Aren't planes in pacific campaign a bit pointless?

To summarize.
Extremly long ranges to travel for spawns 4km+.
A lot of AA, i feel like those planes are dying like flies, almost 1-shots.
Starting payloads are meh.
Quite wide maps and lot of terrain for cover.
Seaplanes starting positions without timer, it looks cool but thats all.

What are your thoughts?

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Too early to say

Planes are pointless 90% of the time, the occasions of a enemy vehicle well positioned enough that no ally tank or AT gun can kill it is very rare to see so no point on spending 2 minutes on rearm runs to stop 2-3 squads (at best) and go away for time enough to 4+ squads go into the objective.

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I find planes are very good at knocking out emplacements like rally points and (ironically) AA guns

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Of course they are, but that can be done by any infantry without needing a 2+ minutes rearming run

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Payloads too light

Bombs too weak

Distance too great to fly

Honestly they could have done something a bit more creative with aircraft carriers and airfields

How they probably should be:

A. Repair station

B. Get a different bomb or (naval ordnance) load out

There is a lot of work to be done.

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Update.
Planes in pacific are completly worthless.
They should update resuply points ASAP and half those distances.
This pisses me off really because it’s PACIFIC CAMPAIGN, i don’t mind planes and ships being very influential here…

  • redeploy as infantry

  • Incentivize the players who landed to make them choose to land rather than kill themselves,

  • although the current game mechanics have nothing to motivate, as a missile rushing to the ground even saves time to bring more experience, the current mechanism is to encourage Suicide, so the question is why did they make an aircraft carrier to allow players to land and repair planes? What is the development team thinking?

they are not :slight_smile:

and a zero with 250 kg + 60kg bombs will dominate :slight_smile:

untill then, they aint useless at all. i rather have them as they are here, than like for example in invasion of bombardy.

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You know that nothing like zero with 250kg + 60kg exists?
For sure we will achive same level with nerfed bombs and 60kg payloads as Normandy.
Why bother just remove them xD, i’m constantly jooking with other players in game chat about planes viability in Pacific.
For now…picking plane in Pacific is trolling, no matter if it’s fighter or attacker.

there is really nothing to do for planes in pacific - nothing to shoot for americans at all - the japanese are not spawning vehicles most of the time

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when i jump from the plane
i would like to land where
I fall not to spawn as regular infantry