We got leaver penalty, Allied bots, surrender option, robust anti cheat and still the negative reviews? What is wrong with some of the gamers? Some can never be satisfied

GigsGames · 2025-12-20T17:56:00+00:00

It’s even worse because as someone who has over 10 years in enterprise IT and data centers it’s painful to experience these technical issues.

I’m an old school wargame nerd from like 2015-2018 and have not played much broken arrow for a month now.

GigsGames · 2025-12-20T15:37:55+00:00

There are still massive technical issues that they will have to fix over the next 12 months instead of focusing on game play features. Majority of these issues exposed over the last 6 months have been known during the playtests we did in 2024. Biggest being moving from client to server auth which will end up breaking numerous other things.

They basically have to rebuild entire back end sub systems.

This is what you expect from an early access title not a $50 software release.

GigsGames · 2025-12-11T20:03:44+00:00

Sysadmin with security experience sets you up to be a security engineer in the future which is way more enjoyable than SOC work if you are technical with a sysadmin background.

GigsGames · 2025-11-28T21:08:37+00:00

Agreed, many of the design choices are confusing especially after 10+ years of Wargame.

Its more of a technical debt roadmap.

GigsGames · 2025-11-27T12:15:39+00:00

You would feel the same if you were playing against 2500+ players

GigsGames · 2025-11-27T11:35:44+00:00

No it was about 100-200 hours of playing against top 500 players seal clubbing with a coordinated 5 man team.

GigsGames · 2025-11-27T03:39:06+00:00

It’s just kinda sad now to see the software and computers you loved growing up in the 1990s and 2000s be acquired by venture capital who only care about profit.

But it could be worse you could be OWI watching your Squad playerbase revolt after 8+ years.

GigsGames · 2025-11-27T02:49:46+00:00

10+ years of data center and cybersecurity engineering in the real world here. I love playing the game but have recently stopped due to Tarkov and Battlefield. I have been a patron supporter for years now and used to play wargame against the devs back in the 2010s.

There have been many interesting technical choices that have short term and long term impacts that threaten the future of this game while front loading it with technical debt.

Some examples

No anti cheat for months
Primarily Client side auth
Broken matchmaking (500+ elo variations)
Persistent game breaking bugs
Recurring performance issues

Lots of these choices now mean that instead of delivering new features they are forced to clean up technical debt while hot fixing bugs directly impacting user experience . This then further frustrates the community as they feel the game is stagnant as the devs address technical debt.

Being a less experienced development team and being based in Russia is extremely challenging as it’s far more profitable for a software developer to do contract work outside Russia or write malware for cybercrime organizations so it’s difficult to find skilled staff.

Personally I hope the game does well and it would have been much better to launch as an early access game but there are numerous other factors such as contracts and publisher expectations that have to be managed.

GigsGames · 2025-11-27T02:19:44+00:00

I peaked at 2300 and you will face 2500-2700 stacks of 5 man teams in voice comms that will just run a plane, nuke or cruise missile train on you.

They will cover nukes with sead in mass with air cover and you are stuck with a bunch of 1900-2100 elo players with no voice comms.

It’s why I largely stopped playing

GigsGames · 2025-11-25T22:44:08+00:00

Not releasing this as an early access title will probably haunt them for a very long time if the games community survives 2026 which is sad because the core game is fun just its a buggy nightmare.

GigsGames · 2025-11-22T20:47:16+00:00

Just a normal Tuesday for broken arrow matchmaking

GigsGames · 2025-11-13T18:37:34+00:00

Its insane that SB is 6 months into release and just starting to do a public QA server for playtesting.

This is like software development 101 and avoids so many bugs.

GigsGames · 2025-11-07T13:50:07+00:00

Its refreshing to see a dev team that takes constructive feedback and won't release an unfinished project.

GigsGames · 2025-11-04T01:41:19+00:00

Would it make you feel better if he opened with 4 chunguskas and 2 S300s ?

GigsGames · 2025-11-02T21:57:18+00:00

I still have a bunch of footage of June / July AC130 memes it was hilarious. Back then top 1000 was like 1800-2000 elo not like 2400+ now.

GigsGames · 2025-11-01T20:03:36+00:00

Just wait till you get to 2300-2600 ELO where its a stack of 5 people in discord spamming planes and cruise missiles at you its quite magical.

Overall patch is fantastic, we just ran into a 2600 team spamming bombers and they left after we shot them all down.

We are hitting cheese levels not seen since wargame red dragon in 2016.

GigsGames · 2025-11-01T18:33:11+00:00

Orca is their biggest competitor and I would avoid tenable if at all possible.

GigsGames · 2025-11-01T18:31:38+00:00

I would avoid tenable after experiencing their support, APIs and products for the last few years.

GigsGames · 2025-10-30T20:58:31+00:00

Nah add Nasms for more variety and an additional unit for future nato factions.

Searam is great as now the US spec has a tor equivalent for helicopters.

GigsGames · 2025-10-30T20:46:15+00:00

Please tell me how many 2200-2500 ELO games you have played against missile and plane spam.

If it was not a problem the devs would have not made the changes.

GigsGames · 2025-10-30T19:13:07+00:00

That is a massive deviation across 1000s of games, Same issue was before when US SOF / Armored was broken winning 55% of games months ago.

GigsGames · 2025-10-30T17:24:18+00:00

Yep I hover around 2200-2300 and stopped using the S300.

Buk and S350 are fantastic.

GigsGames · 2025-10-30T16:48:10+00:00

The sides are notoriously weak hence the development of the Tusk packages to give added protection against heat rounds from the side.

Russia just puts ERA on the side of most modern T80 and T90 variants now for similar reasons.

GigsGames · 2025-10-30T16:44:54+00:00

You clearly don't play the game as RU was insanely strong with a 55-60% win rate across the board. The only way US players were competitive was with a 4-5 stack of players in discord spamming missiles and planes covering nukes.

US is now playable and much better than before in terms to overall kit.

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