Grrrr... a little help here?

How exactly does the F35 work?
I've flown it a few times without any real issues, but last night I wanted to try hovering around shooting stuff with it.

But how does it work that way? I can hold the down-throttle to get it to hover, then turning on the afterburner seems to keep it hovering... but then I couldn't turn or pitch it from the inside view. If I went to the outside view I could turn and pitch it just a bit, but as soon as I did it dropped altitude.

Is there a way to hover and control altitude while hovering?
Is there a way to move left/right/forward/back while hovering and if there is can I also pitch the nose to aim.

Stupid plane. Damn DICE for taking something that should be completely awesome and easy to implement and screwing it up.

DEATH TO SWEDES!

Oh yeah... it was fun playing with you Greg!

Hmmm... no F35 pros here?

Artimise, you're in the Airforce. How the hell does this plane work?

And Milk, you know how to fly tanks. I'm sure you know hoe to fly the F35.

And Terry, you're awesome. You must know.

Tom, you know all kinds of crazy computer shit. F35's have computers in em' don't they? Tell me how it works.

and zillah, you know, with 22 hours in jets

the F35 pretty much sucks. hovering with it for any sustained period is impossible.

and in dog fights the hovering gear always deploys mid-turn and then youre stranded

Really its only use is for raping havocs with its minigun (which it does very well) and then bailing out over the enemy runway to get a flanker.

Zillah wrote:and zillah, you know, with 22 hours in jets

the F35 pretty much sucks. hovering with it for any sustained period is impossible.

and in dog fights the hovering gear always deploys mid-turn and then youre stranded

Really its only use is for raping havocs with its minigun (which it does very well) and then bailing out over the enemy runway to get a flanker.

Damn. Not the answer I was looking for. Fuckin' DICE.
We should be able to hover it around all Die Hard 3 style, blowin' shit up.

LAME!

22 hours? Holy crap!

Not to mention the thing turns like a triple amputee sea turtle out of water.

Yup F35 in the game is horrible at what it is supposed to do, except for intended purpose of helo killing.

The implementation of hover mode is completely broken, and I have no idea why they changed it from BF2 where it was near perfect, so dog fighting is out of question, unless you are going to force yourself to use heat seekers against useless enemy pilots.