I think you’re over reacting just a little bit for the drama of all.
To all good pilots, I salute your fine eyesight, cos whenever I bother to get in the air the majority of the time I don’t see other planes or ground targets… Mainly because of the lack of spotting in this game but it’s probably just my weaknesses as well.
I found that pilots are the best spotters in the game. I usually get a ton of spots just by one q-click. And pilots spots enemy plains like crasy to alert other pilots.
About PTFO - i usually guard rear flags from horses, bikes and taxi planes. Get a lot of highlits as flag defender.
He has some decent tips, but I disagree with some of his methods. That scissoring he was doing in the main video you showed, they were too tight for players using high FOV, they would/should see all of that, making him very easy to follow and kill. You would have to be really bad not to be able to follow that, or at least slow down a bit as he pulled himself further away from you.
I would like to show this video he made:
As he states, “Dillons are a bad idea” (A dillon is when you come to a stall, to force an overshoot from your enemy). He is quite simply wrong. Dillons work amazingly well on BF1, more so than any other BF title. I can show very fine examples of how Dillons work against ACTUAL dogfighters, in ACTUAL 1v1 situations.
He has some fair points though, so I don’t think it’s all bad. I also disagree with his “holding throttle”. While it’s mostly holding accelerator, you want to brake into angles, it can give you shots that simply holding accelerator can’t give you.
Bud I can barely see a thing myself. Even after you drop flares it helps out the ground crew fine, don’t help you much at all.
Sure I drop darts on people I do manage to see, and sometimes they’re spotted for me, but the vast majority of times it’s just dropping them where I’m confident the enemy will be - a flag is capping and you get to know where on the flag people tend to take cover, so drop 'em and hope…
… and it usually works.
The exception is hill camping snipers because they’ll glint at you, just keep your eye on where the glint came from, drop some darts and the kill will be there.
Planes though, you got to learn to spot them, much easier chasing someone you put a target on.
Jesus, you’re super insecure about people who say anything remotely negative about flying huh?
Bud I do it all, fly, tank, infantry. I play all classes and try to keep the score level so pretty much all equally - except Cavalry, hate horses.
So I’m no more insecure about flying than I would be about Medic or Support etc etc etc etc.
It’s just that I have an appreciation of what all *classes bring to the game and seeing as I’m the OP of this thread feel I have a right to correct the ignorant.
*Except hill camping snipers, they bring NOTHING! (Note I play Scout as an Assault with the pop-gun and flares)
I have 1/5th of your played game time but double the objective points that you do (so essentially helping win the game 10x more often than you are). You think planes are useful because you’re bad at the game; the only thing that they’re relevant for in regards to objectives is Bombers insta-killing tanks that may be preventing a push.
Planes are helpful depending on the pilot. Most pilots don’t help much with their plane, but when me and my wingman are in a scrim (team vs team) and basically basing the enemy team from force, that says it all. Picking off key enemies and helping to take out tanks, so our infantry can push is helpful and without the pilot’s help, it’ll make the push more difficult. Everything runs in a circle. Air helps ground and ground helps air, everything has a part in winning.