You have to be under 1500m in a plane for the models on the map to load. Makes it extremely difficult to effectively assist your team without a friend marking points on the ground.
Seen this in a few threads here, and it is imperative this is fixed before more content is added to the sky.
There is already content in the sky but as you pointed out, render distance is just horrible in Enlisted.
Blind pilots, aka too low render distance - English speaking section / Suggestions - Enlisted
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Problem is, that planes are extremely rare (with exception of currently overpowered BF110) and usually have literally no impact on the battle. Thanks to that, taking fighter into lineup is also useless, thus we have so far 3-4 vehicles for each campaign as useless waste of development time.
I run the Ju-87B in every match and top the leaderboard. Not sure what you mean by unplayed and useless.
Worth noting I’m playing in the Moscow campaign
Bombing spawn or cap on invasion while hoping you hit something, does not count.
Quite the assumption. I am playing with friends and have the luxury of knowing what is happening on the ground without being there myself. It is oppressive.
I am able to thrive on any mode, though namely the Monastery map is difficult to make any sort of effective air support. Once you know the maps you can reason where the enemy will be based on the status of objectives and where your teammates are.
The P-38 should be able to take one down without too much trouble, if the flight models are even remotely accurate.
Now imagine not having the luxury and having to rely on your teammates (aka being completely blind 90 % of the time), or flying a fighter plane. What can you do then? Right… nothing because you can´t really see anything, and if you are in fighter you can´t even strafe.
While I´m sure that bombing spawnpoints or caps while hoping something is actually there atm must be fun (and then returning back to resupply only to miss again), I would still prefer for the sake of everybody else, that pilots could actually have their own eyes and see their targets.
They can both easily destroy each other. BF110 is only considered OP because of its rockets, which are indeed very powerful.