The jet experience has never been worse.

Jets in battlefield are absolutely pointless, and not even just that they don't have any measurable impact on the game, but that the entire experience of using jets in this game has never been worse than it is in this iteration.

There are two jets per side, but no queue to join if you want to have a go in one, so what ends up happening is you sit there AFK, spamming space or just holding a macro in the hope that in 30 seconds you actually get to play the game. This is absolutely miserable. Why does it have to be like this? Brother, just put an option in the matchmaking to queue into playing as one of the teams two pilots. This can only be good for the game. People who want to play in the jets are already just sitting there doing absolutely nothing, taking a squad member away from another squad, crippling it, so why not just give the role a queue. This is just a single suggestion, this has plagued battlefield games since they came out, why don't you care that a proportion of the population playing your game spend most of their time bored waiting staring at a map when they might not even get the vehicle they are waiting for?

Anti air vehicles are comically easy to use and completely oppress jets. They can sit at the back of the map and just make it so that the person playing in the jet cannot do anything, but why do they have to be in the game at all? You already have AA gun emplacements, you already have manpads, why do you also need an entire vehicle who's sole purpose is to make the game objectively less fun for a proportion of the population? It is not fun to sit in the AA vehicles, you literally just sit there, wait for some flashing symbol on the hud, press one button and that's literally it. There isn't a strategy to it, it isn't some grand play that totally owns the enemy, you just sit there drooling, watching tiktok on your second monitor and ruin the gameplay of jets.

The maps are so small. Seriously, I wanna say about 1/4 of the time I spawn in a jet I spawn being actively locked . What is going on? I spawn in, being locked, take off, die, wait 30 seconds, someone takes the vehicle, they instantly die, I wait for the next go around, spawn in being locked.... It's rediculous. And I'm not being funny but there is so much AA you can't fly over half the map without being shot at if you're lucky, you can't just have a dogfight, it's you vs the enemy vs 10 manpads, AA guns and AA vehicles. And for what? This leads me to my next point.

The jets are basically completely ineffective. You might be able to strafe a guy if you are lucky enough to have an enemy team that is completely incompetent and doesn't understand how easy it is to oppress jets, but a full cooldown of guns won't kill a tank, you have to use a bomb. Why? It's so easy to kill a tank as any other class, flying a jet might be the least effective, least reliable way to destroy vehicles in this game.

The visibility in jets is so poor. Why can't they manoeuvrer while activating free look? Why is free look down on the dpad, why is the FOV so small, half your screen or more in 3rd person is taken up by the jet. It makes no sense, it's like trying to play looking through a letter box. Come on now.

So what is the purpose of these vehicles? You can't get in them reliably, you can't fly around over the map looking for a dogfight, you are useless against infantry, you are marginally effective against vehicles, so what is the point? Did you just put them in the game because the games identity relied on having land, sea and air? It's like a pretend vehicle that is just there so people on the ground can feel cool for shooting one down. You literally might as well replace them with hot air balloons and we can drop grenades off the side.

That's my rant, jets absolutely suck cheese in this game and they aren't fun. I feel like I wasted my time trying to have fun in them