Air Play is Dead.
THEY LISTENED TO US!!! IT'S FIXED!! BACK TO THE SKIES!! Am I the only one who thinks that anti-air has completely ruined the entire aspect of air support and aircraft in the game? You get into the sky for 10 seconds and you have 15 stingers, twenty laser paints, and MR missiles guaranteeing you're not going in the air. It's virtually impossible to provide air support in 90% of the games. Don't think you'll get out of your spawn with a plane before being painted and having to hit the deck and do evasive maneuvers five feet from the ground. Just to pop back up and do it all over again. It either comes down to the fact that stingers are unlocked too early in the game and the MR missile is indefensible on top of the maps being too small to even try and dogfight out of the range of stingers. Or... Battlefield hates aircraft. Either way, an entire aspect of the game, one of the most unique to Battlefield, is ruined and basically unusable because these players don't want to leave their spawn and sit there with every anti-air option available to them while we fly with one set of flares and no reasonable way to counter them. Even more so, it's so easy to do the players aren't leaving the spawn, and now the game itself isn't being played the way it's meant to be played. The fact that most of the time, their team loses the game because it's so unbalanced that's all they do, doesn't matter at all. I love losing a game because half the team wont leave the back of the maps. Not as much as I love aircraft being virtually defenseless... Okay rant over.. 15+ years of enjoying dogfights and air support is over, I guess.
