For air v air, the stealth gunner seat is extremely important.
One instance I experienced, I'd put the enemy stealth hele on 5% remaining HP when he'd finally managed to elevate & get close enough to me - I was about 65% left from his gunner's shooting at that time. He got an EMP on me. I died before the EMP ended to their combined firing, helpless and depressed to lose a sure victory just because they had a gunner and I didn't.
I don't think they're OP though - being a frequent flier that has numerous times gotten over 100 kills with them, it's certainly easy when you're ignored - but as soon as they start giving you the due attention, there's nothing you can do all game. Lets not forget that vehicles are supposed to be superior to infantry, however in BF2042 one infantry is viably a perfect counter...
The apache is equally capable of vehicle destruction; anti-vehicle rockets hurt. They can 1:1 stealths and win.
The only imbalance is the 30mm's slow overheat. That should be a gunner weapon. HMG's are a poor design, it should offer a minigun option.
Hele's should only be nerfed if RAO is also. It's ridiculous how long his hack lasts on all vehicles compared to its cooldown and time to activate... while it's currently justified against skilled pilots, that's extreme overkill vs tanks etc.
@0_Katsui wrote:Lets not forget that vehicles are supposed to be superior to infantry, however in BF2042 one infantry is viably a perfect counter...
Hm? Where is this information from? Did any Dev gave you these information? Is this written somewhere? Just because you think, this should be the case, does not mean, it is a "rule". If anything is superior to something else, it is called "op". And what is this perfect counter? I mean, the stealth helicopter can kill my as an infantry with three, not so accurate shots with the 30mm canon in one second... so who is the specialist, who can kill the stealth helicopter without aiming in one second?
Ridiculous to compare these two things. Just fly above 200m, and Rao can't do anything. Pop the flares when he hacks you and fly away.... use the visual indicator, when he hacks you, fly away, come back and kill him! Most of the time, he is by foot, so the 10 seconds until your flares are ready again, he will be most likely at the same position.
If Rao is the perfect counter, everybody would play him. The only thing he is doing, is to stress some bad pilots. It brings no satisfaction for the Rao player, he does not get kills and the biggest part, his ability is so boring, that it just makes no fun to play him.
