The current situation with rocket ESFs farming infantry with faceroll rocketspam is awful but gimping ESFs or buffing AA to the point that we return to the no fly zone of beta just shifts the frustration from infantry to pilots, instead the old VS anti tank weapon would solve everybodies problems. For those that never used it, it was direct fire railgun/heavy laser type thing that could molest hovering aircraft and it was a hell of a lot more fun/satisfying that the current missile lock/flare/AB away tedium we currently have. Very difficult to down a fast moving vehicle (but not impossible) but would toast any unaware rocketspam statpadders assuming the infantry using it can still remember how to aim. Make the old VS Lancer a common pool HA AV weapon that does 0 damage to other infantry and then pilots will be forced to earn their kills and infantry will have a ton of good times pew pewing them out of the sky. You know it makes sense.
