Planes are way over powerful in BFV

It’s worse than that. It’s getting to the stage where I regularly see pilot players going 130-0 in breakthrough. I’ve seen squads of them go, combined, 250-0 in breakthrough.

It ruins games. Usually when these guys show up you are assured of a completely lopsided game and a lot of players on the non-pilot side just quit - which makes the game even more lopsided and not fun. These days when I see these pilots on the other side I just quit - although I’m stubborn enough to sometimes use the aa against them (which I’m very good at) until I go 10-0 (the pilot being 10). 

dice needs to tweak the scoring so there’s high points for shooting down planes, especially bombers and much lower points for killing guys on the ground. That’s because there’s no incentive for planes to shoot each other down. Watch them on the minimal - both sides planes spend large periods ignoring each other and doing bombing runs - sometimes side by side. 

then rather firing rate on a needs to be drastically upped. As you say it’s impossible  to shoot down most planes. 

other TERRIBLE features of the plane system: pilots can always see guns on their mini maps and screens If they want - it’s in the game settings. That should go because what they’re really doing is just lining up on that and bombing striding. I know that because I often fire on them and move to the side. They’ll keep bombing a gun site even if you’re not in it. Why? Because they can’t actually see you; they’re just attacking based on their mini map. That’s how easy it is. By comparison a gun pit is terribly sited, terribly protected, and you can’t see planes until they’ve come roaring in and killed you. Making the aa guns an exercise in unbalanced masochism. The gun-it’s need proper protection and they need to be better sited so they have the clear fields of fire they need. 

The guns also need better sights, especially at long range. I can hit a plane at max range. It will then - at max range - release a bomb that will hit me precisely. That’s physically impossible but it’s what the experienced pilots do. Against that a gun is 100% undefended and indefensible. The gun needs better range and better sites, not to mention a better rate of fire. If you’re a plane and you want to knock out an aa you need to be made to work for it. 

then there’s the weapons. Japanese planes with napalm? No. Rockets in 1940? No. Someone at dice doesn’t know their  history. Planes were NEVER effective tank busters during ww2. That’s a myth. They could be used to hit tanks but their successes were rare.  Stukas were only effective ground support precision bombers when the German had 100% air superiority. Almost all of the maps are unrealistic open field maps with no woods or cover, making tanks extremely vulnerable. 

the plane system and the complete lack of any way to counter that - combined with pilots of both sides being obsessed with KDRs and just wanting to drop bombs on people (I’m convinced most of the good plane pilots have OCD - what’s fun about going up and down for a whole game and just dropping bombs on people?) - is ruining this game. It definitely needs to be fixed.