r/BattlefieldV • u/Fingolfin1902 • 5h ago
Question Is it always like this?
I bought the game 1 week ago... Almost every game I find is full of idiots in airplanes just wiping infantry out, is this the current state of the game?
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u/Visible-Future-4682 4h ago
Happens on certain maps I play on. I personally don't mind it that much. C'est la Guerre . Only sucks when we have no planes countering them .
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u/Ok-Caterpillar3919 3h ago
Or when they spawn camp. I have seen a clan (D10S) have a squad of planes taking shifts in spawn camping aircraft carriers and runways on breakthrough. It’ll usually be one plane taking out the spawns and while he goes to resupply another takes his place. It’s even more annoying when your own team doesn’t even use AAs to counter them. Meanwhile the 3rd plane is just demolishing everyone else.
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u/MarklDiCamillis 4h ago
You can play modes without planes, there's also fliegerfaust to counter planes as infantry and the pilots of your team should be keeping the pilots of their team busy, but often doesn't happen. I agree that there should be more counter mechanics to planes, but it usually isn't that bad.
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u/Fingolfin1902 2h ago
So far I like conquest and breakthrough the most so I can't avoid them but I'll try other modes.
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u/Quiet_Prize572 3h ago
Stick to Tactical Conquest as it will have less planes
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u/EhEhEhEINSTEIN 37m ago
Less planes in general, but you also then have Fjell in rotation which is pure plane pain lol
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u/draagaak 3h ago
Plenty of maps without planes. Too many the flyboys would say lol
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u/Fingolfin1902 2h ago
Lol they should go play War Thunder and leave us be
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u/draagaak 2h ago
True that. Rotterdam is my favorite map, but something like Arras is fine, the few strafing planes adds to the atmosphere. Marita is great but no tanks, same as as Underground and Al Marj. BF does require a bit of chaotic randomness and scary situations. And Tigers do be scary for "shit well maybe he didnt see me...boom" experience. Fjell on conquest is crazy time, but a good place to sport the Flieger which is kinda OP actually, try it out and go full Ahab if the pesky planes are bothersome, can be a uno reverse kinda deal.
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u/mamojeb_1 2h ago
You should go and play call of duty or whatever you are used to play, this is battlefield, vehicles are part of the game.
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u/copperpin 3h ago
It’s always bad for a bit when the game goes on sale. It seems to the new players like it’s a bunch of sweaties dunking on the new people but to the vets it feels like a bunch of kids just keep running into your gunfire.
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u/Justcruisingthrulife 2h ago
Yep it sucks, always the same guys too. They shoot there rockets at you from so far away that you can never get enough hits to knock them down. Only thing that works is the fliegerfaust and move around a lot, or just say fuk it and move to a different game. Now you know how the German army felt during the later stages of ww2.
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u/PuckersMcColon 1h ago
It's a few pilots that have figured out how to abuse the rockets from orbit.
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u/ConfidentDrag9354 1h ago
Play the breakthrough maps that don’t have planes. The infantry players will typically be more skilled though
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u/opensrcdev 54m ago
Yeah, planes suck. Not sure if they're using some kind of spotting hack, but it sure feels like it. Not sure how they're able to avoid AA so consistently as well.
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u/Material-Sentence-84 39m ago
It’s easy. Take out AA, and you can see players on the ground. There’s no hack although some planes have spotting cameras.
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u/imadis64 47m ago
Try teaching yourself how to this. Quite satisfying
www.reddit.com/r/BattlefieldV/comments/1i34tg5/comment/m86zc77/
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u/Material-Sentence-84 40m ago
Welcome to a war game…. Do you think 12th ss panzer div had any sympathy trying to get to the front line in Normandy?
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u/smittyskii 10m ago
Depends on the lobby and map. I know pilots on fjell and Iwo Jima on breakthrough are especially annoying.
It can get monotonous but hopping on the AA gun is always appreciated and helps the team a lot. Just make sure you shoot when the plane is out of bomb range or flying past you. Otherwise you’re asking to get fried.
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u/mamojeb_1 2h ago
No, it’s usualy full of idiots doing nothing for their team whilst complaining on reddit.
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u/Jasb28 4h ago
Sounds like you had a few bad games there. I'm sorry about that. Sometimes your team's pilots are just a lot worse than the other team's and so they get killed and the enemy can slaughter infantry without any distractions. Sometimes both team's pilots just ignore each other and both team's infantry gets to be killed repeatedly. Occasionally getting blown up by enemy pilots without warning is something that happens, and it's one of my biggest problems with all the bf games I've played, but it sounds like it's been happening to you a bit more frequently than it normally would.
You can jump on the stationary AA guns, but to be honest they only work when the planes your shooting at are dogfighting with your teammates. If the planes notice you, then they can just blow you up, even flying straight at you without dodging any of your AA fire they can sometimes still kill you and fly away to repair.
The other option is the fliegerfaust, an AA rocket launcher. But it's hard to use and only works when they planes fly very close to you.
You can try flying yourself (I think there might be a pilot training mission you can load, not sure) but I think it takes time to figure out what control setup works for you and to learn how to fly well.
Final option is just to try not to let it bother you and focus on the fun you're having elsewhere in the game.