Excessive weakening of condor/Hind
The nerfs in the August update are clearly overkill. Players often talk about how strong Condor/Hind are, but they can't do simple addition. Condor/Hind has 2 or more players. In some cases, condor/...
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Straatford87
DICE Team
DICE TeamHey folks,
Update 1.2 went live in the past hour.
When you next have the opportunity to play, let us know how the Transport (and Stealth helicopters) feel after the update. From our experience, we did see they were too strong versus infantry.
@Straatford87I can foresee 40mm GL spam being the new Meta for Hind/Condor. Neither the 50mm or 40mm should exist on either platform. Two Miniguns are plenty and the nose gun should be replaced by smoke canisters activated by the pilot to provide screening for troops being dropped off. Convert the nose gunner to a third passenger slot that can’t use repair tool. More and more the Hind/Condor aren’t transports as most people stay on board more times than not.
The Hind and Condor cross the lines of being more
survivable than the tanks in game, plus high mobility, plus escapability, plus being able to use self repair while being repaired by two passengers. And flares that are almost always off cooldown. All factors combined make for an obviously overpowered platform the likes of which have never been seen on a Battlefield game.
The classic, successful Battlefield formula is highly mobile lightly armed air transports. Blackhawk and Huey type airframes.
@Zhukov211
I'll have to remind some of the older players of the good old BF2 "flying fortress" blackhawk.
At one stage this thing was literally unkillable and could cap flags at 6X speed as all occupants counted towards the flag cap.
I'm pretty sure if I have a good look through some old external drives I could find some foootage of my helicopter completely capping out all 5 flags on Wake Island for the US team in about 3 minutes flat.
Not that I'm saying this was a good thing, but there have been overpowered heli's before and they did the right thing to bring them back to manageable levels.
I believe a few more tweaks (read nerfs) are required for both the transport aircraft and the stealth helicopters.
It would be nice if the tanks could actually be played as the powerful vehicles that they should be.
Kap.@Kaptyn027Miniguns on the Blackhawk take a lot more skill than spamming 40mm GL on the Hind/Condor. When you get hit by a minigun you most often have time to react. When 3 to 4 grenades from the 40mm GL from hind/condor hit you in one time stamp, you have zero reaction time. Add to that the notorious lack of cover on most 2042 maps, 40mm spam will be the new Hind/Condor Meta and these airframes will still be extremely difficult to take down.
