Okay true, vehicles indeed seem much easier to spot, but for me it still happens quite often.
To be fair, when I fly (don’t do it often, never liked the warthunder controls) I look at the battlefield and check the map like 2000 meters before going in for a dive, I am experienced enough to know where all the spawns are located, so I already know where to spam the spawn button at, basically every AA gunner will build their AA guns between their main spawn and the objective.
If there is either a vehicle, or a AA gun I will spot them 90% of the time.
That being said, AA guns need their range drastically increased, if you shoot to early you die at an instant, because rockets have enough range and AOE to instant wipe any target.
I remember CBT times, planes were actually very vulnerable but increadibly powerful, this was the perfect way planes were balanced- pilots were forced to fly low and plan their attacks, if they straight up appear from a very obvious high altitude, even regular lmgs would wreck them.
Ever since the massive plane nerfs planes have also become near immortal enemies that don’t actually do all that much.
Yes they wipe every vehicle without any effort, but take extremely long to rearm, making them just a troll vehicle, you ruin somebodies day without him being able to defend himself- but then you are basically AFK for the rest of the time.
Thats why I keep saying ignoring planes is the best strategy you can have.
Pilots waste the time of their own team because a infantry squad will always be more effective, while fighting said plane is the worst thing you can do.
Pilots play their own little game, which is a shame considering that we have got bombig runs and paradrops, which could have added a big incentive to play as a pilot. But it is what it is I guess.
