Mike Force is overloaded with Assets and Roles

CouX

I want to discuss here if MF is overloaded with assets and roles wich nobody is playing.

I started into MF as inf and it was great, alot of action and not a single boring minute, but after i played as pilot i noticed that its getting very fast boring, you mostly fly players from A to B, same with supplies, after someone build a spawn point at the new FOB your passengers are reducing drastcally and you mostly fly supply boxes around.

I want to mention the CAS problem here as well, the UH-1 helis give you next to transportation the ability to provide CAS but the big problem is you wont get CAS requests because the infantry want to destroy the possible targets by themselves, i never got a CAS request in while flying transport helicopters with CAS ability, same with the F-4, often your F-4 pilots getting that bored that they dump their full arsenal on their own team.
I have the feeling Mike Force is a one role show, where only the infantry has its fun meanwhile pilots are restricted to fly players and boxes around, tanks and boats are nearly not existent because you need multiple players who want to play these assets together.

Lets discuss in a friendly manner and without any kind of hate or trolling, thx.

SeaCow52

I can see your point. I've said this in relation to other issues, not ARMA or gaming, but it applies: "Not everyone can be the quarterback."

I think that statement pretty much sums it up. For that reason, I mostly play as Armored Cav. Getting the FOB up and keeping it up can be a non-stop venture, and calling supplies to cache for respawns is constant.

I think it comes down to an individual and how serious they are about how the game it played. Are they looking for a simulation or an arcade game?

NightIntruder

CouX wrote:
I want to discuss here if MF is overloaded with assets and roles wich nobody is playing. I started into MF as inf and it was great, alot of action and not a single boring minute, but after i played as pilot i noticed that its getting very fast boring, you mostly fly players from A to B, same with supplies, after someone build a spawn point at the new FOB your passengers are reducing drastcally and you mostly fly supply boxes around.

Long time I haven't been played MF, but I assume it hasn't changed much since then. Flying any aircraft is always like flying from point A to point B, in RL too. Yeah, there were too many aviation assets and the balance between ground and supporting forces were always off. Crashing a helo never brought any sort of "punishment". You could always grab another aircraft, almost in no time. Indeed, the spawn point created in FOBs is something that removes a sense of purpose among transport helo pilots as there are much fewer players to be transported (as if the number wasn't small enough due to the imbalance of forces). Still, there are resupply missions, and that always was a huge effort in every theatre of operations. Boring? Someone who loves flying would never say that. It's just a different type of flying. Boring would be awaiting assignments. Have you ever waited for orders to fly transport helo throughout the whole MP session, but you never flew due to CO having chosen to go with APCs? Have you ever been seated in MEDEVAC for the duration of a whole mission and a call never came? Or have you flown AC130 loitering to the left only for 3 hours? I've been doing all of that and more, and I can tell you - MF servers are full of action for pilots and those missions aren't boring at all granted that they are coordinated with ground force commanders.

In my humble opinion, MF servers have too many flying assets or lack a mechanic to keep a balance between a number of grunts and supporting roles, or lack a mechanic that would be in favor of safely flying pilots who never abandoned their undamaged helo somewhere in the terrain. However, I would never expect that aviation is the main focus of the DLC and the MF servers. What's more, MFs are just public servers. Having effective and coordinated efforts, close to military simulation, with all players acting reasonably is a bit unrealistic expectation, to be honest. It may happen from time to time, but I found something rather opposite more often which made me to leave this type of MP gameplay.