makeing fun of the British mate not cool.

[Overwatch Blender]

Serrations a écrit :

Makeing fun of the British mate not cool.

How am I making fun of the British? I'm saying that their planes kill me a lot. I did say 'Some OP plane with a million machineguns comes in and kills me' however.

[SSKikiBuns]

Id like to call bull on this forum, maybe youve been getting into bad games im not sure but still their is plenty of good players that know what to do out their. I think you should calm down and play the game mate...its a game you shouldent be that mad over it.

[Simply Chris]

Serrations a écrit :

Id like to call bull on this forum, maybe youve been getting into bad games im not sure but still their is plenty of good players that know what to do out their. I think you should calm down and play the game mate...its a game you shouldent be that mad over it.

You have already proven you don't read his post....you have no right to call bull on this thread.

[lungenfoto]

See it in RB too, particularly events, but at least there its understanable that player conserves ammo and neglects ground targets- team elimination is fastest/most profitable, way to win a match. Lack of protection of bombers is unjustified in RB, but its common. Kill theft is less common.

Suppose you just need to accept that the lack of tactics, and melee 'feel' of the game is the way it is, and its not going to change because to emphasize team work will turn the pay model at the games core upside down.

[Overwatch Blender]

I have played War Thunder for about half a year or so. And only now after using the Steam version I am seeing this.

[Blaaaaadi]

Brown a écrit :

I have played War Thunder for about half a year or so. And only now after using the Steam version I am seeing this.

Nerfing rewards and slowing down progression to crawling speed caused this. Noone cares about mission objectices anymore, they just focus on kill stealing.
And don't count on RB being any better. You are on your own there as well, but you have better survavilibility in bombers because MGs (turrets) deal more damage and most people cant hit anything without leading circles.
Personally I don't see any point in playing bombers in AB anymore.

[Overwatch Blender]

I agree. Last round, almost every player on the other team had atleast 2 ground kills. Our team? Oh nothing, just 4 players including me getting 10+ ground kills while my fellow teammates die constantly.

[lungenfoto]

Played a bomber in RB after reading BloodiDoodi's comment. Badly shot up twice but landed, repaired. 4 pillboxes, 2 air kills, x4 bonus plus 'on hand' award and a couple others. Game won, using premium = 25K lions. A joke.

[Skookers]

You're lucky. all I play is 'CAPTA DA BAIS BAH LANDIN AWN RUNWAI AN HAS NO1 DO DAT AN LOOS'

[SenorBeef]

All of these "the enemy does this, but my team does this" posts complaining about the game are ridiculous. You understand that the same pool of people is assigned to both teams, right? How could you possibly always be on the team that doesn't ever bomb?

[Overwatch Blender]

SenorBeef a écrit :

All of these "the enemy does this, but my team does this" posts complaining about the game are ridiculous. You understand that the same pool of people is assigned to both teams, right? How could you possibly always be on the team that doesn't ever bomb?

I never see bombers anymore, that's how bad it is. And unfortunately, the enemy team decides it's better to kill ground targets than chase others 2 hours away. That's not the case for my team though. And it's always the same result. Only when it's too late, and we're losing 24 units to 4, then they go "WHOOPS! Better start attacking now!"

[Overwatch Blender]

Well, we just lost with TWENTY. TWENTY ENEMY GROUND UNITS LEFT. And you know why? BECAUSE I DIDN'T ATTACK THEM. All my team were either arguing, jacking off or just being genuinely incompetent.

[PCPhoenixGaming]

Lots of banned people in this thread...

People don't attack GTs unless in RB, because its simply not worth the time and ammunition if you have already gotten your x2 bonus. At Teir 3, I can either *maybe* get a ground target for 8-20 RB, OR i can killsteal a plane for 78 (using default, non premium). Unless they fix the economy so that things cost less RP, or you get more RP for ground targets, then i will continue to fly fighters.