@StormtrooperDanI consider myself to be an above average pilot, and I can say that the 30mm cannons on the Stealth Helis are not broken. You need to actually aim at your target to deal damage. The 30mm cannons on the bolt pre-nerf had splash damage galore, the 30 mm cannons of the stealth helis do not have that ridiculous splash damage albeit they still deal an acceptable amount of splash damage.
The 50.cal guns shred infantry but you need to be accurate. That's the trade off, quick killings versus area denial.
I will say though it needs to overheat faster, just like almost every cannon, specialist explosives and miniguns in the game.
The Stealth Chopper 30mm cannons outperforms any other helicopter weapon at killing infantry (besides the 50mm that's already going to be nerfed). Better than any Nightbird weapon: minigun, 20mm cannon or the Anti-Personal Rocket Packs. Way better than 30mm cannon of the Attack Helicopter, which has always been mediocre.
30mm cannon does not require any careful aim at all vs the minigun.
@Bolvard I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of the cannons behave differently on different vehicles, the 50mm Cannon on the Recon behaves very differently from the 50mm Cannon the Hind/Condor, both in 1.0.0 and 1.1.0. Arguing that the Cannon's should behave consistently across the different vehicles is just asking for imbalances.
The Bolte is now the equivalent of hotdog water.
If you've flown the stealth heli against other helis then you would know, the overheat speed is within acceptable limits, needing only a minor nerf, actually requiring a gunner to be present to kill an enemy heli. You need to factor in these scenarios because just "making it overheat faster" can completely break it's purpose.
Also, it's called splash damage for a reason? The 30mm is an explosive round is it not? From what I noticed, the 50.cal kills infantry way faster but you need to be accurate, the 30mm is just a spray and pray, if you're not shooting at an enemy it's not gonna magically get you kills, like how the Bolte was, literally anyone can use a Bolte, the stealth chopper actually requires skill to fly, you place a Rao anywhere near the stealth chopper and suddenly the 30mm becomes a 0mm, that was seldom possible with the Bolte because seldom do people use SOFLAMs on it, so locking on to it was never really possible with the Recoilless, so drivers would just retreat when hacked which is better than nothing, and honestly is the equivalent scenario to seeing a sniper glint as infantry, you're not gonna stay where the glint can see you.
@S3SSioN_SoLThats a lot of giberish
First of all, transport vehicles shouldnt have a 30mm or 50mm to Beginn with since it is not theyr purpose to actively hunt infantry and/or vehicles with it.
It is theyr purpose to transport your Team to a location and/or act as a mobile spawnpoint.
Second of all, a 50mm doesn’t magically behave different, no matter where it is build in or mounted.
Either the 50mm or 30mm perform the same across the Game, no matter the vehicle, or just remove it entirely.
Although this Game has so little content I’m mostly against removing Weapon's.
The 30mm on the stealth Heli as of now requires zero skill to rack up kills nor does the bombs in stealthmode since they drop where your aiming at, they don’t take velocity of the vehicle into effect, making it super easy to use.
atleast they can be countered by irish‘ sentinel
The only thing that takes skill to use is on the Gunnerseat with the suppressed hmg and the EMP dart to take out strategicall Armor or Assets from the enemy.
