Your right, this is an unpopular opinion. I have put maybe 40 hours in playing conquest now and can say with confidence two good helicopter pilots on one team can carry any game, any map. This is not right - 2 people in helicopters should not be able to carry a game of 128 people. With the extremely large map size, its not uncommon to see these experienced pilots out maneuvering 10 people with AA missiles and ducking behind large sky scrapers or going out of range to avoid to only come back 30 seconds later after their auto repair to do the same kill farm on a cluster of people holding a high point with extremely limited cover. I dont think they nerfed the helicopters enough, they are the true plague of this game. Not only is the damage helicopters do to infantry too high, so is the damage done to light vehicles. Two shots from a nightbird taking out a hovercraft/LATV4 as of today, with hovercrafts having nothing to counter with - this is not balanced. I hope DICE nerfs helicopters more, or makes it so flares last less time or something to counter them as infantry with better.
@NoonsYo Im intrigued as someone who has both piloted helis a lot and also shot many down as infantry with AA rockets what exactly youre struggling with. You force them to flare and run off repeatedly or you force flare then shoot them down if they stick around.
The range of AA missiles is much further than most effective weapons fire from a Heli - If youre using cover and have jets/other helis on your team going after them they shouldnt be able to get within range to do more than pop a few shots before taking off and having to hide.
Also you mean they do things that heli's do and are intended to do if not properly deterred? Hovercraft have literally nothing on a heli - they're a transport vehicle and should be so - they're not a tank.
2 shots on a light infantry vehicle should not destroy the vehicle that quick, the damage is too high.
Yeah, flare is forced, they duck and cover, come back 30 seconds later to do it again. Helicopters are overpowered
@NoonsYo Did you consider that you likely got hit by a TOW missile? The same thing that will nearly one shot a humvee too? A weapon that is quite difficult to use properly and requires you to be super exposed for long periods of time.
What im getting from this is that you've never piloted a helio if you think that they're hard to deter as they're really not - all you need is 2-3 people with AA rockets in the middle or front of an objective.
Any pilot right now is seething. the nerf was wayyyy too much. It takes a couple people with AA rockets or 1 AA vehicle to knock a nightbird out. One recoiless round and it's done. It sounds like your entire team ignored the deaths and cause and kept running on objectives rather than taking it out. You can blame the helo for crappy team.
If you're flying the Nightbird right, keeping low, darting in and out, you will never get locked...The thing is broken as *, and the Bolte is even worse.
The problem is how easy it is to lock and destroy the attack helicopters which are just big flying stinger sponges.
It is obvious when you look at what good players (or high level) do with the Nightbird and the Bolte, they are still the "meta" for a reason.
