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EvilutioneX's avatar
4 years ago

Below radar and misile direction indicator are essential for air combat!

I have been a battlefield fan since BF3 I spent over 1000 hours playing the air vehicles in battlefield and the one thing that I've found to be quintessential for air combat is below radar and missile direction indicators.

Without below radar any pilot is just fodder for an ever growing number of people using AA missiles and without any indication other than 3rd person eyeing the missile we cant really locate the culprit.

AA missiles require no skill to use, they are fire and forget and at least in the beta I could dodge them, but now at full release that's not the case and I feel like my skill as a pilot are wasted.

I love battlefield and I really want to give BF 2042 a chance but honestly without below radar and missile indicator I don't see myself playing it for much longer as air combat is what I play battlefield for. Its the one thing that separates it from other popular shooters, with rocket pods on scout, it makes helis as fun as the Arma 3 Pwny!

DICE, please fix this gross misconduct of programming and fix the AA sitch.

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  • DCAT627's avatar
    DCAT627
    Seasoned Veteran
    4 years ago

    @EvilutioneXAnother heli pilot whining because people can shoot them down. Play against the bots if you want to be the supreme ruler of sky.


    Otherwise you just have to deal with the fact that a lot of people can kill you, just like every other role in the game.  

    BTW, from what I’ve seen a truly skilled pilot can do quite well in the current iteration of the game (I think if there were a scoreboard we would see that pilots can routinely get 60+ kills in a round of Breakthrough)

  • this was the same with BF4 .. it took months of intervention to get DICE to reintroduce Below Radar in BF4 .. and now this .. they simply forgot learnings from old titles...

     

    every BF helicopter pilot knows that helicopters need to have more advanced (and therefore difficult) flight physics - so that actually hitting people is harder (and the barrier is higher to actually learn to fly good).

     

    and on the other hand below radar to actually have a chance on open maps against stingers and jets. Because if there is a enemy chopper or a jet far above you and you are in the middle of battlefield (lol), with stingers everywhere around you, you simply have no chance to counter. You cant go up, you cant take cover (below radar) and run.

     

    And further AA needs a buff. In BF3/4 they where the masters of the Sky, not the Helicopters. And so should they. 

     

    @DCAT627 thanks for this comment.... but you need to understand that a game like this needs a lot of finetuning and things matching together. it's not like GTA or other games you are probably used to.

  • DCAT627's avatar
    DCAT627
    Seasoned Veteran
    4 years ago

    @snickers0816Battlefield is the only game I play and have been playing it since Battlefield 1942. Switched from PC to PS for the release of Battlefield 4 (got sick of the cheaters and the expense of constantly upgrading PC hardware).

    Don’t make assumptions about another person’s experiences, you usually just end up looking like a *.

  • thats great then. than you will already know what we are talking about.

    not having below radar + a unbelievable long shooting range for helicopters results in heli's hovering on maximum altitude the map allows, outside the range of stingers(!!), just have some sort of a Call of Duty kill-streak-helicopter-"thing".... 

    this supports the worst kind of chopper pilots in battlefield history. the one's not support their team. the one's not in the battlefield. only the frag counters. its the opposite of what you expect.

  • snickers0816's avatar
    snickers0816
    4 years ago

    and even worse there is no adaptive aiming ... no second, moving cross ... guys ... omfg ... i figure i'll wait for BF2042 to get out of "Call of Fortnite Field" Beta-Stage.

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