I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

[timsgameonline]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

I know you all probably think I'm just saying this because I'm not a pilot...maybe that's true, but here me out. Airpower is just ripping apart this game. If the other time has 1 more good pilot than yours, first off, any strategy or team work becomes impossible. If you are getting shot at by a sniper you can take cover in an area where he can't get you, and perhaps sneak up behind him. If you see a tank coming, you can run to an area where it can't get you. But when there's airpower in the game all you can do is get in the AA, get in another aircraft, or die. AA is luck as far as I can see, and airpower...well, what the heck kind of strategy or teamwork could you use there? Aircraft is just about aim and experience as far as I can see. Second, where's this rock paper scissors system EA speaks of? If air is paper, what are the scissors? AA misses 90% of the time, and gets a team kill another 7% for no logical reason. Meanwhile it just takes one quick swoop from the heli or jet and that AA is blown to bits. Worst of all is the ability they have to repair. If you damage a heli or jet (damage a jet, aren't I hiliarous), you can get it off your teams back for a few seconds, but get no credit for your help. Fourth, airpower has no reflection on the skill of who it kills, just on the one doing the killing, unlike infantry, tanks, and maybe even AA. It is just like artillery, you simply need to stay out of large crowds and hope to god you get lucky. I don't have anything against pilots. I don't blame them for using airpower while it is there, but the airpower is just taking so much out of the game.

Just get over it and fight. Winge winge winge....

[Harmor]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

If you can't beat them...join them:



We were on the USMC bomber the whole round. Hardwire is a really good pilot and I was his gunner.

[rjw72]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

I do think on certain maps with good pilots the game becomes very hard, its good for the pilots but everyone elses games is rubbish. yes the pilots have a great time but everyone else has no fun at all.
that said you can down planes if you work at it, i played a game i while a go where one plane ruled the game, we had lost all out spawn points on land and were fighting from the aircraft carrier, it was open day for the planes who just bombed the hell out of it. I jumped on the anti aircraft gun and spent the whole game fighting the same guy, he killed me 8 times i shot him down 6 times, 2 of those 6 times he bailed and we ended up fighting on the deck of the carrier. but with normal anti aircraft weapons on the spwan points its a lot harder to shot them down before they bomb you.
i like the idea that the planes would have to land to repair/reload would also like to see the anti aircraft points further away from the spawn points that way the planes have to decided weather to do there bombing run or take out anti aircraft, (might give the people in the base a bit more af a chance).

[BigBadBob]

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Uhm, that was a modification..

big ****ing deal. It was the same on that map with a good Stuka pilot.

[SpeedyGonzales]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

If you can't beat them...join them:


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We were on the USMC bomber the whole round. Hardwire is a really good pilot and I was his gunner.

join them? no thanks... its borrrrrrring...

[imported_Wasp]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

The planes should have 1! smart bomb and should only be able to fire it after a squad leader or member paints a target. The queue on the runway would prolly become much smaller then since theres no more no skill WW2 carpet bombing.. Imho the so called movable spawn points (squad leaders) don't work because they die so fast you rarely get a chance to spawn on them. Instead you end up getting hammered on fixed bases BF1942 style..

[puglous]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

Just get over it and fight. Winge winge winge....

Wow! Someone's orginal. I'm pointing out areas for EA to make improvements. Now could you turn down stupid for a second so they can hear me?

[imported_bigpappa]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

i pwn now since my joystick is working again

[CS-Evolution]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

Flying in BF2 wouldn't be so boring if the controls for airplanes didn't feel so sloppy. Go play a real flight simulator, come back and fly in BF2 and you'll see what I mean.

[puglous]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

That would make everyone happy for a while.

[Riggz]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

To me, helicopters aren't that bad..but planes..whew..they're dominant. I used to just mess around with planes but now I took the time to learn how to fly, dogfight, bomb and use the guns. I've died maybe 30 times in the month or 2 in a plane. Most of those deaths are from accidently hitting the ceiling and not being able to recover and teamkills. Every once in a while an stinger will hit me or a jet will tag me but I'm able to easily escape and shake them off and repair. AA still needs to be amped up to balance the game.

[iewgnem]

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Flying in BF2 wouldn't be so boring if the controls for airplanes didn't feel so sloppy. Go play a real flight simulator, come back and fly in BF2 and you'll see what I mean.

Adapt, there are huge difference between flight sim and BF2 but then again they are two entirely different games, theres nothing to prevent you from being good at both.

[Shabubu]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

Flying in BF2 wouldn't be so boring if the controls for airplanes didn't feel so sloppy. Go play a real flight simulator, come back and fly in BF2 and you'll see what I mean.

Yeah, not to mention so innacurate/unrealistic. I hate how the throttle is so damn sensitive

[CS-Evolution]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

Adapt, there are huge difference between flight sim and BF2 but then again they are two entirely different games, theres nothing to prevent you from being good at both.

I didn't say I wasn't good at flying in BF2. In fact, flying in BF2 is much easier than flying in a flight simulator game. I said the feel of the controls and the physics are completely wacked, and it makes flying boring.

[imported_The 13th Raptor]

Re: I'm so sick of airpower ruining this game!

big ****ing deal. It was the same on that map with a good Stuka pilot.

You obviously dont know what you are talking about, none of the really good pilots used the Stuka, SBD or the Val since they were slow pieces of **** that even an apc could blow out of the sky within 5 seconds. Now fighters doing the "Loop 'n bomb", those were dangerous, but far from immune. And none of them dominated the game as much as the guys in Bf2 do, as they did not have the fancy little squares to point out where every vehicle and defensive point was.