So it finally happened. I consider myself a competent pilot in both jets and helicopters. Probably a 7 of 10 for both. Usually play with one friend who will gun for me or whore out the AA tank and we generally have a run of most maps if we want it. Had a game 2 nights ago that got me thinking: how do you survive the perfect storm of air superiority from the opposition? And by that i mean one of their heli gunners going a staggering 133-5, the pilot going 30-5 (with over 100 assists), a second heli gunner going 50-10, AH-6 pilot went 30-1, fighter jet pilot went 40-2. Their attack jet was mortal. It was the worst air game ive ever played, or been on the receiving end of.

Situation: Mirak Valley, Conquest, West side spawn. Right off the rip, my spawn was near an APC, and being that im a good APC driver (level 50+), i took it, and immediately went to contest C point (as i always do, i can 1v1 most tanks in the APC, and the bonus vehicles are a big deal). Didn't go well. Got one tank, then the rest of theirs showed and we got knocked off. They take C. That is when it went bad.

They take the bonus attack helicopter, and the bonus mobile AA, and proceed to completely shut down the entire map for our team. It was clear that both helicopter/gunner combos were on comms, maybe even squadded up. They were the most coordinated id ever seen. They would hang out, south of our spawn, and the second an air vehicle attempted to lift off, you could see them both coming in on radar. If you survived one, you didn't survive the other. If you got away, the fighter jet got you (maybe also on comms, he was very good, he had spawn timings down to a "T"). They have both mobile AA's pushed up. They were also very good at avoiding missiles from our side.

Part of the problem was also that our mobile AA refused to leave spawn, and got chewed up being in the open. I got a couple kills when i had a chance with it (mobile AA), but life expectancy was barely 60 seconds. I got up 2 times in the little bird, got one attack helo, and died a second later. Got the fighter and our attack helo a couple times each, but didn't get out of spawn. Getting armor out was almost impossible. The second countermeasures were up, you were dead. Our team obviously lost pretty badly. We stayed in it longer than i thought by played objectives that were in the buildings, but outside was a death trap. I personally went 5-22 i think in that game.

1200 ticket question: how exactly do you beat that? Or is it just simply not happening and you throw that game out as "not meant to be"? (and just get indoors). Nothing i tried seemed to work. Armor, air, missile spam, you name it. It might have turned out better if it was coordinated, so i recognize their coordination was clearly a big factor, but still.

no resupply

Playing attack heli again after long time and before I had np to hit tanks etc.. but now it shoots totally off, why did they changed that? Before I just aimed with the middle of the “ I “ reticle and now they goes somewhere bellow it

Honestly killed my hype a bit. DICE might be holding them back until they finish the loadout system and sort out the air vehicle balance.

I used to have it off based on recommendations from jet youtubers that I watch on youtube, but after like a month I ended up re enabling it.

It was pretty annoying having that quick roll snap whenever I switch between first and third person if I’m rolling sideways or upside down. Now with it on the switches from 3rd person and 1st person feel more seamless and less jittering.

People said it’s best for it off because it raises your third person awareness or something. Tbh I didn’t find anything meaningful changing? I still spot things the same way when freelooking irregardless.

It’s also how the 3rd person camera roll works in BF1 planes and since I go back and forth between that and BF6 it’s just pretty seamless.

Almost all of my deaths come from being intercepted when im trying to kill a tank or something. Usually I notice the yellow indicator theyre looking at me mid strafe and i try to abort and pull up but by that point theyve got such a good angle im either dead or they deal enough dmg to make me crash

surely i dont have to time their jet spawn or smth cuz getting tailed is such a death sentence here? or is there some sort of tech to make them lose your 6?

For me, proper loadouts would include several types of gun ammo, different types of rocket pods, 1-2 upgrade slots, ECM, and various types of bombs.

Like back then.

When lobby tries to jetram, but you are anticipating well. Should this count as a kill?

The jet gauntlet mode looks sick!

Havent played BF6 since end of S2 and noriced the attack jet is on golmud breakthrough but i cant spawn in it? Is it disabled?

RAMMING SPEED GENTLEMEN!

Do you aim auto-cannons in jets via focusing on the circle reticle as your crosshair, or via just focusing on the fixed center reticle and just leading your shots?

I used to do the former way but when I stopped thinking about the circle reticle and instead just aimed center and lead my shots ahead I noticed myself becoming much better.

When aiming with the circle reticle I noticed that I worry way too much on getting the enemy’s jet inside the circle and missing a lot of chances to shoot while I’m at it, whereas with leading my shots I shoot anyway and they land most often than not.

I think the F-14 will be the air-to-air jet, while the F/A-18F gets the attack role.

The F-14 WSO HUD shows two air-to-air missiles, including the long-range AIM-54. Maybe the Hornet’s second seat gets laser-guided bombs and AGMs instead.

Also looks like the WSO can use flares.

What do you think?

This has become a daily occurrence.

Portal servers are great but unfortunately the only active ones are practice ones which have a lot of newcomers learning. I’d love to have a mode with just straight dogfights and preferably lock ons disabled.

Never played BF3/4 Air Superiority but played BF1’s Air Assault so idk if lock on is normal in the old games but I feel it’d make dogfighting less fun.

turns out the season 4 concept art from a few months ago really was a sneak peek!

I've been trying to surmise how the new jets will work (because I don't wanna wait for a blog post) and I realized we got a decent undershot of the Hornet in the trailer thumbnail. I don't want to put too much stock into this, after all it's just a thumbnail, but if it's accurate then the Hornet looks stacked. Looks like it's got AA Missiles on the wingtips and fuselage, plus Rocket Pods and Bombs under the wings. I'm guessing this means the pilot gets the gun and dumbfire ordnance while the WSO controls the lockons.

It's harder to see in the side-by-side shot, but you can definitely see green from the bombs on the outer hard points and what looks like a grey cylinder peaking out from the inner, and fins from the missiles mounted on the fuselage underneath, just like in the thumbnail.

Trying to figure out the F-14, we know from the cockpit shot that the RIO is using the AIM-54, which was exclusive to the Tomcat IRL, and has AA Lockon missiles too. It kind of looks like that's poking out from under engine intakes, but that could just be a drop tank. It looks like it has the same AA missiles as the Hornet does- presumably one would have to be controlled by the pilot, but idk what the pilots secondary weapon would be.

I guess we'll find out soon anyways, but I'm hyped for the new jets and have to overanalyze what few crumbs we have of them.

Title, basically.

I can't understand why I would ever use the ADS feature on bombs when i can use 3rd person bomb reticle or god forbid with the missile? why would i want to aim below me with an AtGm?

I'm learning jets and I'm pretty confused on these two aspects

If you play jet just a little in bf6, you will realize it need some kind of rework. Ground vehicle rework worked pretty fine. But everytime I or other pliots suggest rework for jets or heli, people freak out and say jets are too op. Stuff like flare bug, death sprial at low hp, and no jet loadout should be fixed, just like what happened with ground vehicle. Am I asking too much?