Friggin Airpower!

[Robske007a]

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I see BF2 as having 2 main maps:

Infantry and tank maps.

I mainly play the urban maps but once in a while I fancy a bit of tank pounding............why oh why do i have to put up with being bombed every 2 second on those maps with dominant airpower??

I actually like those open maps where you can travel around in a tank, and do some blasting. At least Songhua (sp)? isnt spoiled!

Why dont plane pilots fly a real sim, Like Falcon 4 if they want to fly?

I know I'm going to hear the old "oh buts a modern battle field you fool" replies, but the planes really do spoil the action.

Get to flag....get bombed....travel to flag.....get bombed......find another free flag....get bombed.....spawn.....get bombed


Arghhhhh........I'm going to go off and get BOMBED !!!!!:cry:

thanks for the therapy

Now i'm MAD!!!!! BF2 is a great game because you can do everything!!! If you delete the planes... BF2 will be deleted 2

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[Robske007a]

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I think i killed you to much :-) sorry for that , but ur my #1 victim

[unlimitedmp]

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I'd like it if the fighters were given 1 bomb and bombers were given 2 or 3 bombs (like in 42 .. cept bombers had 2).

Also, AA would be much more effective if it didn't go after friendlies. I'm usually too afraid to fire at a plane because there is a higher probability that the missile will veer off and kill a teammate that I can't even see.

[Terroser]

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I'd like it if the fighters were given 1 bomb and bombers were given 2 or 3 bombs (like in 42 .. cept bombers had 2).

Also, AA would be much more effective if it didn't go after friendlies. I'm usually too afraid to fire at a plane because there is a higher probability that the missile will veer off and kill a teammate that I can't even see.

Omg please stop crying.
read my tips and you will be fine

[unlimitedmp]

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Omg please stop crying.
read my tips and you will be fine

Your tips are for tanks which are hit quite easily even behind cover.

I'm usually the one bombing and flying the fighters and it's too easy! There's no challenge really. AA? I turn and everything misses. Enemy fighters? I just go loop to loop or in a circle until they get bored and tire of me or I shake them.

[zuiquan1]

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wow, if you all want to play infantry only games go play counter strike and leave us alone

[imported_The 13th Raptor]

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Planes need to be nerfed or AA needs to be boosted.
Good thing AA is being boosted, not that it helped last time, but we can always hope.

The problem with the balance is obvious, if one player can rack up a 120 point score by himself on a standard server, something is wrong, especially if so many people can do it, which is the case in BF2. The amount of skill involved to achieve something with jets is disproportionate compared to the rest of the game, thus, balance is f00ked.

Jets/defence against jets is not "fine". If you believe it is, you are blind.

[Six.]

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Isn't it possible for AT infantry to use their missile sight (right mouse button hold) to make any vehicle or aircraft think it has been locked on by a missile? (as long as you keep your sight on the vehicle/aircraft) this might just help keep the pressure on fighters and bombers enough to keep them off your back- and have him circle around more than attacking.

If it works- it might just be a good enough technique to repel the so called over-whelming airpower.

[UnrealAlex]

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Hello, My name is Alex, and Im a bomb-a-tank-oholic.

[Donkey]

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Something tells me the orginal poster would rather nerf pats of the game instead of adapt strategically to the game...Simple solution dont go driving out in the open use cover, pop smoke, dont travel on the well defined pathways...etc etc...seems to work fine for me

[zuiquan1]

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EA/DICE already nerfed BF2 enough as is, there is absolutely no learning curve

[Six.]

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Yeah, it's the thing these days- everyone expects the game should be easy and join a server thinking they're gonna get heaps of kills as long as they have a weapon and that they rush in headlong into battle without a thought of overwhelming numbers plus vehicles and aircraft.
And then for those whose realisation is quite the other (that it's not all that easy at all) - some end up taking to cheating, hacking and exploiting.

People need to develop some patience- then comes the developing of tactics, strategies and SKILL! I'm forming a squad with my local buddies, and we're developing tactics and strategies to address as many situations in BF2 as possible. Call me too serious... but hey, I'm actually doing it coz it's great to see tactics, strategies and plans work on BF2.

[raceacontari]

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People need to develop some patience- then comes the developing of tactics, strategies and SKILL! I'm forming a squad with my local buddies, and we're developing tactics and strategies to address as many situations in BF2 as possible. Call me too serious... but hey, I'm actually doing it coz it's great to see tactics, strategies and plans work on BF2.

no, you're right. The people that whine and complain about the game so much are usually those people that just bought it and expected to be Rambo their first day. Those of us that have been playing forever tend to more want just simple bugs fixed...like...for me, the airpower didn't need to be nerfed, just the AA fixed so you might actually hit something after 10 missiles...and I mean something besides blowing up your own blackhawk with 6 guys in it that all punish you...

after playing for a while...i found what works and what doesn't. Hiding sometimes is better than engaging. Standing the the middle of the road with your missile launcher trying to kill a tank tends to make you dead very soon. Walking down the very road itself tends to get you killed faster as well, etc. Jets and choppers look for easy targets, and the same applies to tanks and APC's. If you make yourself and easy target, expect to be killed a lot more often than not. If you learn to use strategy and tactics...well, then you start killing a lot more than dying.

[Six.]

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no, you're right. The people that whine and complain about the game so much are usually those people that just bought it and expected to be Rambo their first day. Those of us that have been playing forever tend to more want just simple bugs fixed...like...for me, the airpower didn't need to be nerfed, just the AA fixed so you might actually hit something after 10 missiles...and I mean something besides blowing up your own blackhawk with 6 guys in it that all punish you...

after playing for a while...i found what works and what doesn't. Hiding sometimes is better than engaging. Standing the the middle of the road with your missile launcher trying to kill a tank tends to make you dead very soon. Walking down the very road itself tends to get you killed faster as well, etc. Jets and choppers look for easy targets, and the same applies to tanks and APC's. If you make yourself and easy target, expect to be killed a lot more often than not. If you learn to use strategy and tactics...well, then you start killing a lot more than dying.

Thats why my squad makes slow advances- and when on foot (or in light vehicles) we usually avoid the main arteries of battle (ie: center road in Karkand. When we come up against a medium or heavy vehicle- we avoid them at most; if not- we usually disperse and take cover and use our 'engage' tactic which involves a smoke grenade, the AT hanging back with the Medic/Ambulance whilst keeping the enemy vehicle's attention while SpecOps and Assault flanks the vehicle and attempts to finish it off. Teamwork makes the game just that bit easier, AND a heck of a lot more enjoyable.

I hardly complain about the gameplay- like you, mostly just about bugs and certain exploits. Even spawn campers are no problem for us because we just devise a way to deal with them one way or another.

[IntensivCareBear]

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fixed wing aircraft DONT dominate.

even with a joystick, you need plenty of skill to bomb pinpoint targets and not do things like crash into helicopters.

much more than aiming a tank sight or a sniper rifle... and nobody complains about sniper even though its painfully obvious they just suck too much to play the game properly, and should only exist to be knifed by me.

the ATTACK HELICOPTERS are TOO TOUGH now, but that will be FIXED IN PATCH 1.2

ALSO, PLAY SF OR KARKAND! NO FIGHTERS THERE! OR MASHTUUR!