I understand the need for a balance between helis and AA but the FXM missiles are too strong now. In the Beta test it was possible to dodge fxm missiles and avoid death, now it is impossible as they will hit you 90% of the time on the first run, and if they miss, they will come back and hit you indefinitely. And to top it off, the fxm missile is being carried by enough infantry that you are getting locked onto every few seconds. This makes helicopter gameplay extremely painful.please at least allow them to be dodged again or for it to take more hits to take down a chopper, or remove them from infantry or give infantry a lesser powered launcher.

A pilot able to thread the needle can make the stingers pretty useless though, yes, I have seen some rockets do some crazy tricks. Current state vehicles, both land and air, are a tremendous pain for every ground soldier so last thing I want to see is an AA nerf

@Balegma i wonder if the reason that almost all use the FMX could be because helis are literally unkillable otherwise and would farm anyone and everyone without remore or pause....how about we do it this wayremove the rockets and 20mm cannons from the "nightbird" and give it sidemounted MGs and increase the seats from 4 to 6 so it actually becomes a transport chopper that is fast and agile,for the super hind and condor remove all Miniguns but one and keep the spotter but increase the passenger size to 8 so they become big transporters to deploy fast and hard...but hey if we do that all the heli pilots woudl sharpen their pitchforks because their toys were touched

@Balegma wrote:I understand the need for a balance between helis and AA but the FXM missiles are too strong now. In the Beta test it was possible to dodge fxm missiles and avoid death, now it is impossible as they will hit you 90% of the time on the first run, and if they miss, they will come back and hit you indefinitely. And to top it off, the fxm missile is being carried by enough infantry that you are getting locked onto every few seconds. This makes helicopter gameplay extremely painful.please at least allow them to be dodged again or for it to take more hits to take down a chopper, or remove them from infantry or give infantry a lesser powered launcher. Have you asked yourself why this might be the case?Didn't think so.....

Good, so it should be. The players on the ground should have some sort of fighting chance as this is our only weapon to fight it! Being a player on the ground and getting smashed by air is not a nice exp, so to have the FXM is our weapon choice against it. So I hope it will not be nerfed!!

@TTZ_Dipsy This is not due to vehicle balance, this is due to bad map design. Vehicle superiority is common on every modern setting battlefield. But every mode and map in previous titles you could have places and flags for infantry fights without being killed by vehicles. All you have in 2042 is wide open fields with almost none structures like buildings etc with flags inside so infantry could fight there

Anti-Air needs nerfing on 2042 | EA Forums

59 Replies

carsono311
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Balegma I will agree only in that the Stinger flight pathing sometimes defeats terrain… like if I fly behind a hill. They truly are a “dumb” missile in that they will only fly their most direct route. At least that is what they should do.

Otherwise, I do not encounter many manpads or have issues with flare management.
MaratBoy
4 years ago
I can't understand why there is no any direction sign when I get lock by stinger
UP_LordPlumber
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@MaratBoyBecause as with many other things in this game, its missing...
X-Sunslayer-X
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Balegma i wonder if the reason that almost all use the FMX could be because helis are literally unkillable otherwise and would farm anyone and everyone without remore or pause....
how about we do it this way
remove the rockets and 20mm cannons from the "nightbird" and give it sidemounted MGs and increase the seats from 4 to 6 so it actually becomes a transport chopper that is fast and agile,
for the super hind and condor remove all Miniguns but one and keep the spotter but increase the passenger size to 8 so they become big transporters to deploy fast and hard...
but hey if we do that all the heli pilots woudl sharpen their pitchforks because their toys were touched
TTZ_Dipsy
Hero+
4 years ago
A pilot able to thread the needle can make the stingers pretty useless though, yes, I have seen some rockets do some crazy tricks. Current state vehicles, both land and air, are a tremendous pain for every ground soldier so last thing I want to see is an AA nerf
Astroboy314
4 years ago
I agree, I think it depends a lot on the map, who's flying and also how many players have the stinger. I've seen a skilled Apache pilot own the map.
TheUltimateSmug
4 years ago
@TTZ_Dipsy Thank you. Thaaaaaank you. Helicopters are a huge pain, especially because you can't lock them at anything more than 400 meters. It makes hourglass absolutely awful. Buildings make the stinger easy to dodge and flares do actually come back incredibly quickly. I was surprised when I flew.
VOLBANKER_PC
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I’ve started trolling helicopters.
Every time I see one, unless I’m fighting or in danger, I lock my missile on it. But I never fire 🙂
(I only fire if the target is max. 100 metres away, otherwise they’ll just use flares and I’ll have wasted a missile + revealed my location to surrounding enemies)
Fringerunner
4 years ago
From what I've seen (as stated by others already) a pilot using terrain/obstacles can nullify a lot of guided munitions, much to my annoyance sometimes.
Takes skill, but i have no issue with that over the absolute murder-train that was just circle-strafing the ground with a little bird in beta.
Trokey66
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Balegma wrote:
I understand the need for a balance between helis and AA but the FXM missiles are too strong now. In the Beta test it was possible to dodge fxm missiles and avoid death, now it is impossible as they will hit you 90% of the time on the first run, and if they miss, they will come back and hit you indefinitely.

And to top it off, the fxm missile is being carried by enough infantry that you are getting locked onto every few seconds. This makes helicopter gameplay extremely painful.
please at least allow them to be dodged again or for it to take more hits to take down a chopper, or remove them from infantry or give infantry a lesser powered launcher.
Have you asked yourself why this might be the case?
Didn't think so.....