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.
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.
