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.
Its not a tow missle LOL. Its the nightbird diving on point while flaring and destroying everything to wait for cooldown to come back and do it again. TOO OVERPOWERED, how you can deny it is a joke to me - like all the other broken things....you just want easy kills maybe?
@NoonsYo wrote: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
And 3 guided lock on missiles with hardly any delay between each lock destroys a tank which happened to me on Oribital yesterday.
That's broken balance.
@Tank2042Man You clearly havent flown Heli either, as its like 15 seconds between each ATG missile minimum, theres no "with hardly any delay"
