What they should do is give more defensive weapons to those who prefer ground combat. Against a skilled pilot, you were pretty much defenseless in warhawk, not to mention the long wait times and very few spawn points of the only weapon that could take out a Warhawk (an rpg).

Warhawks are too easy to zip around in and kill ground people with, and being a soldier on the ground against a Warhawk is extremely unbalanced and unfair. I don't think they should change the flight controls either, but they NEED to make soldiers a dangerous force to f*ck with. Maybe have each soldier have an ability (that they start out with, not that they pick up) to quickly deploy an emp and a forcefield that covers a certain radius, and the forcefield should last a LONG time or forever, but can only defend against warhawks, other people in things like jeeps and tanks can still damage the soldiers. The EMP thing would disable a warhawk in very close range of the solider and will make it immobile for a few seconds and start to fall out of the sky, that way people in warhawks don't get to f*ck with the soldiers so much.

I never felt like I was powerless against a warhawk. I Dunno about the last expansion pack (never got it) but it felt pretty balanced to me up to that. The AK, sniper rifle, and of course turrets were always good ways to take out a plane.

Really those skilled pilots could get pretty cocky at times, arrogance is a downfall lol.

But I guess in the spirit of fairness I was a pilot first and foremost. I just don't believe in dumbing down controls to "level the field".

Now increasing options is always a great thing so I couldn't disagree with having more defensive options at your disposal as long as it didn't ruin balance.

TL;DR= Disagree that soldiers were powerless, agree more options are a good thing as long as you don't ruin balance.

The AK47 didn't do sh*t against the Warhawks and the sniper rifles aren't really all that easy to aim at close range (which is what I'm talking about here. Turrets are good at taking them out yeah, but I'm not talking about being in the area of weapons, I'm talking about making your way across the battlefield without any vehicles or rocket launchers. If all you have is an AK47, a pistol, and a grenade out there, you're f*cked, and there's no getting around that.

No vehicles out in the open, no cover to find out in the open, no rocket launchers out in the open, just a damn airplane hovering above you laughing at how he could easily take you out with one missle and even if that soldier could get lucky enough and do some serious damage with an AK, all the Warhawk would have to do is fly away at super speeds, get the nearest health boost (which only takes about 10 seconds), come back and torment, then eventually kill the soldier on the ground.

Soldiers, were completely powerless if they had no cover, no rpg, no grenades, no sniper rifle, or no vehicles.

Now that I think about it, they should alter the controls of planes very slightly. Make it a little bit slower to switch from hover mode to flight mode and take off. Not too much, but like maybe 2 or 3 seconds longer.