How could I possibly be losing the argument when I even proved that your prime example for balance (the Wirbelwind) was confirmed bugged by the developers despite your insistence otherwise.
As for pilots dominating constantly, it’s not only pilots getting 80+ kills in Breakthrough servers (and again Breakthrough is notoriously spammy for bombers due to high player density on objectives). As I also explained there are many top pilots that spend their entire playing sessions loading in to specific maps, and yes Breakthrough Hamada is at the top of that list. It is for me too, because if I am on the British side I can get hundreds of kills, permitting that the game goes on long enough (it rarely does).
Your basic argument then is that we should start balancing things in game to the lowest common denominator, basically the basic scrub. This is no way to balance SPAAs, or AA. This is as stupid an argument as balancing something in game to the no.1 player in the world for that given class, an argument I have NOT explicitly made, so I dispute the accusation.
You started off by denying that your inability to kill the Stuka could possibly be partly dependent on your skill level, positioning, etc. And now you have evolved your position into some democratic crusade seeking balance for the masses and therefore dollars for EA. Yeah duh the the development team’s top priority is player retention, but there are simply so few players that want to play SPAA or sit in spawn all game long on an AA that your own argument is relatively redundant by its own mass criteria. As I said before many features in this game rely on other skilled players to counter skilled players.
I personally hate bombers, honestly I would be happy if they weren’t in the game, but I would say that as they often counter me, therefore I take it upon myself to often counter them. If nobody in your server is bothering to do so, either do so yourself, or find another server.
The SPAA IS capable, it’s you that’s seemingly incapable of killing planes with it, nor do you seem interested in actually learning how to improve sufficiently in order to combat pilots that have inevitably practiced and died many times learning what not to do if they want to stay alive.
You don’t simply get an easy mode because pilots hurt your feelings and make you rage to the point you record your gameplay and have to come and broadcast to public forums simply how poor a player you are, rather than how underpowered they are. For someone that calls themselves a designer, you aren’t very forensic, or willing to accept constructive criticism considering how many different people have pointed out flaws in your gameplay/ positioning, etc. Still you prefer to deflect to EA share value, as if people out there really want an unbalanced game, and as if there aren’t plenty casuals that want to play planes every now and then without getting instashredded by a sweaty nerd sat in spawn on an AA all game long.
What?! I think you completely misread what I said.
This guy was joking about 200+ kills, I think you know that right? And I said the same thing as you, I said I wouldn’t ask for them to receive some love… How are we even disagreeing here?!
85+ kills doesn’t mean they’re dominating when in breakthrough infantry always get that many kills, and typically with higher scores, it’s breakthrough, people break 100 because games can go on for so long and player density is high. Also as I said before there are many pilot mains that specifically load in on specific maps, and then rejoin to play those maps when they are done.
I never once disputed that player retention isn’t a no. 1 priority for devs.
I did however dispute that it is in their balance philosophy to balance things around your criteria, which I have been proved CORRECT about with the simple fact your example of perfect balance (Wirbelwind) was confirmed to be bugged by them. In fact it is No. 3 on their priority list to be fixed next patch: “The Flakpanzer AA is too powerful against aircraft”. This is in their own words, and on their quality of life tracker which contains only the highest priority issues. I am sorry but you are wrong, and that’s a fact, not an opinion, no matter how much you dislike my attitude towards your opinion.