u/nightmanifest

- Attack jet AGMs seemingly lose tracking mid flight. I’ll get a lock on, fire the missile, watch the entire time for impact, and the missile just veers off course and hits the ground like 20 feet away. No smoke, no projectile intercept system (which are both very obviously noticeable from the air), and the missile just completely misses. Is this the portable jammer? It seems quite strange and unlikely because when this happens to me it tends to be lone tanks camping in the middle of nowhere with no recon support nearby with a jammer.

- Solo flying is getting virtually impossible. I have only jet maps toggled in my search and like 90% of the games I get into are two PC people who just cheese the entire lobby, time aircraft spawns, and then 2v1 spawn kill you immediately, particularly on Liberation Peak. Why there are a max of just 2 aircraft per team is beyond me and I think certain maps need more. I also feel that similar to BF1/BFV there should be a generic “plane” slot and then you can choose between fighter or attack jet versus only having one of each, which leads me to my next point:

- People who steal aircraft from the other team, primarily on Golmud. Legitimately the past 6 games I have played on Golmud have had THREE v 1s where somehow the enemy team has both attack jets and a fighter. Once again, bottom of the barrel PC player behavior because three people NEED to play aircraft together to cheese a lobby, but a really discerning and pathetic trend nonetheless. I witnessed someone flying a transport helicopter to the enemy AJ spawn on golmud and just getting in our jet. Incredible map design.

How are either of the last two trends fun? I have noticed that pilot mains tend to be some of the most insufferable and miserable people you’d meet in life, and I’m really curious as to why that is. You’d think people would want to get better at air to air combat and thus give their enemies the opportunity to fight back, but clearly the trend of just cheesing lobbies is more fun than having a healthy community of people who love air to air combat. If you’re one of these miserable people, I’d love to 1v1, not because I think I’m an incredible pilot, but because I don’t think you’re as good as you think you are when you’re in a 2v1 or 3v1 situation, and it would be a much better use of time to actually get better at aerial combat versus taking the “I need to be carried” approach.

After finishing Maul, I couldn’t help but wonder if there could have been a world where the trio walks into the throne room as opposed to just Ashoka, everything could have been averted. Count Dooku explaining everything to Obi Wan on Geonosis times 100. Mace Windu goes to free the Chancellor, whacks the shit out of Dooku, has a profound conclusion to his arc from ToTJ, and they all then kick the shit out of Sidious. Does anyone feel differently? No chance that there is an alliance and they immediately start fighting because Maul still hates Obi-Wan so much?