XP gain for planes just stink. Unless you get that lucky 15+kill bombing run you get hardly anything. You’re flying in a match. Taking out high value tanks in areas your tanks or inf can’t reach and it’s just minimal. All the while your flying back 4200-4500m to rearm point and see players in tank just getting massive XP gains by killing inf/other vehicles.
It’s disheartening and makes me wonder sometimes why I waste my time flying.
I don’t like it, planes should be used as response to something the enemy brought that you can’t deal with, we don’t need more incentive to those guys that spawn a plane and start asking for locations all match without helping the team where they actually need help.
Also, if you take some time to know the map before playing as pilot you will discover that 15+ kills bombing run are kinda easy to get.
we are asking for enemy locations because we don’t know if or where the enemy built rally points. We can bomb the normal route the enemy would take all day with no effect if the enemy spawns somewhere else and we have no clue
If the rally point is in the open in a way a bomb can kill it then is better to play as infantry and grenade it (or better, AP mine it).
Only take the plane if you see something that you can’t deal normally, any competent player that is on a minute and half trip to rearm and get back is basically giving the enemy the opportunity to cap the point/regroup the defense, a good player on a plane is detrimental to its own team.
Unless you have good players that can hold or push points while you take out high value targets. Which 80% of the time is not the case
That’s right, so the general rule is, stick to infantry and use some tactical awareness to decide when it’s the right time to spawn a plane.
Which I hate because I love flying.
I hate the “people should play this way” rant, just let people play how they want and have fun
The game wasn’t meant to have player-controlled vehicles in the first place.
Seconding that planes are here for support and sitting in a plane 24/7 shouldn’t be encouraged.
The way I like to play is when there isn’t a bomb hitting the objective every 30 seconds
Issue is that some fighters dont have payloads and grinding a Spitfire in Tunisia where you already have low chances to meet a Axis plane sucks. The current plane situation in Asia is also… not good as hydroplanes are slow as hell and dont have good payloads.
Fighter pilot squads should have lower exp requirements to progress within the squad for sure, but overall higher exp is a no
Not to gloat but i think the team was happy with the 9 tanks that were camping in the greyzone and 3 planes i took out while flying. So i think i can safely say that a good pilot can help the team win, and we ask for enemy position to do as much damage as we can in order to help the team since we’re away from battle for almost a minute.
Well, nice job, I could post here the dozens of matches I lost because someone stayed the whole match on the plane instead of inside the objective or building rally points.
I am not impressed, while I am personally a bad pilot I have people playing on my squads that do way more than that on a plane and I still hold the opinion that they would be more useful on ground.
You want more help from pilots? Mark when they ask for enemy positions. We have a limited window where we can align and drop/fire, and the bigger the impact an airplane has on the battlefield, the harder it is to fly. Not to mention when we have to get into dogfights. Also pay atention when a pilot says to infantry to take out an AA gun so we can approach the battlefield and if you do… tell them “AA out”. It’s hard to write in chat when we have to dodge fire from an enemy plane on our 6’
I don’t want help form pilots, so you pilot Sr can kill 20+ enemies every 2 minutes? Cool, on that time I had to kill 4+ squads here on the ground while my rally point is the only built, sorry if I don’t have time to mark anything to you.
That grey zone camper tank? Well, you can see the big ass flash from it’s gun, don’t need me to mark it, also, I am in cover, that guy ain’t killing me.
Competent pilots are rare.
I’ve even had times where my team was laughing in chat at the enemy plan that was in the air that crashed itself more often than it actually killed anyone.
i can’t tell from 1500m if the f’in tank is behind a building lol, i might need to circle around and realign…
Never had this issue, but I don’t play Stalingrad or Berlin a lot that are the only places buildings are big enough to be a problem to see the flash, on Moscow, Tunisia and Normandy where I have some experience I can see the flash from far enough to allign my bomb, also, as I played infantry quite a lot what I do when I am on a good team that can hold the ground without me is spawn kill tanks bombing them as soon as they get out of the spawn, a few days ago had this easy ass match that I spawned my plane and did 7 successful bombing runs out of 7 total runs, no markers needed, just go there and bomb the place that the tanks usually are (being honest you have to be a special kind of dumb to see a plane spawn killing you and insisting on trying to spawn a tank)
You can see the flash and have the tank behind a building at the same time. And it also happens on Moscow and Normandy. Maybe you haven’t used a plane enough to encounter such situations.
I have encountered those situations, but if I can see the flash them I can maneuver without anyone marking it. (on truth I remember one of the rare occasions I used planes on Moscow instead of my tank someone marked this German 75mm behind a building and that made me lazy enough to dive on it without paying attention that there was a big ass building in front of it).
The point is, the plane is rarely needed any even more rare is a player with enough situational awareness to know when to spawn it and when to stay on the ground.
