Remember those good ol' days before 1.2? Where dogfighting meant chasing another jet around the map, trying to gun him down? Man, that was so much fun. You could go any server with a jet map, start flying, and have a real dogfight with someone. With some luck you might met a similarly skilled pilot and you could spend half the round chasing each other. Lots of pilots actually knew what they were doing, checking their rear, getting both bombs on right on the turret of an enemy tank, and doing some good maneauvering.
Now compare that to aviation in BF2 post 1.2:
'Dogfights' between average players last about 20 seconds. People don't have a f*cking clue what they're doing, incapable of basic things such as landing, using guns, bombing within 15 meters of their target, or actually doing something else than constantly looping to lose their opponent. And of course, dogfights now are purely missles, and missles only. To top it all off, one jet has become supreme to everything else, the almighty J-10. The majority of the time that you're flying a J-10, your opponent will be in an F-35b, the jet most succeptable to missles. Now maps like Wake Island, Dragon Valley, or Dalian Plant have become a game of 'kill as many unlucky soldiers on the carrier with my jet that cannot get shot down by 99% of all pilots'.
Any skill that pilots had before 1.2 seems to have dissapeared since then. As I said before, looping endlessly is all that people do to shake a jet. Oh, a few clever ones might have figured out that flying high gives them a speed boost. yay. They never check their six anymore either. Nor do they ever use bomb mode while flying, as why would you want to go away from your almighty missles? I can simply fly behind an enemy jet for the entire round, and they'd never notice.
And of course, the AA is still useless as ever. But, as was to be expected, pilots still get shot down regularly and call the AA overpowered. Do I need to explain this? I sure hope not.
Surely all the skill that was present before 1.2 can't have just dissapeared?
What the hell has happened to aviation since 1.2?!
ANOTHER COMMON MISCONCEPTION: THE MiG-29 AND THE F-18 ARE BALANCED.
NEIN. The MiG turns faster than the f-18, and in a fight between SKILLED pilots, the MiG pilot will win. Sure, the F-18 can dodge missles, but a good pilot in a MiG WON'T NEED TO
Now compare that to aviation in BF2 post 1.2:
'Dogfights' between average players last about 20 seconds. People don't have a f*cking clue what they're doing, incapable of basic things such as landing, using guns, bombing within 15 meters of their target, or actually doing something else than constantly looping to lose their opponent. And of course, dogfights now are purely missles, and missles only. To top it all off, one jet has become supreme to everything else, the almighty J-10. The majority of the time that you're flying a J-10, your opponent will be in an F-35b, the jet most succeptable to missles. Now maps like Wake Island, Dragon Valley, or Dalian Plant have become a game of 'kill as many unlucky soldiers on the carrier with my jet that cannot get shot down by 99% of all pilots'.
Any skill that pilots had before 1.2 seems to have dissapeared since then. As I said before, looping endlessly is all that people do to shake a jet. Oh, a few clever ones might have figured out that flying high gives them a speed boost. yay. They never check their six anymore either. Nor do they ever use bomb mode while flying, as why would you want to go away from your almighty missles? I can simply fly behind an enemy jet for the entire round, and they'd never notice.
And of course, the AA is still useless as ever. But, as was to be expected, pilots still get shot down regularly and call the AA overpowered. Do I need to explain this? I sure hope not.
Surely all the skill that was present before 1.2 can't have just dissapeared?
What the hell has happened to aviation since 1.2?!
ANOTHER COMMON MISCONCEPTION: THE MiG-29 AND THE F-18 ARE BALANCED.
NEIN. The MiG turns faster than the f-18, and in a fight between SKILLED pilots, the MiG pilot will win. Sure, the F-18 can dodge missles, but a good pilot in a MiG WON'T NEED TO
Last edited by SargeV1.4 (2006-07-19 11:21:01)
