Just a perspective from my end, and 2 cents about the recent patch.
A new plane that really, eh doesn't do it for me or anyone that I talk to about it. Pretty much a waste of time in our eyes.
Zoom doesn't work for a few of us so, we weren't happy about that.
Flying cockpits, spits that turn UBER fast seemingly totally out of control only to return to a controlled turn also soaking up 500 rounds of cannon ammo - LEFT IN the game.
Everyone complains about this. Yet nothing is done.
Just my advice. I love this game but lately, I play less and less and less due to these frustrations. I avoid spits for this issue but the flying cockpits are still out there. What else that I don't know about? The flying cockpit is a VISUAL acknowledgment that there are serious issues.
Don't just listen to forum people hitech, listen in game and play it for yourself.
Otherwise you'll doom yourself like ww2online did. More content, more fluff - forget the performance issues (not a problem here) and don't fix the bugs (ahem) and people will eventually jump off the bandwagon onto another.
At least a WE ARE WORKING ON IT...would have sufficed a bit.