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  • F-35 is one of the most agile jets ever made. So of course, Dice has to make it a slow turning, piece of shit.

  • @strikerk No it's not. Where'd you get that from>

    The F35A, the lightest of all the variations; is only as agile if not a tiny bit more than the F16.

    Some reports state that it can not outmaneuver a 4th gen Russian fighter. Like, the SU-35.

  • F-25 = HAVOC

  • bf3 settings editor : then you can adjust the hover button to something else

  • Glad Dice is fixing the F35 cuz it realy is worthless right now...

  • the funny thing is that the f-35 is one of the latest and best planes the US has. and the SU-35 is old and low tech by comparison. but in this game the SU is much better

  • Actually I found out that the circle with the dot inside, which is suppose to be where your bullets will hit, is much more accurate then the SU-35's :)

  • WHAT BUTTON FO I PUSH TO MAKE THE JET HOVVER

  • Not that I am the greatest pilot out there (in games, LOL) however, I'd say that the F35 is pretty darn good at turning. Given you bleed the speed accordingly followed by pushing the nose up, followed by turning. Give it a go, is all I'd say

  • amazing f-35 pilot vs amazing su-37 pilot = equal battle

    im a fairly adept f-35 pilot the only way i get shot down is when i dont have air radar and i dont know the enemy was coming

  • @MajSobbero no way, the flanker will destroy the f35 99 times out of 100, if the f35 gets behind you you just turn around and your on the f35's tail, if they stop you can swoop around and take them out

  • @aec0691 well either EVERY flanker pilot ive come across sucks or your wrong some people actually know what their doing and im one of them...good luck killing me in a flanker my f-35 will rip you apart

    and my other comment states im fairly adept in said f-35

  • Sorry but a stupid question.

    When using the cannon in the jet,how do you know where you are aiming at?Should you look at the cross at the center or the circle that has a dot inside?

  • Yes the turning is shit. But I love those main guns :3.

  • i was owning a su 35 with f-35 and the pilot was not a noob but in hover mode you are like a chopper so they have a harder time to kill you especially if you have the hardbrake button in use!

  • @HenryTomasino1 i found out about it after i made this tutorial and the jet still turns like crap.

  • @elitegamerbros in the next patch they will be fixing the F-35 to make it a better dog fighter but it won't be able to hover at high altitudes

  • I actually thing they should keep it like this since the Veyron is better than the Havoc and this kinda evens things out a little bit.

  • when im in a dogfight (in an F-35) with a su-35 and the enemy pilot is outturning me, i just go in to hover mode, swivel around, and take him out with heat-seekers.

  • you gonna make a new how to be a noob soon? i have one for you! "team mates love it if you put a tank in front of the jet when they are trying to take off" :)

  • here's a tip diego if a SU is on your tail then slow down till your behind him (hover) make sure you have extinguisher then when behind don't speed up, stay hovering just in case he makes a turn.

  • yh i thought it was shit as well

  • I've been flying in bf3 and old bf games for long time, and i just saw all your video tutorials cause a friend showed them to me. Its funny cause we do many things in the same way, maneuvers, loadouts, without havent seen each others gamestyle. I encourage all the people to follow this tutorial cause theese are the best tips for flying in my opinion.

    And yes, F35 is underpowered. To all this f35 wannabe pros:everyone can take down a su, if the pilot is noob, but at equal flying skill, su wins

  • As a Rush pilot I typically don't fly Conquest too often. I would consider myself a damn good pilot too (on Xbox) as in my 25 hours of flying I've found only 4 players I would call equal skill level to me but none better. In conquest, I do pretty well and have had a few great matches in the F-35 but the second the opposition had a decent Su-35 pilot it was impossible for me no matter what tactic I deployed.

  • I been using the F35 as a heli, not as a jet. Only way to do it right. And yeh, the hover ability is REALLY inconsistent and annoying. Only seems to hover immediately after take-off... all other times it slowly loses attitude... Also when trying to land for repairs the hover will often send me back up again. :(

  • @OhManTFE Yep...but try this. Hover works consistently when you are close to the ground AND the landing gear comes out.....leave the throttle full but use the brake ('S' key on PC) and you will hover and can control it (some people use afterburner at the same time, but I am not sure if that helps at all). Having the landing gear down is the key I am pretty sure....that's why you slowly sink if you are up in the air higher.

