I believe this is a significant shortcoming of the game that with the great variety of vehicles players can’t select the one they’d like to use on a particular map/gamemode when already in a match.
Depending whether it’s an open or more close-quarters map, if it’s invasion of conquest, if the enemy has skilled bomber pilots or long-range tankers, whether the situation calls for a fast-charging anti-infantry tank or a slow and more powerful heavy tank, the players are stuck with whatever they blindly pre-selected in the home screen.
For example, with the addition of the Seelow Heights map, I’d love to try out the Jagdpanzer IV on its open terrain but if the map I get is the usual urban Berlin, the Jagdpanzer IV is useless and I would love to be able to swith to Pz IV/Panther.
Same with planes.
Here is a concept of what this could look like, just like in the home screen:
For tanks i would say “deal with it”.
For planes… yea.
Combat aircraft are useless. Why even picking them? You gain close to no exp from destroying ennemy plane. So nobody use them because they can pick a bomber.
Yes, unfortunately. I don’t think it’s an oversight but rather a conscious decicion to create a problem and sell the solution.
However, e.g. with Pz IV, Panther, Jagdpanzer IV and Pz IV/70 all being in the same squad, there is just no way to choose from them all even if you buy the premium/additional slots.
Well damn this approach can be applied to every inconvenience in the game.
Why not strive to improve the game?
It wouldn’t hurt to have the ability to choose from the vehicles you have unlocked, otherwise there is absolutely no incentice or reason to pick Jagdpanzer IV or Pz IV if you have the Panther.
However, if the enemy team had a particularly good tanker and the map/gamemode provided for good lines of sight, Jagdpanzer IV could be a great choice to make.
I use fighters.
Mostly because I play normandy and if I don’t want to be obliterated by CAS, I have no other choice but to fly my BF 109.
Also strafing with 3x 20mm canon is pretty fun.
In my experience it’s 50:50. There are players that fly in a straight line and are basically free kills. But there are also players that can outmaneuver me in P-38.
P-38 Lighting, even in that plane it depends on player, sometimes i can outmeuver them, sometimes they gets me. And it even depends if you use claps, that can help 110.
I disagree, i use fighter planes as my second vehicle slot, since bought premium. I just can’t stand that someone are dropping bombs on me and my team and i can’t do nothing about it. Urge for revenge are too big. If i had free account then yes…unfortunatelly i would choose bomber or tank, more handy in more matches. Fighters are more situational.
FW-190 D-12 is very interesting plane in Berlin, btw. It has 250/50kg bombs and also fighter capabilities. It would be ideal plane, but somehow I cannot master bomb drops with it. It’s also very fast plane so that’s why i miss with bombs in most cases and it takes useful attacker pilot slot of your team.
