Game is too air vehicle dominated

I feel the pain 

Last night i had fun in the AA on spearhead parked up at C and kept the air vehicles to one half of the map.

Sadly it has to be more than one person fighting air vehicles.

If you're fighting air vehicles you are not properly equipped to play the objective. It's ether fight vehicles or PTO no in-between.

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@FollowTheORI wrote:

Game is too much air dominated... not fun anymore, being * constatnly * by napalm bomber or Nightbird and Attack heli "pros", and anti air / stinger is too weak to counter them...

This needs massive rebalancing or reduction in number of air vehicles by half.

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The problem with the BF games set on any time that is modern is that  there is a considerable reliance on lock on weapons.

But lock on weapons are either feast or famine; They will either do a far too easy job of taking out an aircraft or they will completely be negated by countermeasures.

I think that the ground to air situation is more reasonable on the games where due to the setting there are only flak cannons available, if you aim well you hit the aircraft and the only things it can do is to retreat to fight back.

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Now that we went through the design issues, lets talk a bit about the numbers.

I disagree that the problem with the air vehicles is their number. There are a lot more infantry soldiers in the team at any time, if even 5% of them take anti air seriously they can turn the airspace around them into a hazard zone which will help the friendly AA vehicles/aircraft have a considerable advantage vs the enemy aircraft.

Remember this is a team oriented game and what determines victory is how many players on each team will act like soldiers in a battle instead of grade schoolers in an amusement park.

Another thing about the numbers... less does not mean better, if anything is gets worse. The biggest worry of a farm happy aircraft is that someone decent will take the next spawn of jet/heli and take them out at an inopportune moment. So the fewer the aircraft on the map, the larger the window mr heli/bomber pro has to take a bigger bite out of the ground forces, the Haven map with is single Nightbird per team with no Wildcats, jeeps or jets on the map is an example of what happens with too few aircraft slots.

So as far as the numbers of aircraft on the map is concerned, the solution is more and not less

@UP_Hawxxeye thank you.

@FollowTheORI Usually when we play, we are sitting in discord with 3-7 players, we all take air vehicles. We give calls and help each other. Our number one enemy is wildcat.

I am one of those infantrymen who are plagued by aircraft. According to some, players who fight mainly with vehicles practice on portals every time a vehicle is weakened. I disagree. If the enemy does not oppose them, vehicles can kill infantry very easily, no matter who uses them. I think the interval between the appearance of the vehicles and the right to use them needs to be well controlled. Or, for example, if it is a nightbird, have the gunner hold the trigger of the weapon. That way, the players will inevitably have to cooperate with each other, so that the pilot can't solve everything by himself. If multiple people are working together, I don't think it would be unreasonable, even if they are that powerful.

@Gurz1019_MP
I believe that Kaleidoscope suffers from a plainly bad map design.
It is also very uncomfortable for the jets there to having to pick between a large exposed lane where the wildcat can lock on from almost anywhere or to weave between skyscrapers and a very small air only outer zone.

Personally I think it is better to have more and weaker aircraft than a 1-2 powerful ones.

The stationary flak cannons on bases on BF1/BFV  were a great way to make the interaction between ground and air less one sided. It is lacking on BF games on modern settings

@Hudson1531Teamwork has always been the key in Battlefield games. A 64 player match only needs one or two coordinated squads on one side to easily tip the balance.

The issue with BF2042 is that a big part of the OG BF community who knew how to team play has left. Apart from the quality and direction of the game at launch, the lack of support for clans and platoons is detrimental to this.
My clan, which was a global clan with whom me and me 2 friends played BFV with has completely disappeared.

Usually I play with my 2 friends one night per week, the rest of the time I play solo with randoms. The difference is so big. When I play with my friends and we encounter one of the notorious pilots, the teamplay of the 3 of us usually is enough to chase him out of the server as soon as he realizes it won’t be an easy farming simulator.
Whenever I’m alone playing with randoms it’s a completely different story even though I try to encourage my team by picking up a soflam and start painting every vehicle.