  • Why keep the same Russian plane but change the american plane?! they should have changed both. And they shouldn't of even chosen the f-35 they should have gone with the f-22 for america and the su-37 for Russia. Both of those planes look AWESOME and they are 5th generation. It also would have been cool if they allowed 2 maned jets, it would be similar to the campaign mission :D

  • i am a ctually a pretty good jet pilot and i have to say i love this jet, and i can usualy outmaneuver an s-u

  • the thing about the F-35 is, it isnt as maneuverable as the Su-35 in real life, so there is no need to fix the maneuverability. and the aiming is not centered because you can put the crosshair(the small plus sign with the dot in the middle)on the plane you are chasing and the gun reticle(the big circle with the dot in the middle)will adjust to help you hit the target. but in terms of maneuverability, the F-35 is no match for even less experienced pilots, there is really no strategy besides luck.

  • @hotpocketpoison that's very true, irl an old mig-25 can blow the f-35 out the sky

  • While u cant win dog fights. The patterns ands low altitudes I fly at keep enemy pilots off my back, where the f-35 shines is ground support. Honestly that all I do anyway. So it works for me.

  • SU-35

    +Better turning ability

    -Weaker main gun

    F-35

    +Faster

    +Stronger main gun

    +Better air to ground capabilities

    -weaker armor

    -turning isn't as tight as the Sukhoi

    Bottom line is that the F35 CAN keep up with the SU-35 but it has a bigger learning curve (decrease speed to 290-310 knots to make as sharp or close as sharp of a turn as the SU-35)and you CAN destroy an SU-35 with it even if agaisnt the best pilots.

  • @URsuckishATlife Best SU pilots will out turn you every time and lower F35 cannons velocity and zoomed crosshairs make it almost impossible to destroy good or decent Sukhoi pilots.

  • @TomuxLT probably but like I stated, it's because of the learning curve. Both planes have similar optimal turning speeds(285 knots).

    Now, most likely than not, if you're in a dogfight, you will gain/lose altitude, meaning that you will gain/lose speed making it much more difficult to keep that steady speed if not impossible.

    Now, holding down the brake on the SU35 has little to no downside but doing so on the F35 will make the plane go into hover mode, hence making it easier to be shot down

  • @URsuckishATlife Add me on battlelog (ali1204) and show me your big words in action. The f-35 can't compete with a good pilot in a flanker. end of story. Not sure what type of idiot pilots you been playing against.

  • @URsuckishATlife many people hate it. but f-35 just demands more training. its very good. suggest you try it on empty server.

  • @gethsoftware Not to brag, But I do use it and I am fairly competent with it.

  • @URsuckishATlife the ONE thing you forgot:

    F-35

    +can out-maneuver the SU35 when stalled out

  • @URsuckishATlife Thanks for advice bro. Now if only I can see those small ass numbers on my screen -_-

  • @URsuckishATlife So your conclusion is that we all should purchase a superhornet and expecto patronum the shit out of that F-35!?

  • @willepille123 wut?

  • f-35 is better against choppers, hover mode is just something fancy NEVER use it. ONLY when someone is behind you.i always use beam scanning and ecm jammer and heat seekers. the the has powerfull cannons and turning speed is slow. its shoots between to lockes crosshair and the hoverinng one. you just need to get used to it.

  • You flying on Joy?

  • holy shit so many long comments

  • Thanks for the tips. The F-35 definitely has potential but not too many hood things to balance it out with the other fighters

  • since it is possible to slow down and let the SU pass you, wouldn't a good load out contain Beam Scanning and Heat Seekers to quickly lock on to the enemy pilot before he turns to get away?

  • F-18 better

  • The F-35 sucks, just like in real life LOL.

  • its so so should on be in rush

  • I always use it as a helicopter/mobile turret. Turning on a dime while hovering and spamming missiles all over the place.

  • to fly like vtol u have to hold the hover button and move forward

  • You taught the best tip for BtK jet tactic already: use F35 to steal enemy's SU35

  • how you get in hover mode on ps3?

  • i find i can turn faster than you can in the f-35, at least in this video.i play on the xbox, and a quick alternation of acceleration and deceleration seems to work, although you have to accelerate more than decelerate; it seems to me at least that you decelerate much faster than you accelerate. im not the best jet pilot by a long shot, but i was able to out maneuver a lot of enemy jets. i find if you treat this jet more like jet-chopper hybrid it works better since it is mainly anti-infantry.

