I’m biased when it comes to flying. I enjoy it, I do it in real life, that’s why I really want to see some sort of objective based game for air planes. Ground game has their objectives. Either by capping points or destroying/defending/attacking objectives. Darkflow added balloons on airfield map in Normandy for planes to either shoot down or defend. I would like to see the devs expand on that in some way. Have objectives in sky that planes can defend/attack. Or spawn ai controlled bomber formations that would attack ground forces at certain times. An “incoming attack” would flash which would give players the ability to spawn in an attempt to shoot them down or protect them. For ground forces, having a massive fight over the sky (with ai bomber formations) could really add to the intensity already on the ground. I don’t know…I’m just throwing ideas out.
I just feel like it gets a little boring and repetitive for aircraft mains…
Spawn bomber
Enemy spawns fighter
You get shot down
You spawn fighter and shoot him down. Nothing else to fight so you crash to help out team on ground.
Enemy spawns bomber and the process repeats itself.
This is a infantry center game. Planes were already extreme powerful to AP. If there’s too many planes/tanks, then the main object–to capture sectors, will leave no players to play. Also infantry will be really suffer to play.
Though, like in RO2, there DO have interesting maps that need combined arms. But currently 10vs10 playercount may not support this type of large scale match.
I feel what you’re saying man. I did really like chilling out in the air sometimes while still feeling like I was having a meaningful impact on the ground. Since the CAS nerf I don’t get that feeling so I’m in the air a lot less.
I mainly use it to take out a hard to reach tank or clumped defenders, a persistent bomber then come back down.
Fighters at the moment suffer the most because there is almost no way to level them and no way to have a meaningful impact on the ground anymore. Fighter II xp is ridiculous.
I’m not sure if I agree with the waves of AI bombers though as that probably wouldn’t be fun for infantry and having 2 players in the air when there are probably only 4 real players sometimes in a team is not optimal. Also constant screen shake from bombs is really annoying.
I agree with the core idea of your post though. Give planes something to do. Especially fighters.
Being on the ground when the enemy is spamming bombers out is intense PAIN. Spawn, get bombed, “great…”, spawn again, move to objective get bombed again, guy crashes. Spawn again, next guy in a bomber already dropping, try again. Though it did feel nice to get revenge on them by shooting them all down with the first P-38, it wasn’t a fun battle to win. Got 5-6 air kills but I really hope I NEVER have to experience that again.