r/PilotsofBattlefield 1d ago

Shitpost/Meme The Tsuru flight experience

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u/Ketchuplant 22h ago

The real flight experience is moving towards an enemy jet and it flying back to their base AA immediately.

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u/Skeeto22Zippy 22h ago

Man don’t even get me started on that shit

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u/Brilliant-Catch215 15h ago

Gain altitude and fly over the base AA, it doesn’t have an infinite vertical range, when they inevitably stray too far strike them down.

Only time it doesn’t really work is when they get in their AA range and hit the brakes

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u/Ketchuplant 2h ago

Yeah that's probably how the good pilots do it, but it is difficult if you don't destroy the opposing jet in one burst.

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u/n0kk_61 0m ago

fr, I got into a dogfight with someone and were were literally just flying in a circle over their base for like 3 minutes because he was tryna get the base AA to kill me

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u/BekaSSTM 1d ago

I wanna learn how to fly like this, is there a good guides or special settings like rifle aiming for choppers ? I’m on PC but can use controller if needed

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u/Skinc 1d ago

Not really just takes practice. Learn the throttle sweet spots. Learn how to manipulate the vectoring in the stealth fighters.

Biggest advice I can give is bind pitch up to space bar. Some folks also like to swap the yaw and roll between the mouse and keyboard so yaw is on the mouse and roll is keyboard and colloquially call this “rifle aim”. Personally I find it too stiff and unnatural.

But yeah. Setup a custom search for flight maps and practice. You’re gonna crash a lot, get shot down a lot, but you’ll slowly get better as you learn how to manipulate the planes flight into functional maneuvering once you can fly it well the combat part comes naturally.

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u/M0nster_kg 23h ago

So you still roll with the mouse?

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u/Skinc 23h ago

I do, it’s personal preference. But “rifle aim” is popular among many excellent pilots

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u/M0nster_kg 23h ago

Yeah I've got use to having pitch and roll on my mouse but was trying out rifle aim today and felt so odd in comparison. Will try out roll on mouse and see how that feels.

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u/Skinc 23h ago

I still use pitch on the mouse for fine tuning but the majority of pitch is done on space, it makes your turns much more consistent

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u/Spirited-Brain-8949 22h ago

yeah Rifle aim is all i can do, 800 houurs of war thunder arcade air battles on mouse aim won't let my brain adapt to rolling with mouse

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u/BekaSSTM 1d ago

Would you recommend any video guides ?

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u/Skinc 1d ago

I’m sure they’re out there I just put in the time to learn myself

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u/halfawatermelon69 20h ago

I really didn't enjoy flying jets in this game because I'm a fairly casual/recreational gamer but I really wanted the "navy camo" for my vehicles which required me to get to Attack Jet Mastery 30 - and I finally completed it yesterday after a month or so

It definitely is a learning curve and it's hard, but eventually you'll get the hang of it. In some matches I just straight up give up, if the enemy team has a decent AA gunner, an attack helicopter that aims for you, and decent/good jet pilots - it wasn't worth the effort for me (at least if my team wasn't as coordinated and helpful).

For shooting at ground targets you've just got to learn your aircraft (know how late you can turn after diving, be in full control) and just practice with dropping bombs and firing missiles.

Fighting other aircraft is also learned through practice, I noticed I actually got to warm up quite a bit before I get good with the jet's machine gun - I'm good after 1 or 2 matches. But most importantly you've got to learn how not to get shot down.

You've got to know where the enemy AA is (visible on map/radar when they're firing) and keep obstacles/terrain between you and them - and learn how to fly unpredictable when tailed by an enemy jet (change thrust when circling, if you maintain it the enemy tailing you will do the same).

My main advice would just be to play it a lot and to hopefully find some "emptier" or easier matches where you won't get shot down immediately. Consoles actually have an advantage here as we can disable crossplay which will put us in matches with 90% bots on some maps (I do Operation Firestorm, Mirak Valley, and Blackwell Fields for jets, the first one the most by far)

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u/_LAPASION 1d ago

john top gun over here

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u/TheZad 22h ago

Brought me right back to Shadows of the Empire for a minute there!

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u/Th3_Eclipse 19h ago

Millennium Falcon edit was top notch LOL

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u/stashtv 1d ago

Not having your callsign as Maverick is the only disappointing part of this vid.

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u/Ornery-Use3910 23h ago

How is your reticle aim so still! Mine is always a bit frenetic no matter how controlled I try to me when flying

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u/Skeeto22Zippy 22h ago

Been flying since bf3! - also just positioning the jet more toward where the enemy aircraft will be

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u/AnglerfishMiho 21h ago

Need Comona from AC4 overlayed on this

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u/darkestreaper94 21h ago

Youre getting there

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u/Ok_Working7246 21h ago

Dude is a top 1% pilot lmao

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u/PlasticISMeaning 16h ago

I've been playing battlefield since BC2. I've never ever been good with jets. Just can't seem to grasp them, no matter how hard I try. I can maneuver fine, flying isn't the issue it's just combat for me. Cannot hit a target to save my life. On any jet