  • The F-35 Lightning IS a cool plane, BUT i do believe this guy is right. The SU-35 is a better plane in experienced hands. So Dice should've put in the F-22 Raptor, to take hovering out of the equation, and put the SU-37 Terminator in Russian hands to counter the F-22's awesome manueverabilty. Or this is what i would've personally. =/ I think that would've been way more badass. not to say the F-35 wasn't a cool plane and all.

  • Finally someone who agrees with me on a seprate button for hover mode

  • I agree. F-35 simply can not handle a Flanker, simply put, the flanker is the better choice, the fact that whenever I try to slow down I drop from the sky because hover mode, or rather instant death mode starts and I'm sent to a scream flaming death of rage. I've seen one F-35 beat me in a Flanker, he bleed his speed, and managed to line himself up perfectly and disable me with his cannon. However I just came back, and killed him. He took me out once, taking me by suprise. I killed 4 times after

  • since when are you elite?

  • fun fact : F35 turns around faster when you roll it 90 degrees and then hold arrow key up :)

  • I just have to say that I completely agree with the guy in the video. He basicly hits the nail on the head of what's wrong and unballanced with this jet. It is, is fact, supposed to be a 5th generation multirole stealth fighter. In theory it would be supperior to the SU

  • @MattitudeXSensei What I am trying to say is that it doesn't stand a chance against a good pilot flying the SU-35. I tested non stop for over 1 hour, doing 1 vs 1 against a equally great pilot flying the SU and I didn't stand a chance - we then switched jets, and HE didn't stand a chance. However, with the F-35 you can still own noobs or dominate if there is not air competition BUT any decent SU pilot will own you everytime. period. If you got what it takes to prove me wrong I'd LOVE to see it.

  • @elitegamerbros i could, do it all the time

  • @deltaD07 DiegoRod is my username on PC I would love to see HOW you do it so I can learn from you.

  • @elitegamerbros yea i doubt these kids can... ive had thousands of hours flying in the battlefield series and the f35 in this game is worse than useless in an air to air battle.

    the russian pilot has to be terrible or there is no contest

  • @elitegamerbros problem is, im on 360

  • @elitegamerbros the trick is, DO NOT repeat DO NOT get in a turning fight, you are doomed if you do that against a flanker, a lightning cant outmaneuver a flanker so get creative, thats pretty much it

  • @deltaD07 I just flew with a wingman on the f-35 and here is the conclusion: F-35 by itself still sucks against good pilots...BUT if you have a wingman you can survive ALOT longer...video coming soon.

  • @elitegamerbros disagree, but i guess thats your opinion..so oh well

  • @elitegamerbros If you do battle deltaD07, could you record it for me? I would like to see it ;)

  • @elitegamerbros like i said, i spent some time playing against great pilots using both the F35 and the SU-35 and it came out to be my F35 and me dominating most of the time. If i get a chance i'll record some footage of me out flying them in the f-35 and drop you a message mentioning it

  • @elitegamerbros completely agree! its a flying coffin, ive reach the point to just get on an f35 and fly away from the fight till i see of the russian jets die, then i quickly go to the russian airfield and hover there and wait for it to spawn and steal it. F35 sucks!

  • @elitegamerbros but the F-35B is very good to be an Multi-Role Strike Fighter to attack the ground unite and helicopters its like Fighter and Attacker but i agree that i want new map with 1 F-35B & 2 F/A-18F and for Russians 1 YAK-141 & 2 Su-35BM

    the YAK-141 is like an F-35 it take off like the F-35 and we want Attackers to kill some Tanks like A-10C & Su-34 in one new map with F-35 & Su-35 & F/A-18 & YAK-141

  • @elitegamerbros 100% agree. The F-35 not only turns slower.. but (at least on xbox 360) the aiming interface is slightly different. in the F-35 when you turn, the machine guns reticle sways with your movement, Whereas it remains still with the others, making it so much easier to lead and shoot in general

  • @elitegamerbros

    If you had Xbox LIVE I'd show you some of the tactics I use in the F-35.

  • @elitegamerbros No offense but i'm surprised you didn't know that there is an AIR BREAK for all jets now... The Back To Karkand expansion introduced a new key for jets... ctrl. It is the air break and is much more useful than pressing S. Give it a try. Makes the F35 viable against a SU.

