I’ve been playing this game since launch, and I can say that the situation with the planes has never been so chaotic for the dynamics of the game, especially in Normandy, today any pilot, especially those who use rockets, completely dominate the game, without worrying about being shot down since the AA weapons do not cause any significant damage, being the only option to abandon your tank and use planes, even if you don’t like to fly
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Its not that “aircraft is toxic”.
Its that “lack of decent AA is toxic”.
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In my experience, those that hate something the most dont use it, or couldnt use it effectively themselves if they tried.
Not so much a matter of not taking your concern seriously…more that planes are niche and inherently cant win games.
Without holding some degree of power, they are a detriment or dead weight to winning a game
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I think the problem is more to do with perspective. The grass is always greener on the other side. When you face something like a tank or a plane you feel the impact it has on you, and it seems overpowered. But when you use the asset yourself only then do you see the downsides.
For example I had this with the paratroop event, where I play only Germans in Normandy. The allies got their paratroops after 8 days I believe, but the Germans only got them after 20, so we spent many battles facing a large increase in enemy paratroops and finding them very annoying. But when you come to unlock them yourself and play, only then do you recognize the downsides.
20 Kills from 1 rocket barage is very rare and takes some skill to pull off, but the only way you can appreciate that is if you go attempt to do it yourself.
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Id say thats just another “perspective” of expressing the same sentiment 
It sure is, but I think my point is that people who you were responding to ought to just widen their perspective by attempting to play this, and when they can’t get 20 rocket kills every 30 seconds, they’ll come to a more balanced point of view.
I can shoot planes down with the AA guns, their fast firing and more accurate than before, but you need to hit a few times, and that is generally consistent with how everything in the game works.
I totaly agreed with OP plane is very bad feature,the fact that they can have infinity bombs and rockets is stupid. They should can pass just one time and gone, like an ulti in Overwatch or bonus kill in COD not always.
Is just for bad players with bad aim for they continu to play…
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Literally everyone can have infinity ammo, but somehow it’s problem only with planes.
I bet majority of guys whose hating on planes did never use them. Planes are literally the least impactful squad.
You cant carry games. It’s heavily support based squad.
It’s just another extremely overused topic. Exactly same as WP, exactly same as flamethrower, exactly same as paras" exactly same as full auto “spam”.
It’s basically just mentality “I got wrecked by something in one match, so I demanding nerf for this particular thing”.
If anyone thinks planes “completely dominate the game”, I really doubt about his skill.
Planes do basically has ± minute reload, since they has to reach refill point. And they do not have capabilities to wipe whole one team.
Thes best of them, like P-47 with 10 HVAR rockets still can kill up to 25 people at best (meaning 3-5 squads if they’re cluttered around objective, artillery can do exactly the same).
Crying about planes are just another excuse for sucking at the game imho.
It’s really so annoying, just git gud.
There should be BA only mode for these nonstop crying types… They obviously cannot handle anything else.
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Because full auto weapons totally aren’t meta.
Open air capture points say hi
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There must always be a Meta.
Yes, but it can be weak enough it’s not worth to sacrifice the fun / divercity.
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I disagree with you. Playing non meta things isn’t problem even nowadays, you can still have nig influence on battle.
And it will even more relevant after merge/BR system.
If you can have big influence with non meta gear, you will have huge influence with meta.
You can’t convince me a guy sniping from spawn (even if he is great at it) is more benefitial to the team than a noob throwing explosives and bodies to the objective.
I hope so.
Though personally I think it will be a total disaster that either will destroy variety or won’t be balanced (aka won’t work).
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Yeah, but that’s very competitive mindset. And since in majority of cases you are playing against bots and casuals, it really doesn’t matter.
Ofc there are things like Tunisia Axis or Berlin allies nowadays. When you are basically in disadvantage for just playing those factions. And you don’t have stand a chance without meta things there.
But I don’t think that’s problem of equipment.
I agree.
Problem is that all it takes is one dick with comepetive mindset entering a game to turn it competetive.
I just want to have fun and play with stuff but it’s impossible when almost every player is playing meta shit.
Devs’ decisions don’t help either.
Yeah, in that case it’s a problem of playerbase unbalance.
One thing this damned BR MM may actually fix.
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Im all about the anti meta. Thats my style
Advantage lies in its unexpected
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Map design issue.
IMO, in pacific and Moscow bolts are totally competitive.
Last time I played moscow I was obliterated by PPSh, Federovs and rambo DP.
Stalingrad has a lot of BA rifles though. Much quieter place.
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