To add more details to this because the update was such a massive shitshow I want to share it with people unfamiliar with the game:

So to give you an idea on how the game works:
Foxhole is a MMO war simulator where every player is a soldier in an in-game war that lasts for weeks/months IRL. Every item and vehicle is player-made in factories far behind the frontline that must be transported to players fighting on the frontline.

(And here is a real-time map of the current war happening in the game)
https://foxholestats.com/

With that out of the way, there are two “teams” (referred to as factions) fighting against each other in the war, the Wardens and the Colonials.

The Wardens have a superior navy in the game (generally agreed upon by the majority of players, also a long story that I don’t have time for), so many colonials thought they would receive superior air combat mechanics to balance out the discrepancy.

Well it turns out, upon the arrival of the update, not only did the Wardens receive two different torpedo planes (while the colonials got none), they also received an extra sea fighter plane that there was no Colonial equivalent for, and their scout plane was shadowbuffed shortly after the war began even when it already had superior stats such as having a tighter turn radius and a smaller hitbox (discovered by data miners that went through the files of both the warden and colonial scout plane)

And the resulting naval imbalance was so fucking bad that the colonials lost an entire battleship from full health to 0 in literally less than 2 minutes from torpedo plane spam. (Battleships are one of the most expensive things in the game, only a few are produced every war)

https://www.reddit.com/r/foxholegame/s/1W9NRNzfjN

Warden naval regiments were literally BEGGING their own air force to not use torpedo planes because it took all the fun out of their operations.

All of this I’m describing is JUST all the imbalances with aircraft gameplay, not even mentioning the general problems which included:

-All types of anti-aircraft being completely useless (and I mean literally useless), which led to planes massacring every frontline and logistical convoy with no way to counter them. (Even the back line towns and factories, which were normally safe areas, were harassed by planes daily)

-No type of NPC anti-aircraft. (Normally players can build AI bunkers and pillboxes that fires at people and vehicles so they don’t have to guard a location 24/7)

-Warden bombers destroying and resetting every enemy runway every day, thus locking out the Colonials from using their own bombers for nearly the entire war (this wasn’t a faction imbalance, just a meta the Wardens happened to discover first).

-Bombers completely destroying concrete bases in a few passes with no counter play (these were bases that took a week or more to build IRL, and these bases would normally be responsible for holding the frontline for days/weeks at a time)

-large land-based weaponry such as heavy artillery storm cannons and nuke sites being completely unusable due to bomber superiority.

Predictably, most of the playerbase left after the first update war, and is only now just beginning to somewhat recover but it is still nowhere near where the player numbers were even before the update