A lot of things happened on the battlefield. Things that Roger couldn't really see or comment on because he was busy getting his Framewerk up off the ground and securing his weapon, which hand flown off somewhere in the crash. He had certainly learned his lesson: don't boost unless you can pilot the damn robot reliably. However, he did manage to grasp the gist of the situation: Avoid Ace Pilot, strawberry cake, Command Channel is a trap, pillars got nuked to shit. 

Yeager's White paint was dirtied with dirt and mud now, but that's how it usually ended up looking after Roger got through with it. Luckily there wasn't any damage that wasn't superficial, a perk of the machine's durability. 

The whole comms system was probably a trap, but the Command channel definitely was. Still, there was no other way to communicate, so he switched to a "private" channel to talk to the Black Star and its pilot."

"Hey," Roger said, his voice shaking more than he's like, "Want to try our lucky by the lake?" There were four or five enemies over there (according to Elora's map), but going into the forest of artillery was a near suicidal plan at best, that tower blocked movement through the center of the battlefield, and they were closer to the lake than everyone else. In any case, he'd try to remain steady in piloting as long as he could, there was no time limit (as far as they were told), and crashing again because he was impatient would only cause more him to remain useless for longer than he already had been.