I literally don't know how you high tier air players stay sane playing this game.

Just as a preface, I'm not someone who just paid for the Su-33 or started playing last week, and i'm also not saying "hurr game sux gaijin bad" either.

4500 hours, top tier in pretty much every ground and naval nation except a couple.

In air, I'm up to 10.3 with russia, japan, germany and usa. Every other nation is between 5.0-7.0

How do players at high tier not lose their minds all the damn time?

Take off, fly for 6 minutes, browse tiktok or reddit whilst you fly to battle, finally get there, enter a 30 second scuffle with everyone else, get hit straight away, die, get 1000rp for 7 minutes of 'gameplay' (with a premium account, albeit tech tree plane), rinse and repeat. It's absolute heaven when I see "air spawns" on the map loading screen.

either that or somehow survive, your team steamrolls the enemy, and we spend the next 20 minutes waiting for one plane to leave his airfield while we go around in circles fighting for who can hit the next howitzer before they're all gone.

Even when I feel like I do have a good game, it feels sort of empty. Just had a Mig21 game for germany, somehow got 2 kills, we still lost but managed to get 6500rp which I suppose isn't bad. It just feels like for every 6500rp game you can pull, there's 10 games before it where you just get annihilated straight away.

I know a lot of this is more than likely SkiLL iSsUe but it just feels like the grind is so fuckin intense. At least in ground, you can cap objectives, repair allies, drop arty, scout enemies, shoot down planes, use a heli or whatever. Air just feels like "kill everyone in this crazy clusterfuck of a team deathmatch or get nothing" oh and you're straight back to the hanger with no second chance.

it's not just the lack of things to do, it feels like you need 400 sets of eyes just to avoid dying. You try and focus on getting a kill for 20 seconds, and bang, there's a missile on your tail. Check behind you and move to deny an enemy a good attacking opportunity and the guy you're trying to take down is long gone.

I'm not shitting on the game mode, obviously loads of people enjoy it, but shit, how do you people who enjoy it stay sane and not be in a perpetual state of losing your mind? I'm kinda dreading getting near 12.0.

I saw a post on the forums in August, where a user made a poll for Air Realistic EC, it sounds a lot like what I think air should be like to make it more fun. 97% of users on the poll voted for it, got passed to devs, idk if anything else game of it.

Anyway, it's not a rant or saying "omg game fuxin sux", I just wonder if any others out there feel like this when it comes to air battles?

And yes, i've tried high tier in arcade and it was god awful.