DICE Team
@edgecrusherO0 wrote:
@Joe234567891011Everyone CAN have a stinger, but many don't. And again, breaking locks isn't too difficult and you're very safe if you're primarily doing lots of strafing runs (which seems to be the intended way DICE wants y'all to play) since by folks get a solid lock you can dump your rounds/missiles, blow flares, and then get out of range/behind a hill/building while waiting on the cooldown to come back up.
I'd love for there to be better "dumbfire" options in the game to help deal with this to place more actual skill in the equation. Like, sniping pilots out of their helicopters when they're flying slow or hovering is absolutely the kind of * that I love to see and that keeps it balanced - it becomes a game of skill between the pilots keeping themselves save while lighting up infantry, and snipers trying to get some good shots off to kill the pilot or at least force them away.
And you're right, I don't use air vehicles. But that's because I don't really enjoy it and I absolutely suck at flying with this games flight model. But I love being a gunner/spotter for good pilots, and have fought against tons and tons of good pilots that can keep their aircraft alive almost throughout entire matches.
Many do have a stinger actually, any pilot would attest to that. How can you say breaking locks isn't too difficult when you just admitted you can't actually fly? The amount of effort that goes into keeping a chopper up the whole game cannot be understated. I love how the guys who can't do it always say it's so easy. Years and years of flying across Battlefield and Arma are how I got to this point. People want to get rid of it simply bc they can't do it themselves. Quality pilots make it look easy, but the reality is that it is not easy especially when you are in heavily contested areas. The scoreboard has made it clear in the last month there really are not that many people who keep them up the whole game. I almost never see anyone finish with zero deaths. Flying is the most enjoyable part of this game for me. This update tells me we are headed down a road where the vehicles will be completely neutered in favor of the infantry complainers who don't actually want to take the time to learn the weak points
@edgecrusherO0 wrote:
@Joe234567891011How can I say that? Because I've spent matches fruitlessly trying to take down aircraft piloted by excellent pilots who can keep their aircraft alive almost the entire match.
This is like saying you can't critique food unless you're a professional chef that can cook it, or something. You don't need to be able to cook the food to critique it or say, "This food is good, that food is bad."
Yes, keeping a chopper up the entire match is difficult, I imagine very difficult. But it SHOULD be difficult to keep it up the entire match. It's difficult to stay alive as infantry for an entire match.
"People want to get rid of it simply bc they can't do it themselves."
This is a stupid strawman that nobody is arguing for.
You're overreacting to the changes dude. I know you don't think you're arguing for it, but you're basically arguing for complete vehicular dominance.
What a terrible analogy. A better food analogy would be like saying a souffle is easy to make without ever actually attempting to make it yourself. Seeing other people accomplish staying up in the air for a long time doesn't automatically mean it is easy for them to do so. It is not easy to hit headshots past 500m, but people do that regularly too. Peep the scoreboard more often, very few people end up with zero deaths. People aren't keeping them up in the air as long as you think. I'm not arguing for vehicular dominance, I'm arguing they shouldn't be taking vehicles out of the game when the whole franchise was built around vehicle gameplay. 2 vs 3 spawning and double the cooldown time is a big deal. The whole vehicle pool is being limited now. It shouldn't be hard to get one, you should be able to drop in to one relatively easily. Its' already hard to get one and now it is going to be twice as hard. If people don't want to run into vehicles they shouldn't be playing this game.
