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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@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!