  • @elitegamerbros I agree with your review 100% but I have more kills in the F35 than any other jet. The hover capability plays a key role in defending the flags and even taking out enemy vehicles. However that only works when the enemy jets are pre-occupied or you are in control of the airfield part of the map

  • @MattitudeXSensei I am Colonel service star 13... NEVER been shot down by an F-35... Except in a helicopter...

  • @ArcAngelgs see how many fucks i give? lol jk but seriously i do not care, i have yet to have a bad day in my f-35 unless i go under a bridge

  • @MattitudeXSensei Actually no matter how good of a pilot you are if you're put against someone who knows his way around a jet and hes in the SU-35 while you're in the F-35, the best chance you got against him is if you shoot at him head on, if hes on your tail then good luck my friend because chances are hes gonna shoot you down before you can do anything about it. The only thing i find really useful about the F-35 is how effective they are against ground units and choppers.

  • @MattitudeXSensei I've got six aerial kills in a round with the F-35 on Su-35S; yet, I detest it: it's sluggish and just refuses to turn, and it takes sharp reflexes and a keen attention to every signal the plane gives you to not stall it and crash, nevermind ace-ing.

  • @clydeyello 22-0 with an f-35 for a single map. i pimpsmacked all who flew against me

  • @MattitudeXSensei Didn't say it's not possible to get any good with the F35, but I'd still take the Su-35 over it any day.

  • @MattitudeXSensei ....Said by someone with no BF3 videos at all, much less F-35 vids, fail. For everyone else - I got the Realmware mod to bind a button to the brake so the F-35 does not go into hover...it helps, but the SU-35 Flanker still out turns you, the best I could do was to not get killed in a circle dogfight (I think I got the Flanker once) but I was stuck in an endless circle without being able to really get behind the Flanker reliably. I agree with this vid.

  • @vamp9190 so you're basing your argument against someone the opinion of someone else because they don't have bf3 videos up? you sir are the biggest dumbass I have ever had the misfortune of replying to...Get a life!

  • @MattitudeXSensei ME NO DUMBAZZ......ME SUPAR SMAARTE. Thanks for the advice! I just got a life....so I'm gtg. You are simply a trolling kid, so either put up or shut up.

  • @vamp9190 oh noooo me so intimidated by big bad nerd on internets! haha dude you need to really do a little more than take video games wayyy too seriously.

  • Yeah lets all be honest, no need for fighting each other, the F-35 is useless as fuck and needs a fix.

  • Hmm quite said there should be a hover button for f 35 and a throttle down

  • i personaly like this jet. i have dont have much proplems with it.

  • I had a 23-0 game with the f-35 and I out turned every jet that challenged me. you have to use a combination of throttle down and afterburner, and you'll win every time! You should fly it more before you say its useless...

  • can you please post a tut on how to out fly some one that is chasing you in a jet?!

  • can you do a review for all planes in BF3

  • U know it is possible to out run the SU..... with the maintain speed of 280 to 290.... and you said it is impossible right? Well it is possible, just tap the break once or twice and press the boost button hold it for 1sec and press it again.... This means you can maintain speed within the range of 280 to 300 easily.

  • Wait, so how do you go into Hover mode?

  • ON BTK maps there are places where you can fly with F35 but you cant with the FLANKER cause wings of that 2nd are wider

  • i don't give two shits about this stuff, i just kamikaze every time. great vid!

  • I guess it's more of a ground attack fighter.

  • F-35 Isn't for Dog Fights , its for good ground targers when you go with hover mode

  • I came here because I was experiencing the same problems, but hoped it was just because I was too stupid to figure out how to brake without going into hover mode. Guess I'm not as noob as I thought, which is still bad.

    Thanks for clearing this up that it is just a low maneuverable jet when it comes to air v air.

  • Thanks for not adding a 20 second intro to your quality videos, like fhrope does.

  • @kam00n haha...thanks, I hate intros, I prefer small outros

  • I'm pretty sure this was the same way the plane flew in bf2, but I haven't played in a while

  • I managed to get 10 kills in a round whit the F-35.It's not such a bad jet when the enemy jet is noob.

