Major imbalance coming on the maps where the two-seaters arrived
Hello,
Since Update 2.1.2.0, the base jets have been replaced by the Top Gun two-seaters (F/A-81F Super Spectre and F-74A Seacat) on Tsuru Reef, Blackwell Fields and Operation Firestorm. No more F-61V / F-22 for NATO, no more F39-E / SU-57 for Pax Armata. This change isn’t mentioned anywhere in the update notes.
I play almost exclusively as a jet pilot, with close to 500 hours on the base jets. I uninstalled the game yesterday because of this change. Here’s why it isn’t just a matter of personal taste.
- These maps aren’t built for two-seaters
Since the last AA tank buff, survival time in a jet on these maps is already very short. Tanks get elevation on the terrain, line up at jet altitude and shred you in one burst. The players who like the two-seaters will try them for a few days, get destroyed over and over, and quit too. Nobody wins here. - It throws off the whole ground balance
The two-seaters’ air-to-ground loadout is far less effective against armor than the F-61V’s or the F39-E’s. The result: tanks no longer get destroyed from the air, and it’s the infantry on the ground that ends up facing a pile of armor. This doesn’t only affect pilots
I’m not the only one: I opened a thread on r/PilotsofBattlefield and it reached the top of the subreddit, with several pilots reporting the same issue and asking for the base jets back. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/PilotsofBattlefield/comments/1xsunl3/2120_removed_the_base_jets_on_blackwell_firestorm/
Two possible solutions
Solution 1 (the best one): bring back the base jets on these three maps, as it was before 2.1.2.0. These maps were balanced with those jets in mind.
Solution 2: if you want to keep the two-seaters on these maps, let us pick our aircraft at deploy, like we could in BF2042. Each side would choose between its base jets and the two two-seaters, with a 2-jets-airborne limit per team. Everyone flies what they prefer, and the number of aircraft in the sky doesn’t change. (Mockup attached, not an in-game screenshot.)
If this is a bug, please fix it. If it’s intentional, please reconsider.
Platform: PC
Mode: Conquest