Planetside 2

It's nowhere close to 5secs, that's a gross exageration from someone who probably pilots ESF a lot and never used a dual burster. It might take 5secs if there's 5 dual burster MAXes sure, but solo it takes way longer. I went and spawned a Mosquito with no upgrade and then shot at it with Dual Burster, side shots(assume like tanks side is more armor than back but less than front so it's good for average dmg value), 100%accuracy obviously. It takes 24seconds to blow up the ESF, 2magazines and a bit more(but it's burning so you could just let it explode anyway).

Now might be that it does less dmg on friendlies as I believe it used to take less than 2 magazines to blow one up but could be from random other people's dmg. Still you don't kill them in one magazine and each magazine takes 10secs to empty then reload. Even assuming you get full back hits, you'd still need at least more than 10secs to destroy an ESF, not factoring flak armor and more importantly not factoring the fact you can't have 100%accuracy unless the ESF is being a really dumbfuck and doing stationary bombing for 10secs while you're firing at him. Also unlike tanks, you can't flank ESF, getting back shots is purely random and mostly happen when the ESF flies away so you can't finish him.

Unless the ESF is flying direct trajectories, your accuracy goes down dramatically because of the travel time of flak. Literally all you have to do is zigzag and flak can't really hit you reliably because you have to compensate a lot when firing at an ESF so if he's not going the same direction for more than 2secs you're not hitting(maybe on the turns a few shots here and there). If you fly straight though it's fairly easy to land almost 100% accuracy(first few shots to adjust and then everything will land until the ESF turns).

Yes the render issues suck dicks and yes a bunch of AA MAXes will force any ESF to get the fuck out before they can even fire especially if they use a direct approach, but the whole 5secs kill? Pure bullshit. You will kill an AA MAX 1vs1 with stationary rocket spam before you even lose half your health.

cinge_sl said:

Also you are complete shit if any kind of ground enemy comes, even a single infantry will kill you easily(with avg skill).

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Yeah I wish flak did a bit more dmg to infantry, shit half the time you can't even hit people even with the reticule dead on them because of the way the projectiles fire from your arm and have low accuracy to begin with. Best bet is to charge them and melee them, but the fucking MAX charge can't be cancelled for whatever fucked up reason(at least I haven't figured out but admit I haven't tried that often) so if they're close you charge but then run past them have to run in circle until charge is off and hope you're in melee range or try to driveby smack them which is near impossible with the melee shitty range/arc. And even when you punch them, it doesn't one shot, it does the same dmg as normal infantry melee so you need 2hits. Even if you manage to kill them generally you lost most of your health fighting ONE guy who didn't even use AV stuff, just normal guns. Oh and tanks rape you and you literally don't do any dmg to MBTs(maybe on backhits but it's more or less like firing a rifle at them).

It's very unrewarding to play AA unless you play lock on launchers and even then a good deal of your missiles get flared/avoided and you need at least 2 or dmg from other people. At the same time, a few AAs and you don't see a single ESF around at all because it's fairly easy to deny airspace due to rendering issues.

Yeah totally agree that the xp rewards aren't well done, infantry shouldn't give that much especially when you're in a HE tank or a Zephyr Lib, vehicles should give a fuckton more considering how annoying it is to take them out as infantry or even in other vehicles and partial dmg should be rewarded as AA sucks otherwise. But render should also be fixed so air can actually see what's firing at them.

As for your issues, don't know if it's purely a MAX it shouldn't be able to kill your ESF quickly even if he's firing AV rounds instead of Flak or something. Could be a hacker even though I don't know about hacks increasing damage, but maybe there's some. Maybe someone who didn't render fired a rocket at you(not a lock on) or maybe a tank hit you with a shell? I know I got lucky once and hit an ESF from like 500m with a tank shot and it blew up in one hit even though it had like 80% health. I guess death log would tell you that though so yeah don't know. Definitely can't win 1vs1 against an ESF though, best case you charge into a building when he's firing rockets and then unload more flak into him and force him to run, most likely can't finish him though and then he repairs his ESF while you can't repair yourself and get fucked 1min later ^^.

Current system for AA vs ESF kinda sucks though, for both sides. AA don't get xp for the air dominance they assure and ESF are force dot fuck off as soon as some AA come because they can't do shit about it due to render issues. So both sides lose and it's unfun for everyone.