I’m not entirely sure, but I’ve never noticed vehicle spawns very quickly. Certainly whenever I’ve waited for a vehicle after just losing one (not often, I swear!) it feels a long time.
Transport vehicles (armoured cars and motorcycles) are different. You have to ‘spawn’ them by standing near their spawn point (not on it or they won’t spawn… very annoying when someone else stands on the spot) but you can spawn them again as soon as they are destroyed.
It definitely isn’t that way for planes, tanks and cavalry.
OK so this is what I know about vehicle respawn. I have and still do play a lot of tanks and calvary. Planes i dont play much but im pretty sure planes respawn at the same rate as tanks and calvary. They are all vehicles with respawn circles on the maps.
Conquest games are easy to track because they have a timer that you can watch while you’re waiting in the repawn screen. Wanna go to the bathroom? This could be a good time because you know you’ll have a good two minutes of waiting for the next tank to show. You should try to get back about 30 to 15 seconds early and start hitting X like mad to make sure you beat anybody else that might also be trying to click your spawn. And sometimes they do seem to respawn a few seconds early, like 10 seconds maybe, not sure what is going on when that seems to happen.
Operations doesn’t have a handy on screen timer to watch, but I believe the two minute timer there applies as well. That’s what it feels like anyways. However in ops, right after a sector is taken I think the vehicles may sometimes respawn quicker.
I can’t recall the last attack plane to go 60-2 when playing BF1 on pc.
It would have to be one of the very top pilots to do that or really bad worse than 0 pilots on the other side mixed with little to no aa and groundfire.
It depends. My best round as a pilot was 75-0 and we lost.
I’ve noticed that it is often best to ignore the air power if you are playing to win. I think what it comes down to is not wasting too many resources for too little of a result.
Ha ha yup I’ll do the same thing sometimes just for revenge, but especially if I’m on an objective and the pilot really seems to be making a difference like he comes in and he slaughters most of your team and in your death cam, you watch two or three squads of the enemy team roll in and quickly mop up any survivors and flip your objective. That pilot needs to be dealt with or maybe its time to switch teams?
The really good bomber pilots fly and bomb really high up from the flight ceiling. I’ve not found a good way to deal with those guys from the ground and generally don’t try to mess with them.
LMGs. The MG1917 has a massive range and can at least keep them at bay if not take them down. You just have to practice your target leading. They are enormous and easy to shoot.
Yes I’m a fan of using the lmgs on planes. Its just when the planes are up high you wont get much help from AA fire because of its limited range. So, its harder to knock them down unless you have multiple lmgs firing or maybe a friendly pilot helping.
I tend to spawn a support and go to an AA. I use the LMG until they are in AA range. If they don’t come within AA range then they aren’t going to be able to bomb anyone near me anyway and they are neutralised.
shrug I know people don’t agree with me on this. I guess I find shooting down planes more fun than others ;+)
Actually im the same way. Even if I don’t kill them I know I’m enough of a distraction where their not killing anyone. I’ve seen more than a few ppl just quit because they get killed a few times!
I did it tonight during a round of Op’s on Galicia. 7 heavy bombers, 2 attack planes, an assault truck, and 5 enemies on the ground. I was laughing the whole time!
I don’t think you’re alone in your feelings about the aa rocket. I often feel like I’m the only one talking about how good they are. Maybe my love for the aa rocket is because I spent so much time with a heavy tank trying to shoot down planes. I was always taking potshots’s at planes with the Canon. It is a one shot kill but you have to hit them directly so I got pretty good at leading them with the canon and picking the moment to fire. I ended up shooting down a lot of planes with the tank canon.
During my time as a heavy tanker, the tank hunter attack plane was my worst nemesis. There was basically nothing I could do about a good tank hunter attack plane. I could occasionally shoot them down with my Canon but they usually ended up destroying me. A good tank hunter attack plan could basically destroy me off the field to where I didn’t want to spawn a tank anymore. I started thinking about a way to get revenge. I am a terrible pilot so that was not an option for me. So I ended up trying aa rockets. When a tank hunter attack plane pestered me so bad and destroyed my tank a couple of times, I would respawn as assault with aa rockets and try to get them.
When I started using the aa rockets I was amazed to find out that they explode in general proximity to the plane and they were much, much easier than the heavy tank canon to hit with. You don’t need a direct hit, you just need to get kind of close. But you needed to score more than one hit to bring the plane down. Anyways maybe I’m just an odd duck with my love for the aa rocket. I don’t see that many players using them or hear many people even talking about them as a plane counter but they sure do seem useful to me.
Just the QF 1 AA gun! I did breakout my M1917 when I was helping push the objectives and so I could keep the planes at bay. I’ve had rounds where I destroyed 15 vehicles a few times. Ppl think the QF 1AA only damages planes but it takes every thing out. Plus I always keep my repair tool handy if pilots do take me and the AA out. Ppl just forget about the gun when it’s destroyed and than that’s when I surprise them! I’ve gotten alot of fan mail over the years from taking out so many ppl with the QF 1 AA gun. Hehe
I just have to lol about you shooting down airplanes in the tank because I have tried so many freaking times to do that and I just can’t do it! I swear I lead them just right and it misses every time. I’d even say it seems to go right through the plane. The only time I’ve ever downed a plane in a tank was by a total freak accident. I Wasn’t even aiming at a plane but a low flyer came buzzing by and flew right into my shot! lol. What a surprise. At the time, I didn’t even know it was possible to shoot airplanes with the cannon, but since I know it is possible, I keep trying and failing…ugh! Guess I’ll keep at it.
I’ll also give AA rockets another try. Next time I play Monte Grappa, I’ll give it a go. I’ll let you know how it goes.
One thing about reading these forums is it makes me realize what a clown I am at this game. I’m probably the worst player here but I love this game so I don’t really care. I’m just a BF1 fool.
