Improve the responsiveness of the commands to raise or lower the helicopter. (remove the lag of imputs)Increase the speed of helicopters.Add air radarAdd Missile TV To GunnerAdd thermal vision Add the ECM Jammer (countermeasures)Considerably increase rocket speed (all)Center projectiles and cannonsDecreases heat seekers missile damage (3 missiles to kill, not 2)Add Below Radar to avoid Lock-ON heat-Seekers and radar missiles.Lower defense of transport helicoptersIncrease optical zoom rangeAdd an altitude limit for Stingers Missile Lock-ON (500 meters).Countermeasures often fail, both in the jet and in helicopters as well. The Flares need to be fixed.For now, this is what I consider to be the most important for the health of the game.The most important thing is to improve the responsiveness of the helicopters, it doesn't have to be the same as the BF4 (although I would like to), but the way they are, it can't stay.

Some more attachments would be great, but helicopters are in a great place IMO2 AA MISSLES SHOULD KILL A CHOPPER ALL DAY

@ItachiSSIII Dude are you trolling? Helicopters dominate every single match. The ground to air AA can’t lock on to you unless within 250 metres and it takes 5 seconds to lock. If even a cable comes between you lock on is lost. Most helicopters can outfly the range of the stinger’s lock on in that 5 seconds or just ascend to an altitude where we can’t even try and lock on. It takes 4 missiles to kill you and we only get 3. Helicopters are the last thing that needs a buff right now as you are virtually invincible.

Hell no. Helicopters are the worst part of this game. There is almost no respawn timer on any vehicle. I have tons of clips of me and my squad just doing anti-aircraft all game long with nothing else done but trying to kill Helicopters and as soon as you have them down you see two more coming. I have seen 4 helicopters at one time killing one objective. They are so OP it's not even funny. YOU ARE LAUGHABLE. Thermal ah yea so there is no hiding as an already weak infantry that has very little countermeasure to helicopters, to begin with, let us just make it more of a fish in a barrel game for you. 3 missiles yea because I can just keep getting missiles from supply packs oh wait no I have to kill myself to get more missiles to shoot one down. Also, they just fly off out of distance and repair up over and over. all vehicles need a defense nerf. Hovercraft takes 3 rockets crazy its made of rubber. Tanks by the time I shoot them 3 times then die spawn back up they are repaired. In some games I just sit and take out vehicles the entire time shooting 3 times respawn shoot 3 times respawn and still never run out of vehicles to shoot without moving to a different objective. If you would like some youtube clips of how it feels to be on the ground let me know I'll upload them.

And air to ground needs buffing

@Lunyfx Helicopters are fine, that guy doing the “simple hold and shoot” is looking at the sky and vulnerable to anything on the ground. I think the majority of players do not want helicopters to do the “circle of death” with impunity. If you want to be an invincible lord of the sky, play solo and kill bots.

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Flavin913
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Some more attachments would be great, but helicopters are in a great place IMO
2 AA MISSLES SHOULD KILL A CHOPPER ALL DAY
ItachiSSIII
4 years ago
@Flavin913 Launching guided missiles is very easy, it shouldn't have the reward of earning a KILL that easily.
Bigmoney2610
4 years ago
@ItachiSSIII When you get hacked then have two people lock on your doomed 😂
TheUltimateSmug
4 years ago
Yes and no. A good pilot will be able to dodge you consistently. Hills, buildings, even trees in some cases. However, I wouldn't mind ECMs. I'd like flares to come back slower but give the helicopter time to flee. But this means you'll just have someone in a helicopter attacking once and fleeing back to base. They'd be useless and wouldn't help the team. Can't have that K/D ruined.
The flares as is actually work the same way ECM did in BF4. Stops locks and continues to stop them for a few seconds after deployment. Helicopters are in a great place in my opinion, especially their health. I've only really seen pilot mains complain. But more importantly, a broad range of attachments and some proper buffs and nerfs would be great. Why should a pilot be forced to use rocket pods when there are a bunch of other weapons? Why is one attachment the only one worth using? I'm looking forward to the changes, but it's best not to make helicopters busted. Orbital is a great example of a good map for helicopters. The hills, buildings and incredibly short stinger range mean you can escape incredibly easily. Speed, on the other hand, can make locks impossible. It's a lose lose scenario. I'd like to hear your opinion in a bit more detail. I just know that once we start listening to pilots and pilots only, we're gonna be in trouble. Same with people that only play tank or LAV.
I just kinda worry, y'know?
Bigmoney2610
4 years ago
And air to ground needs buffing
Lunyfx
4 years ago
You can’t dodge multiple AA rockets while moving on slow brick…
This franchise always gives people too many ways to shoot down aircraft.
So you’re reduced to short strafe runs on a vehicle that’s not very agile, while ground troops get 3 AA locking rockets on a 62 squads match…

Every troop should only get one rocket that cannot be resupplied from a weapon crate because this is a respawn game, so wont be long before that guy you killed with the chopper dies and targets you asap.

You shouldn’t have to be a major sweat God to dodge a simple hold and shoot, 3 missile simpleton from anywhere on the map…
DCAT627
Seasoned Veteran
4 years ago
@Lunyfx Helicopters are fine, that guy doing the “simple hold and shoot” is looking at the sky and vulnerable to anything on the ground. I think the majority of players do not want helicopters to do the “circle of death” with impunity. If you want to be an invincible lord of the sky, play solo and kill bots.
ItachiSSIII
4 years ago
You are not being reasonable. Helicopters do not have the agility to hide in time behind some element of nature or construction. In addition, the amount of super effective weapons that destroy helicopters multiplied in Battlefiel 2042, meanwhile, helicopters lost agility, speed, ability to land and lose altitude quickly. There is a delay in landing, you need to go into landing state, this takes time and if we land without being in ''landing state'' the helicopter explodes.
If they added so many things to destroy helicopters in this game, at the very least, the helicopters should have the same capability they have in Battlefield 4, simply put.
The_Suit05
4 years ago
@ItachiSSIII Actually you have to sit around for 5s hoping no one shoots you and you don't break LoS with the Heli.

If you lose Heli breaks LoS for 1s - you have to restart 5s again.
So no it doesn't need more health.

In fact Heli needs nerfs to where 0 repairs can happen automatically - has to be repaired with a tool.
Lunyfx
4 years ago
@DCAT627 Lol they’re vulnerable… That’s hilarious. Helicopters need work.
They’re too slow, can get shot down by one player using the greatest form of aim assist, and they shoot nerf rockets…