Playing top tier air is not fun at all. It doesn’t have anything to do with your aircraft anymore. It’s missiles. You either have good missiles and a lot of them, or your experience of gameplay is just dying over and over again. And not like you can defend from these missile either really. Trying to use multipathing is inconsistent. Sometimes flying at 40 meters will save your life, sometime you’ll die at 20 meters altitude. Ofc to this would be the solution of flying defensive, going diagonal to the missile launch. Which does work, but then you have zero ways of attacking because as soon as you turn towards the enemy you get a missile in your face.
It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even know how to play this mode effectively, and neither do I know how this situation can be fixed, but it is just unbearable.
Player density is the main issue that needs to be fixed. Right now, there are too many players in too small of an area.
Reduce player counts, and reducing the distance that markers show up will go a long way to making that better.
Markers don’t really have to do anything with it since they’ll pick you up on radar 70kms away. Less players and bigger maps might make it slightly better. Also the darkness of the maps don’t help either when everything is so dark that you can’t tell if you’re gonna crash into the ground multipathing or not
We had a bug for 1 day after the November patch with removed markers, and the gameplay changed extremely in a positive way.
It does seem like that currently only EC maps are playable. I don’t even know why there are still these small maps in rotation for top tier
EC maps would be good if they had multiple airfield spawn points.
The battle royal style 16v16 on small maps has gotten stale, but flying low trying to multipath fox 3 missiles is the reason you die alot. You cannot play 14.0 like you can play 12.3 because splash damage will still kill you.
One thing that is annoying is trying to stock grind without spending money. No chaff and 1/3rd of the missiles compared to my enemies puts me at a very big disadvantage. I would love to see the spotting system only show map markers as well as a new game mode.
Honestly… I’ve been slingin it in arcade and it’s FAR better.
I’m simply avoiding top tier.
I play cold war machines, like BR 11 max 12
F4, things like that.
And it’s very nice :)
ARH is garbage
One of my ideas was an exclusively Fox-3 matchmaker (F-14’s excluded), and one without Fox-3’s. That way, you could still use the cool airframes without the 50km lobotomy sticks.
Also F14 should be included.
Or remove fox-3 from F14A
Me too brother, 100% agree.
There is a degree of efficient flying though - just rarely seen.
It is just an unengaging cesspit imo.
Just play what you like buddy and maybe play high tier occasionally when you feel like it.
Your not alone, but dont stress about it and stay with what you like or is reasonable with engaging gameplay.
I hope developers can create better AIR PVE. I don’t want to painfully grind the missiles of attack aircraft, which will only make people’s blood pressure swell. Some attack aircraft are in a very painful BR