Airplanes is a joke now, lol

With very little success from either. Those Bursters have proxy charges and their accuracy horrible after 1000 meters, ehnce why they come with proxy charges against air. Theoretically the flak cieling has its purpose then. I understand where you come from on this, but aircraft have to be really far off airspace to get caught up in AA MAX fire from another.

Then why give ESFs rocketpods at all?

Isn't the patch next week on Tuesday? Are you guys practicing for then or something?

Composite armor is already changed.

Oh, right... keep forgetting this is still BETA! What was I thinking... ok, moving along...

since then were ESF so "stupid" to stay in a area wher einfantry is shooting at you? in the end 18flak and 12% are NOT that much of a change.

Rocketpods are only "nerfed" by reducing their inner splash range .. so stop complaining and flight like a fighter .. kill other fighters in 600m+ fly while dogfighting.

You clearly dont know much about multirole aircraft

There are other counters. You're just too lazy to use them

Pick off stragglers. There's supposedly more than just bases - after all that's what I keep getting told.

"LOOK AT THOSE HUGE MAPS O M F G NO OTHER GAME HAZ."

Man all the tears from rocket pod k:d farmers are delicious. Nom nom, feed me your tears.

Really? Well I fired up game, game downloaded a patch, launcher provides no patch notes so I don't know whats changed. I jump in a Max and own up the skies like some kind of ninja rambo, I assume given this must be new because otherwise why was there so very many buff aa threads on the forums. Plus the last I heard of changes being made to the game it was the aa/ground balance patch.

So maybe it came early, maybe its still to come, neither of us really know for sure because of a stunning lack of patch notes from SOE. What we can say for sure is there has been stealth changes to flak armour and who knows what else. So best case is this was indeed the air/ground balance patch and they went to far. Worst case is you are right and this isn't the patch, perhaps there are other stealth changes in this patch but the real patch is still coming next week which will make it even worse for aircraft. Whoop-dee-doo!

This is really annoying. Just tried logged in and decided to help my team take down an outpost. As I fly up to the outpost, nothing renders and I get blasted out of the sky by an AA max, before he even loaded. I have composite armor at max to, sure am glad I wasted all those certs, with no option for recerting from sony..

Before anyone says get a better pc. I have an OC i7,16gigs of ram,SSD hd, 560ti oc....

If you pull an AA MAX before enemy air gets in the area, you can see what's wrong with the situation. You can take it down before the enemy air can turn around and leave, let alone get close enough to do anything to you. The real problem is that before you simultaneously had a situation where if you had nobody already in an AA MAX, air was going to dominate because it was already in range, but if you had AA MAXes already in the area, air stood no chance, even from 800m+ in the air, because it wasn't close enough to do the OP damage.

It's basically the shotgun issue all over again: shotguns will win every fight at close range, but lose every fight at any other range. People screamed OP because they saw they died a lot (and quickly) to shotguns at close range, but they never knew the enemy they killed at 30m+ had a shotgun because the enemy couldn't get close enough to fire.

Don't worry guys, you can still hit 2 buttons and win against.....EVERYTHING.

God, do I so enjoy making you "Leet" pilots rage when you get sniped by my VG.

I feed on your tears!

Remember, you should be happy you don't have to go back to the WG to pull your vehicle like I do when my empire doesn't have the Tech Plant.

Silly. You mean to tell me 800 years in the future we "forget" to give fighters versatility via ground attack options that make them a deadly and effective weapon of war. The dedicated bomber is an outdated concept even by today's standards, and most ground attacks are carried out by fighters and drones.. Air POWER is supposed to be just that. POWERFUL. If it is not going to be so, take it the hell out of the game. It is pointless to even have if it serves as nothing more than a novelty.

Their bursters is precise enough for planes but suck hard to hit infantry at range. Furthermore the damage you do with bursters against Infantry is laughable if you have equipped just 1xAA, you get decimated as an AA MAX and not even the shotgun is always an insurance in close combat. People know how to handle this and jump around you. Sometimes I think the shotgun is bugged, not shotty isnt working always for me especially when you hit faster your mouse button....need to check my mouse lol.

Just some minutes ago I did fight against a Scythe, I could damage him but not kill. If I would not have any cover in form of buildings I would be just plain dead, since their rockets hit hard and there is splash damage you cant avoid always. If they get damage more than just half their HP they just run, sometimes you get them if they feel secure in a group or are just unexpirienced pilots. MAXEs are not really heavy infantry units like in PS1, they lack armor and go down fast. Thats why MAXEs are one of the least played classes.

The patch is coming Tuesday. They always put up the notes on patch day.

I'm trying to imagine a worse weapon for AI work than the burster, but I'm drawing a blank. Help me out here, what weapon is worse at killing infantry than a burster?

Uh don't these changes listed here not go into affect until next week? I'm not seeing upgraded flak armor, a new launcher,current G2A launcher still dumbfires for now. Surprised at the nerf of the composite armor though, no warning on that

Walker 30 cal.

There was most definitely a patch today.