I disagree. I think Starhawk gets flying right more then Warhawk ever did.
Flight in Starhawk is fine.
It's the dogfighting that's shit. At what range are swarms effective? You can't lock and release late like in Warhawk to ensure you get a hit, and good pilots like Sea Manky and Itstimetogoprime are really demonstrating how busted dogfighting is in this game.
You can outnumber a good pilot in the air, and because the weapons are shit, they will just fly loops around the stage. Over and under, repeat.
The flying in Warhawk was broken, plain and simple.
Air to Ground was broken, and ignoring the normal flight glitching; dogfighting in Warhawk was perfect.
They were too, powerful, had too many weapons, the chaff and health pickups regenerated too quickly, and hovermode was bullshit.[/QUOTE]
LOL @ Chaff complaint about Warhawk.
You had to select chaff, it wasn't instantly available, and it wasn't as braindead as Starhawk when it comes to scrubbing missiles. In Starhawk when you're competent in a Hawk you rarely EVER need to use chaff. You just mash the get out of lock free buttons. It's practically a Nintendo everybody feels good dogfighting game because missiles don't mean shit.
They need to fix the Hawk view when transformed like they did with Jetpacks. What skilled pilots do now is fly in, pitch up, transform so they're launched into the air, look down and fire a missile at a ground troop, easy kill, then transform and fly off before they hit the ground. It's every bit as annoying as the hovering A2G was in Warhawk.
Aircraft should be used for dogfighting and attacking fortifications. Not abusing ground troops.
I'd rather have a Warhawk HD Remix at this point. Get rid of the glitching, reduce the A2G effectiveness of hover mode by fixing the firing angle so that ground troops would have a good shot at it, reduce the hover speed and call it a day.
I just watched a pilot go 13/0, while outnumbered in the air because dogfighting in this game is complete shit. Adding A2G weapons that we've seen from the Hawk weapons glitch won't make the dogfighting better. It's just going to make being a ground pounder more of a pain in the ass.