Okay as a pilot ill tell you how pilots feel:
Helicopters:
I get up, i kill all opponent helicopters. So next targets are ground, particulary light vehicles and infantry. After little while lockon hell starts, which means i need to fly low to be behind the covers. After small while rpg/sraw spam starts, including vehicle tows and guided munitions. So i'm locked from some areas, okay. I need to think about something new, wild soflam appears. I'm suddenly locked from 75% of the map (depends of the map). Yes i am stuck.
Jets:
Basically same problems, but i can get out of danger a little faster and stay out. But then there is wild MAA sitting at the spawn under "cram dome", means i can't deal any other damage than main cannon and meanwhile he scans me other side of map with lockons. I get almost in, quick surge on something and out. Mostly i need to cancel strafe cause i have one set of flares so i need to use - means i can't do anything to the ground.
About lockons: I tried igla, locking on can reach up to 800m. If you shoot it at close range, missile will fail. But if its far and pilot flares right after, it will relock. Also depends on angle - means if jets is close to ground, most likely missile will hit ground when flared. Overall lockons problems with lockons usage? Well imagine if most of lockons would hit, how many of anything would you see flying? None...
RPG:
What? Rpg is still accurate asf:
And i have some clips at home, just waiting for new heli to spawn, meanwhile spamming rpg and getting some aircrafts dropped.
But thats how it is, if there is good and skilled pilot, thats the reward. TO get there is a lot of sweating and training. But game still offers noobfriendly killing against skilled ones. But don't expect it to be a lockon
Its really not that hard to to fly in a way where your impossible to shoot down. As it is now if you take out the aa routinely you have nothing to worry about . I generally fly max speed the whole game just off the ground and go to attack elevation only when im hitting a vehicle or objective and thats briefly. Rpgs just simply dont hit you anymore in a majority of games. As long as you have a gunner who is scanning the area and teammates calling out the enemy aircraft it is near impossible to get shot down. Then their are the pilots who fly too high and hover that are impossible to shoot down but that isnt my style. I routinely go half to the whole game in the chopper. Thats a problem. Im not even elite in flying either
It's cause you get bot lobbies. Trust me, i've been in games where you get smacked. My friend is great pilot in 6. We also do these routines and calls. But if you repeat that same strat over again and again, you will run into the guy who wants you dead... And just going forward with highspeed on lowground is as easy rpg shot as hoovering. It's question of positioning, most rookies don't even bother reposition themselves. Anyways, meanwhile rpg gets velocity drop, it at least will ease rpg spamming.
It also eased generations of precedent for the game . Thank god battlefield isnt battlefield anymore
