True, I've been killed by pods like 5 times total. But you cant deny how easy it is to farm extreme amounts of xp and kills by simple rocketspamming.
Yeah, it's sad but players won't change unless they perceive they have reasons to. I don't think rocket pods are objectively OP right now, since you will get screwed by everything that can harm an ESF
very fast if you start doing rocket strikes, it's just that many inf-centric players just want to ignore them entirely and complain afterwards when they get killed by something they blatantly did nothing to defend themselves against, or at least that's how I understand the whine.
Personally, I think my unattended deployed sunderers took a majority of the damage I or my vehicules ever got by rocket pods. However, when I play an air vehicule, I almost always get killed by ESF, which is normal (especially when as usual I start shooting an enemy fighter, get chased by another one and as usual despite the presence of lots of ESF allies in the area, I get 0 support).
Also, no flare buff, what the hell.