Effective advice for air defense
Never leave air defense tasks to individual soldiers. Air defense should be what the Wildcat should do, but the Wildcat's performance capabilities are very poor. In addition to the infinite height-lo...
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as a person that flies, can i get an admin to delete the OP's post? lmao
all kidding aside, Wildcats do not need to be buffed, they have insane distance for AA missile target lock on. If you're flying in a map in a plane, no matter what area (unless its at the edge of the map) you're constantly getting locked on and fired upon from the Wildcats. as a person who is an intermediate at flying, and depending on the map, and player(s) in the wildcats, You'd be lucky to be flying for more than a minute and hardly get any kills in. Obviously people are gonna say "oh its a skill issue" but when you are trying to gain experience in flying, this makes it near impossible to do.
@NehkidGramma84Sure the AA missiles of the Wildcat have great distance, but it's easily negated by below radar and the abundant flares.
I just wish the MAA could defend itself against experienced Nightbird pilots and Attack Heli crews deciding to dunk on the MAA. The MAA does too little damage vs the AH now (medium to long distance, from where the AH can shred it accurately) and has too little elevation and turret speed once the nightbird starts circling it with it's AGM's. Once the first AGM hits, the MAA is basically already dead.
This game needs the MAA from BF3 and BF4 imo, minus the reactive armor/active protection.
I think the ideas of the OP are solid, DICE wanted to make the IGLA to work like that in BF4 but because of engine limitations they did not if I recall correctly.
Only thing I heavily disagree with is the proposed MAA damage buff versus infantry and the APS. I'd like to see a MAA that is easily countered by groundforces.
- @Wargame_Enj0yer I agree the Wildcat should be able to defend itself against such targets, and we have a candidate to help against NBs and AHs, but it sucks right now due to how it has so many tradeoffs from the 30mm guns, Like it makes no sense the 35mm has a slow turn radius when helis have a better range of mobility, especially the NB that was never meant to be a good AT helicopter.
I think APS is fine on the Wildcat since most helis run Tows bombs and Rockets anyways. You still have to time it to get the most use, but I think it should be in the same slot of Thermal Smoke to prevent chaining Counter Measures which is a thing on MBTs but no one complains about it. - @Wargame_Enj0yer I don't think it has any impact because the distance is very close. After all, these have been implemented in Battlefield 4 and work very well.
Depending on the map the 2 aas should stick together they become much more powerful and also should not rely just on the missiles but on their cannons too
