The title explains it. Just having to queue for 5 minutes, desperately hoping that your team’s pilot gets shot down or just dives too deep like an idiot so you can snatch that pilot’s role is ridiculous. And there’s no way I’ll play infantry in the meantime because I survive for longer than 10 seconds, which makes me unable to pretty much ever get the pilot’s role before some other dude snatches it.
Also, needs the ability to chat while choosing class. One way to make myself at least marginally useful while waiting
You agree with me but want to say I’m wrong cause you don’t like me. That’s perfectly understandable tbh. You just need to admit I’m right like you know I am
Dude just go play WoWarplanes or War Thunder if you want to fly and only fly. You’re in an infantry game complaining about not wanting to play infantry.
Your statement is utterly disgusting and the way you play (aka not-playing-unless-I-can-bomb-and please-my-ePenis) is cancer.
You want to fly? Play CAP.
Why add a plane role if it’s impossible to farm it? And also, what’s so bad about playing with the plane? I mean, they added the role there to be played. I’ve gotten bored of infantry for now due to max-leveling all the roles I care about, and now there’s only the attacker pilot left to level.
With your reasoning “you want to fly? Play CAP” there’s a role that’s there purely so no one can play it
Your statement is utterly disgusting and the way you play (aka not-playing-unless-I-can-bomb-and please-my-ePenis) is cancer.
You want to fly? Play CAP.
This is just nonsensical. I don’t know if I insulted you somehow. Maybe you thought my retort to ShockJohnson was a retort to you personally or something
I don’t think many of you responding realize, that this issue could be really easily solved in a way you’d like, especially the infantry advocates, which is what I mentioned. Just the ability to queue while playing as infantry, and then have the game give the first in the queue a 10-second timer to either take the role or refuse, giving the timer to the next in line. This should make the infantry advocates happy, as I’ll be able to play infantry while waiting for the role rather than having to surf the web while waiting in the class choosing screen uselessly. Then it’ll make me happy for sure, as I’ll get to play the game and progress while in queue.
i assume you are talking about the 60 seconds wait to use an aircraft because this is weirdly worded because if so then it needs to stay because it’s not fun being wiped as you spawn by an a-20 or more likely an bf110 hell it wasn’t like that and it make CAS more powerful than it currently is
no, it’s not about that at all. It’s about how a single player playing real conservative with the pilot role can hog the pilot role for the duration of the entire match, while no one can do anything about it, and it’s also a suggestion on how the devs could easily fix or at least alleviate the issue.
if the guy is doing well in the aircraft then he deserves to stay up there but if the pilot is terrible, portioned to the payload since weaker payloads ain’t gonna do much, then i’m sorry
No one said anything about effectiveness. Haven’t you ever had someone drop their bombs from cruising height like a bomber plane but just with a dive bomber? That’s exactly what I’m talking about.
And what if that player happens to be really good at his job? What if he provides friendly air support and keeps enemy planes from harassing the team? If a player isn’t an idiot and can keep themselves alive while being useful to the team as CAS, then they should be allowed to “hog” the role. Is it wrong to prefer certain roles? No, of course not. But the fact of the matter is, is that this is primarily an infantry game. Are their tanks and planes? Of course. They can be very effective. But there is a cap to how many can be on the battlefield at a time, and that’s not going to change. Infantry however does not have a cap.
If you can’t get into a plane or tank, take out an infantry squad and help your team win. If you die, try again for a vehicle. Throughout an entire game you should have multiple chances to actually spawn in to a tank or plane, especially if the enemy team is doing well and actually taking down your team’s vehicles. Otherwise, I find the notion of “browsing the internet” and literally sitting around doing nothing just to grab a plane, while your team is literally dying trying to win, to be distasteful.
I honestly don’t know what to tell you without coming off as an ass just because you tend to like planes in a game where infantry plays the most prominent role (in the grand scheme). I don’t know… maybe change the system to be like Warthunder ground forces? Where you can be putzing about in a tank, a button shows up asking if you want to take out a bomber or fighter, and you get whisked off to be in a plane until you die or the duration is up. The cycle then repeats, and I believe the system worked where there was 1 bomber slot someone could take, and 2 fighter slots. This happened during the battle when you were in a tank, so you often had to find a safe spot to take control of a plane or it would get your tank on the ground killed.
I’m just spitballing. I really don’t know how to solve such an issue, as I don’t really see much of a problem with the current role system from a personal point of view. I just main infantry, and if the team needs a tank and doesn’t have one, I get into a vehicle on my next wipe. If the spot gets taken, I just play something else.