Fix the Stealth Helicopter
Can we please address the stealth helicopter? It should not be able to switch back and forth unlimited times. There is no counter to it if you have a good pilot. It dominates breakthrough in almost e...
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There is a counter to it and his name is Rao. There is also a video here somewhere on how to counter the stealth heli.
I gave up on that Rao crap, when you hack them, it literally tells the pilot where you are, and they just come back and bomb you. There is no truly effective way to counter the stealth-helis with a half-decent pilot in it.
I have spent an entire round with 3 other guys on discord trying to down a stealth heli on Kaleidoscope Breakthrough with 2 Rao's and 2 Angels and could only manage to scare it up above hack and AA range, so it just hovered up there dropping bombs on the point with no way to stop it.
@Ironhead841 wrote:I gave up on that Rao crap, when you hack them, it literally tells the pilot where you are, and they just come back and bomb you. There is no truly effective way to counter the stealth-helis with a half-decent pilot in it.
I have spent an entire round with 3 other guys on discord trying to down a stealth heli on Kaleidoscope Breakthrough with 2 Rao's and 2 Angels and could only manage to scare it up above hack and AA range, so it just hovered up there dropping bombs on the point with no way to stop it.
100% this, pretty much sums up why they need to address the balance asap.
Thank you agree with you 100%!!!!!
And that's just with the pilot, if they're upgraded to the 30mm and copilot it's much, much worse! So what was EA's response? Increase the cool down on the 30mm, ROTFL, what a joke! Do they even play the game? The developer's are so detached from the actual players, they probably laugh at there own jokes too.
@CantGetRightRao is at most an inconvenience to the pilot, after the hack he comes back and kills the rao while being completely immune to hacks.
As Long as flares gives magical immunity to lock-on while being hacked, air vehicles can safely fly away and wait for stealth/flare recharge.
The stealth heli needs a massive nerf plain and simple, and everyone who’s says otherwise is a pilot themself or cant comprehend basic game balance.
In Addition to the current state it makes the scout and attackchopper basically pointless, there is literally not one single reason to pick anything else than the stealth heli.
I suggested more than one time that flares should not recharge while being in stealth
@CantGetRight wrote:There is a counter to it and his name is Rao. There is also a video here somewhere on how to counter the stealth heli.
yea, Rao is a counter and i usually switch to him when there's a helo around but it's getting old. If there is a halfway decent pilot or a * who won't leave stealth and just keeps bombing i have to spend a whole match keeping him in check, which for the most part means hacking him, having him flare and run away and come back in 15 seconds. i'm getting tired of playing peekabo with these damn stealth helos (i play breakthrough). the helos need a cooldown on stealth (can only stay in so long and can only use so often) or they need to make the stealth helo choose between flares or stealth, not BOTH. if they don't do that, then take the bombs away from them when they are in stealth mode
tl;dr stealth helos need to have one of the following adustments 1) have to choose between stealth/flares 2) limit how long helo can be in stealth and lengthen cooldown 3) NO weapons in stealth mode (bombay doors are open and you are still stealthy? bull *)
@Psubond wrote:yea, Rao is a counter and i usually switch to him when there's a helo around but it's getting old. If there is a halfway decent pilot or a * who won't leave stealth and just keeps bombing i have to spend a whole match keeping him in check, which for the most part means hacking him, having him flare and run away and come back in 15 seconds. i'm getting tired of playing peekabo with these damn stealth helos (i play breakthrough). the helos need a cooldown on stealth (can only stay in so long and can only use so often) or they need to make the stealth helo choose between flares or stealth, not BOTH. if they don't do that, then take the bombs away from them when they are in stealth mode
tl;dr stealth helos need to have one of the following adustments 1) have to choose between stealth/flares 2) limit how long helo can be in stealth and lengthen cooldown 3) NO weapons in stealth mode (bombay doors are open and you are still stealthy? bull *)
This. I don't even bother anymore. You don't really get anything for hacking (I never understood why the hack isn't part of T1) and they just run away anyway. You spend the whole match staring at the sky looking for the helo and half the time dying and not accomplishing anything because you're staring at the sky. It's pointless...
@Echo6Echo wrote:
@Psubond wrote:yea, Rao is a counter and i usually switch to him when there's a helo around but it's getting old. If there is a halfway decent pilot or a * who won't leave stealth and just keeps bombing i have to spend a whole match keeping him in check, which for the most part means hacking him, having him flare and run away and come back in 15 seconds. i'm getting tired of playing peekabo with these damn stealth helos (i play breakthrough). the helos need a cooldown on stealth (can only stay in so long and can only use so often) or they need to make the stealth helo choose between flares or stealth, not BOTH. if they don't do that, then take the bombs away from them when they are in stealth mode
tl;dr stealth helos need to have one of the following adustments 1) have to choose between stealth/flares 2) limit how long helo can be in stealth and lengthen cooldown 3) NO weapons in stealth mode (bombay doors are open and you are still stealthy? bull *)
This. I don't even bother anymore. You don't really get anything for hacking (I never understood why the hack isn't part of T1) and they just run away anyway. You spend the whole match staring at the sky looking for the helo and half the time dying and not accomplishing anything because you're staring at the sky. It's pointless...
Same.
I used Rao for the first time for a few hours to take on choppers and it felt kind of good scaring them away and I may have influenced a couple of transport chopper kills but overall I'm far more effective just spawning with the stinger and catching them after flares have run out.
As a tanker, Rao is just a nuisance who makes me leave the area if I'm close to cover from which C5 attackers can approach me from. So in some respects Rao's hacking just means I'm less likely to die!
@Psubond wrote:
@CantGetRight wrote:There is a counter to it and his name is Rao. There is also a video here somewhere on how to counter the stealth heli.
yea, Rao is a counter and i usually switch to him when there's a helo around but it's getting old. If there is a halfway decent pilot or a * who won't leave stealth and just keeps bombing i have to spend a whole match keeping him in check, which for the most part means hacking him, having him flare and run away and come back in 15 seconds. i'm getting tired of playing peekabo with these damn stealth helos (i play breakthrough). the helos need a cooldown on stealth (can only stay in so long and can only use so often) or they need to make the stealth helo choose between flares or stealth, not BOTH. if they don't do that, then take the bombs away from them when they are in stealth mode
tl;dr stealth helos need to have one of the following adustments 1) have to choose between stealth/flares 2) limit how long helo can be in stealth and lengthen cooldown 3) NO weapons in stealth mode (bombay doors are open and you are still stealthy? bull *)
Well said, I fully agree with your suggestions.👍
