About the AA a better balance is to reduce the range of missiles - what i believe is 600 to 400 meters -
the missiles are indeed an issue currently as well as the bullets, i still feel with the way the maps are designed that it would be best if the AA tanks/launchers were turned into the BFV or bf1 type of weapon, it would force players to go to specific locations to defend against aircraft (usually near objectives) making it more balanced.
If I wanted to kill a jet or helicopter I could either find the WW1/2 era emplacement or get the antiaircraft vehicle and move near an objective where i am equally vulnerable to aircraft as they are to me.
i was testing jets and helicopters the other day in portal against all AI and its still frustrating, stingers everywhere, jets feel weird to fly as they somehow feel slow to fly but seem extremely fast when trying to aim at anything as you get 2-3 seconds of aiming before you have to pull up, helicopters are a pain in the rear to aim because of the stupid forward movement part.
overall i ended up going to BFV to play with planes (went something like 27 or 37 to 3 which is great for me), and played 2042 for land land-based modern setting fighting.
I hated some of the stuff in BF4 and still hate it in BF2042 because it feels they reverted back from the good things BF1 and BFV did, stingers/ AA, in general, are always annoying to be against and cheap to use, being in a helicopter and having to switch between gunner/pilot if someone spawns just to drop in sucks because people spawn in and crash or spawn in and do nothing of value but cause you to be seen because they won't stop shooting at random things,
this one is just something I always hated, and that is the fact they "patched" thermal vision scopes in 4 to not work through smoke and kept that in 2042, even though it is a valid tactic on narrow or long sight line paths especially if used on an LMG to hold down a lane against a large force of enemies, the counter was always super simple as well, flashbangs, lights, or fire as those defeat the scope and can allow a quick push to take those guys out. Plus thermal in real life does work through some smoke depending on the density, its also odd because if they wanted them accurate they wouldn't function at all through glass and yet they work perfectly fine through glass and across the map as my 6x thermal sniper scope proves
@Flameofdarkchaos wrote:
Due to the ranked server selection system in BF2042, for the most part I always play on vehicles. I am constantly haunted by the feeling that there are complete cheaters with WeillHack playing around me when I play as an infantryman. It turns out that when I get more than 30 to 2 deaths in a helicopter and they throw me onto a fierce server where I, as an infantryman, don’t even have time to take aim at the enemy. This is what pisses me off about BF2042. Then my son comes in to play on my account and also gets an unpleasant game.
This mess, of course, can only be corrected by the server browser, but DICE doesn’t seem to be planning this at all.
any of the BF games ive played, but particularly all the ones made after 4, it has become obvious that dice's solution to "balancing" teams is if you get stuck with a completely useless team vs a very op team that somehow you deserve to stick with that, but if you do well and only focus on kills and get decent amounts it becomes a coin toss if you will get put into an entirely different server of players or if you will be stuck with the same people or not in which case youd be moved to the already over powered team to make it even less fun for everyone involved.
its made worse that you cant switch teams anymore which while abused because some people dont like losing, was much better when you have to be stuck on a team who either cant or dont want to actually play. i have had days where ive changed servers multiple times and ended up with people legitimately sitting in spawn twirling a tank and most of the team is climbing on it while the objectives are all captured by the half player count enemy team.
ive been wanting to play with vehicles more especially jets and tanks but its really difficult for some reason, land vehicles are easier to work with and i can get some kills but aircraft in 2-42 do nothing for me at all, and i hate it, while i do enjoy BF1 and BFV it sucks that i have to go to those games just to fly planes if thats what im in the mood for because 2042, and 4 are not fun experiences for such things