  • you are one of the best pilots ive seen, you have taught me alot about flying but the f-35 what can i say its a waste of time thanks for the help elitegamerbros :)

  • i think that the only way to use it effectively is to get a high altitude and use heat seekers to take out enemy aircraft, it can be difficult to win a close rage dog fight and i was sad to find out how balanced it was just cause it can hover

  • I agree 100%

  • hold the slow down button when your in hover mode

  • The only good thing that this jet has going for it is its more powerful cannon. Only a handful of direct hits will not only disable the Su-35, but destroy it completely and killing the enemy pilot. This is also great when dealing with enemy tanks, as you can destroy them in one pass. You're right about a different key or button needed to engage the hover mode, as well as giving this thing a maneuverability boost. Perhaps giving it the same turn rate, but slower roll rate would even things out.

  • @elitegamerbros All right... A lot of good pilots told me that the F-35 is not really good on dog fight... And yes, they do use it to steal the ennemy jet too...

  • Yeah it is the most difficult jet to get used to. It's not totally bad but you can be very effective if you know what you're doing. I just went 14-1 today with the Harrier on the Gulf of Oman playing a Conquest match. The 1 death was from an enemy jet crashing into me lol!!

  • guys, it aint easy balancing a fith generation fighter made in 2012 to a forth gen russian fighter made much earlyer

  • i find the F35 to be the best partly because when im chasing a heli i can just use hover mode to stay still and take advantage by getting better aim against a target, also when being chased by a plane just use hover mode to out turn your enemy and then kill them :)

  • Can't polish a turd Diego.

  • What does that mean, "The crosshairs are not fixed to the cockpit" ?

  • im not a very good pilot in bf3 but i got 2 kills with the F35 and i was like "HOW THE FK DID I DO THAT!!"

  • This isn't the first time we've had a VTOL in BF...I'm surprised I even need to say this, but if they buffed the F35 the SU would have no advantages. Now that the commander and related features are gone, the only advantage C flag on Wake is removing jets and aa from the enemy (and splitting the map, but that's unrelated). Just because an F35 doesn't play the same way as a SU doesn't mean its unbalanced. There's more to balance than direct counters.

  • Just a little tip - 285-290 is the best speed for faster turns, not 310

  • @Trux2010 285-290 is perfectly fine for SU35 and F18 but going that slow on F-35 would cause you to slow down too often when you accidentally dip below that range becaue of how sensitive the break is.

  • @elitegamerbros Oh thanks :)

  • I think Dice should of just put back the F-18 Super Hornet back on the B2K map, or try to find a way to make the F-35 more easily to maneuver.

  • @Kprawl291986 I couldn't agree with you more.

  • @Kprawl291986 easier to maneuver and separate hover key :)

  • @Kprawl291986 all they need to do is to removing switching to VTOL everytime you break, and instead bind that function to another button

  • @Kprawl291986 or the tomcat that was awesome :)

  • @Kprawl291986 It's a balance. If the F-35 could turn like an F-18 or SU-35, it would be overpowered. It already has a stronger gun than the F-18 and SU-35, and it is faster in a straight line with better acceleration. DICE implements "rock paper scissors" style gameplay, meaning everything can be taken out by the enemy. If you had a highly maneuverable, anti-tank, anti-air, very fast jet, it would be completely unfair.

  • @edawg792 last i heard, DICE was trying to make the guns handle realistically, and let their real life perks determine the winner in game, let it balance itself out with realism, i'm sure that'd work just fine with the jets, as well

  • @hylianknight3 That's what I'm saying. Keep it the way it is. The F-35B (STVOL variant) is much heavier than other fighters, and even the F-35A (regular takeoff) variant. The lift fan in the F-35B weighs several thousand pounds. In real life it is not intended to dogfight, it is intended to provide CAS for ground forces. The weight of the lift fan makes it much less maneuverable than other fighters. That's how DICE made it in the game. It is realistic and balanced.

  • @edawg792 i see what you're saying now ;)

  • @edawg792 realistic maybe, balanced..... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO­LOLOLOLOLOL

  • when in the sulkhoi, i find it extremely easy to shoot down the F-35

    cause of their large turn radius and their very large wing profile, they're like a sitting duck with a bulletmagnet

  • @freakaefari lol approved

  • do somebody know how to spot enemys on ps3?

  • @Ziliths select button

  • @peppie132 thanks :)

  • totally agree with this, the F-35 is extremely unefficient compared to the flanker, the hover mode does not make up to the sluggish controls of the jet.

  • I usually pwn with the f 35

    :/

  • The only reason I found the F-35 to be useful is to use it as a secondary helicopter which just makes the F-35 useless because the SU-35 will just keep shooting you down.

