Thoughts from 'the dark side' as an aircraft pilot

As expected, the whataboutism has started

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@CDNAngryPenguin wrote:

After all of the aircraft apologists on this forum started victim blaming people who actually play this FPS as just that...

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You say that like this isn't a combined arms game, which means in many instances the FPS is almost entirely removed (third person, firing: tank shells, mortars, rockets, etc, not "shooting"). That's a you problem, the game is functioning as intended in this regard.

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But it got me thinking. What sort of person jumps into BF2042 to do this? I certainly have my strong opinions here and will reserve them so they remain in my brain (e.g. not good things to say)

I think the same way about snipers that sit in the back of spawn, miss 90% of their shots but think their one headshot they hit by chance makes them good.

You arent fooling anyone. You have 68 kills with the Huron total. Good pilots easily surpass that in one game. You likely didn’t do enough damage for the other team to care to take you out. Go against some the the Lis players I know and you’d get knocked out instantly.

Attack aircraft were decreased to 1 per side in season one which hardly helped the player count. Aircraft counts were increased in season 3 which coincides with the largest increase in players the game has seen. Quit trying to project you being farmed by aircraft onto everyone else. It’s beyond pathetic. The low player count is due to DICE’s lack of content and horrendous playlists. 

Ignore objectives?? You are saying that I SHOULD CAP FLAG with bird/huron/apache? :D

@disabled_tweekerOh damn, i didn't even realize. I checked OP stats. Lmfao

Even if i have double playtime more than you have. You have:
Objective Time
5h 56m (we can add up to ~15hours to even with my playtime)

And me:
Objective Time
46h

Wich makes me better teamplayer than you. And you have 91 huron kills, with quick calculations, you have ~22 kills per match. That means either you camp with helo or you died.

EDIT: Oh and objective defended i have more than 3k, means i'm at least looking at objectives. You with 500 don't much?

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@MADMAC50K wrote:
@CDNAngryPenguinI'm of the same opinion. The only people enjoying this game right now are the infantry famers. The numerous pilots that totally ignore the objectives, and other aircraft, and fly across the open spaces (and let's face there are still lots of those) whilst holding left mouse. DICE just empowered them to do more of it with less fear of retaliation. This isn't BF anymore, it's Infantry Farming Simulator 2023...

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Funny you say that. One of my conquest rounds yesterday was on that night  2042 map.

The enemy team actually had a proper role distribution which made at least a quarter of their infantry be on anti vehicle duty which meant that for every vehicle, the attacks were constant from multiple angles and directions.

They came for our squad vehicles with both direct attacks, guerilla warfare from hills, crates and cranes along with the occasional help from their own vehicles.

We had to actually give up on using vehicles because we were just a big target as a vehicle.

I was not even mad but proud of them for playing well.

Victory is supposed to go to the team which uses combined arms best (infy, vehicles and air).

The BF2042 vehicles are far from being the BF1 behemoths, they will be in trouble if they receive the right response to their threat.

Players need to remember that the infantry are still the vast majority and they can use this to their advantage instead of dueling vehicles.

Even the currently overpowered attack helicopters are far from hard to take down with infantry. Just yesterday 1 of my friends took down 2 of them with just the M5 recoiless.