Over Powered Air - Needs Balance

This is not to mention when any air asset hits a tree, the ground or whatever... they typically bounce off of it like a toy - Wow.... great call on that.  Maybe you should make the air assets bullets/rockets bounce off players at that same "toy" ratio... just stupid..

If you don't fix this, the game will be abandoned by most.

Yeah... Let's not be hyperbolic, it never works. 

But it's noticeable how unhealthy air vehicles feel compared to ground vehicles after they really put some work on those. I hope they will go through the same process with choppers and planes. 

Now that they've overtuned aircraft and the pilots have learnt how to take full advantage of the buffs, we really need Dice to take a serious look at aircraft and start toning down their offensive fire power. 

Just saw a reddit top post showing how easy and quick it is for a little bird to destroy an attack boat compared to RPGs, tank shells and attack choppers. 

Oh I absolutely agree the little bird needs some serious review. Either they nerf its armament, or they keep it as powerful as it is now but made out of wet paper. One or the other. 

I think once they fly out of HQs they shouldnt be allowed back in for a certain amount of time and dont make the launchers not be able to lock in if they are flying below certain altitude 

air needs its radar removed. its too much of an advantage and even the boat who has a radar on the cap doesnt get the functionality...

Without radar on the minimap they wouldn't be able to aqcuire targets so fast and would have to spend a lot more time searching, lining up and actually looking and orienting after rolls and loops. 

There are a few vehicle weapons that will one hit kill jets and littlebirds, but they are situational and hard. 

Once they fix the patch today jets on wake island can be laser designator so thats a good start, but agree all that can be done on this map is patrol boats just spam air lock missiles onto the enemy air vehicles you get more misses but will get some hits.

The game has become stupid. 

I'll repeat myself here.

A large part of the problem here is tied to engies getting 5-6 AA rockets on spawn.  With this many rockets, air has to have equivalent ability to defeat these rockets.  SO, air gets all these too high too low too close too far too this too that which is just a start to the ways it can defeat rockets.  THEN we move on to how flares remain in the air and force AA to lock on to flares instead of being able to lock on the air again.  This mechanic essentially lowers the flare cooldown to 6 seconds, as the flare is still defeating launchers for 5 seconds after being used.  Then you can add in something that should be classified as a glitch, which is that enemy flares from other air vehicles ALSO force you to lock the flare, and while that use is almost always a fluke, when it happens it can lower flare cooldown effectively to a negative number.  I mean that as the enemy air will be able to flare again while you are still dealing with flares because of how the lock on system works.  Then of course, we throw in how sometimes rockets just fail and miss even if the enemy never flares, never does any evasives, or does literally anything at all.  Just... missed.  NICE. 

The 5-6 rockets though does mean there is a skill floor for using air.  If you can't abuse the systems in place, you die.  You die FAST.  Really REALLY fast.  You die the kind of fast that results in a complete disregard for ever trying again because it feels completely unbalanced and broken and there is just certainly no way to ever win that match.  We know this isn't true, but to average players you're comparing this experience to ground vehicles, which you can actually figure out what you did wrong that lead you to die.  You're comparing it to infantry combat, which is VERY easy for a person to figure out what they're doing wrong... even if many people won't admit it's a skill issue. 

So the end result is people who are good with air DOMINATE because air is designed for the amateur to at least have a chance, but the reality is that the amateur doesn't have a chance to even learn while the master never has to worry about failing.

Over Powered Air - well this is the main reason why I stopped play BF6 completely... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb__MkBRD40 

what a fun!