  • The F-35 is shit but i only found one tactic i found of using it is beam scanning and rockets (not rocket pods) and and what ever you want the other one to be.

  • @Drazard10100 me 2. When every im in a f35 i get beam scanning and gudied missles and just fly back and fourth taking out anything that can be locked on to.

  • Every decent jet pilot who tried f-35 on bf3 will agree that this jet is useless. UH-1 venom is more useful than this crap...

  • Totally agree! The F-35 is garbage!

  • i've never got to fly the F-35 *to many veichle whores* but from what i've seen ingame & what i just does'nt surprise me you need to use a mix of jet & chopper piloting skills...dice should nerf it...now if you excuse me im going to go try & steal the Sulkhoi with a F-35 if i can get on & AA does'nt cut me down...

  • There is a higher learning curve for the jet. It will take time for people to get better. I wouldn't call it imbalanced seeing it has more functions than the rest of the fighters in the game.

  • @MrTrinz I got to ask you. How many jet kills do you have in the game and how long you spent in jet ?

  • The F35 sounds fierce on my sound system..

    And that's about it.

  • Good video, thanks for the heads up. You think you could do a video on the different attachments and rounds for the shotguns and the attached shotguns for the Assault class? I still do not know the difference between flechette, buckshot, and slug rounds.

  • 1:49 - Correction, If the enemy pilot is any good he will shoot you down before he passes you.

  • @projectodemayhem exactly

  • My thoughts exactly

  • lol

    

  • lol, funny that this was the SAME exact thought i had when i got into an f35, why the hell would i want to slow down when i'm trying to evade another jet? HOW DOES THIS GET OVERLOOKED. PEOPLE IN BETA NEED TO ACTUALLY DESERVE IT FFS

  • found the F-35 shit aswell an was waiting for your tutorial on it.

    Good to know i wasnt doing anything wrong when i used it for kamikaze kills and enemy jet stealing

  • i found a tactic for it that works for me n i just went 28-0

  • What did we expect? It was shitty in BF2 aswell.

  • The only thing I like about it is making enemy jet pilots feel embarrassed when I shoot them down. A separate button would be nice for it, fixing the aim to the corsshairs like all the other jets would be nice, and allowing you to lift up while in hover mode would all make the aircraft worth using.

  • I hoped theres was any tip for flying this sh*t, but it turned to be as always... F-35 vs good/decent pilots = fail

    The only good thing for the moment is the cannon.. so easy to take out helis.

  • If it doesn't work for you I have no shot

  • At least we can feel better that there's no J-10... Like BF2. Nothing could turn with it.

  • in real life the f 35 sucks, the sukhoi 35/30mki are far superior stupid americans....

  • @iamgig9876 The F-35 is a Multirole fighter, Meaning its built for both Air/Ground attack, Since it has to attack both, It will lack compared to a dedicated Air or Ground Fighter.

    The Su-35 is also a multirole, But it was built more towards Air superiority.

    Conclusion: DICE can't get there shit balanced. and Americans are not to blame.

    Dice should put 2 jets per team, One for Ground (Frogfoot/Warthog) and One for Air (F15?/MiG29?)

  • @Jaxxmino Close. Though the F-35 has turned out to be a huge balls-up in most every way to the extent that they're only continuing with the project because they've already sunk so much into it. So the people developing it are a little to blame.

  • @Jaxxmino I dont even know why they put the su 25, they should have put the su 34 which beats every american attack aircraft... They should keep su 35 and fa-18 super hornet for fighter WVR and they should give bvr capabilities to them (SU 35>>FA 18 at BVR) . Yes Americans are to blame, and since this game is set at 2014 a f 35 should be the american fighter, and since it sucks massive balls in bvr, and is barely stealthy it is holding the game back!

  • the f35s so useless, i have over 500 air kills and cannot use this thing whatsoever.

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  • The F-35 is overpowered as being a taxi cab in BF3.

  • I think that DICE intentionally nerfed the F-35 because of hover mode - if they made the F-35 just as agile as the enemy fighter, plus increased anti-ground capability with hover, it'd seem overpowered. Problem is, their "balance" of the F-35 makes it worthless in an air superiority or support role, completely negating any balance whatsoever.

    As it stands, though, I try to fly support and let the chopper deal with the enemy jets. Or just bail out and cry manly tears.