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@Man_iLoveFishing "Fun I deserve"
That right there sums up your argument. You seem to believe it takes skill to shred enemy Jets in less than 2 seconds? Or melt enemy armor with ease, with no regard for danger from lock-ons or enemy TGM's because the crazy maneuverability allows you to dodge all of that with ease. Flares on cool down? Just fly low! Below radar offers unparalleled protection which as a result of the Nightbird's agility, it can easily take advantage of, guaranteeing its survival.
I see people complain about the Tor and I just can't understand why they complain about it. The only map where the Tor is an issue is Hourglass which is soon to be reworked. Furthermore, when the Tor camps they lose the game. Simple really.
You need to examine the "balance" holistically, I have a feeling the only reason why you don't like the Tor is because it can end your 40+ killsteaks from across the map. What if I told you, it takes as much skill to do that as it does to fly the Nightbird lmao, because beyond that the hundreds of hours you reference is just reinforcement for granular precision and consistency just like any other skill. The Nightbird is without a doubt, the easiest the aircraft to fly for many reasons. If anything about the Nightbird gets nerfed, I doubt it will ruin your fun because as I mentioned before, those hundreds of hours are not going to magically disappear, all it means is that the Nightbird will fit within its role better.
- Man_iLoveFishing2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@S3SSioN_SoLAre you serious now? This is exactly why we get bad balance of yous. Not understanding tor right? That can reach you from everywhere without any warnings. Don't even bring glint here, I see that glint after my death. And then you complain about bird killing you cause you come in with air radars and then fly around me like flat leaf and wondering why bird obliviates you? Dude please. If you can't kill bird, you have SAME exact vehicle to counter me. Also I've tried jets and it is sweaty fight between bird but I don't fly close to it for exact reason, meanwhile you want to get that bird so badly that you put yourself in front of bitd as "easy target". Also people do mistakes coming straight at me meanwhile jets have advantage for skybox ceiling and don't anticipate. Never gonna say it's easy, it does require skill for sure but not impossible, just use ur vehicle right... You have all that skybox and speed, bigger problem for you is wildcat with lockons.
Edit: About spawncamping, tor is the reason of spawncamping.
Edit: There is nothing to nerf about it, it has miniguns that does what they do. Making my game harder and easier for you by nerfing is not solution. Jet does very good damage and I heard it's getting 30mm buff? Try that. Oh and rocket pods.
Edit: dodge TGM with ease? TGM has big delay, you can't dodge stuff that isn't actually there.
- YourLocalPIumber2 years agoSeasoned Ace@S3SSioN_SoL It's so funny watching both sides complain when I actually play both sides and you don't.
One is saying NB is OP and should get nerfed, other is crying that it doesn't matter and it takes skill.
I'll give you my inside as a top 1% infantry player and a decent Nightbird pilot with 8k kills.
Yes, it actually takes a lot of practice and skill if you want to stay alive for more than 20 kills. And it should be this way. Nightbird is a high risk high reward vehicle. Everything tends to kill your pilot - Ranger, Boris turrets and any random gunfire since cockpit provides 0 protection.
You should be able to avoid Lissiles because they were never intended to be an AA rockets. Giving them even more agility will permanently delete tanks from the game because you won't be able to hide.
Below radar doesn't work on Stingers. And you become easy prey for M5 users.
Saying NB doesn't takes any skills means you never flew in it and don't know what you're talking about.
That said, it indeed has too much firepower. Autocannons and rockets that take no skill and AGMs that allow you solo tanks.
My opinion - autocannons and pods should be removed.
Change AGMs to do more damage, but reduce to 1 from 2. Otherwise it's too easy to solo tanks.
Leave miniguns as they are. They do indeed require a lot of practice to aim. If someone is able to kill you from really far away or up close, that gamer has some skill. - S3SSioN_SoL2 years agoSeasoned Ace@Man_iLoveFishing That's precisely why the Tor is also balanced, you see a Tor, your own Tor can kill it.
The same can't quite be said about a Nightbird versus a Nightbird. Those hundreds of hours make all the difference in such a matchup. That is not something that should be punished. But for all the reasons mentioned earlier, the Nightbird is fundamentally imbalanced. - S3SSioN_SoL2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@UP_LordPlumberThe Nightbird is the easiest vehicle to fly in the game. The only time people will have an issue flying it is when trying to land it, because it can't land consistently.
When I say fly, I refer to the mechanics involved with flying. When I say attack or reference firepower, I am referring to its ability to put out damage.Also, the idea that it requires hours upon hours to aim with it is once again supplanted by the fact that once you hover, aiming is easy.
- Man_iLoveFishing2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@S3SSioN_SoLTor is still issue, I can go kill unskilled tor. Guy that knows proper order of using counters can be actually difficult and almost unkillable, birds agms doesn't work like jets that you can pull 2 same time. They have delay, me hovering around enemy spawn killing tor is not my objective, that's causing me to spawnkill. But problem is, I'm no match for it when other vehicles spawn there.
Edit: Lmfao, Casper drone vs bird? Man, stop. 😂
- S3SSioN_SoL2 years agoSeasoned Ace@Man_iLoveFishing That's not a problem that's balance showing it self. You can't hover around the enemy base and expect not to die there.
- Man_iLoveFishing2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@S3SSioN_SoLboy, I wish to play against you and me sitting in tor. You should realize, tor is biggest problem in this game. That is untouchable thing and can just sit there watching Netflix.
- S3SSioN_SoL2 years agoSeasoned Ace@Man_iLoveFishing But it's really not though. It feels like only people who spend their time sweating have an issue with the Tor. lmao.
I said it before in a separate more relevant post, the Tor needs to have its angle of attack reduced to show that it is meant for land vehicle targets, sure it can still shoot aircraft, but it should not be as easy.
I can't wait for stationary AA Turrets, then that might be the end of the issues. Only Pilots against Pilots will have issues with the Nightbird's clear advantage regarding aircraft. - S3SSioN_SoL2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@Man_iLoveFishingAlso, feel free to make a separate post to voice your feedback about the Tor. I won't be commenting further in this thread about the Tor. That is one of the points of the forum at the end of the day, to offer feedback from our experience playing the video game.
- Man_iLoveFishing2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@S3SSioN_SoLYou brought tor into conv. Good day.
Edit: I did, my bad.
- S3SSioN_SoL2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@Man_iLoveFishing wrote:@S3SSioN_SoLYou brought tor into conv. Good day.
Edit: I did, my bad.
All is fine, we're just passionate about our video game at the end of the day. - YourLocalPIumber2 years agoSeasoned Ace@S3SSioN_SoL Alright then. If you say it's easy, prove it. Go into any pvp mode and achieve 40 kill streak without killing bots
- S3SSioN_SoL2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@S3SSioN_SoLAlright then. If you say it's easy, prove it. Go into any pvp mode and achieve 40 kill streak without killing botsAnd this is why... if you read my initial post, you would see I mention telemetry and statistics. Calling for the balancing of a vehicle such as in the case of the Nightbird being able to shred a Jet in 2 seconds, I think is reasonable, but it should not happen just because I say so, it should happen based on the data DICE has. If one player is getting 60 kills out of the rest, then they are an outlier, someone who has probably dedicated most of their time playing to flying said aircraft, again there's nothing wrong with being exceptionally skilled at one facet of a Battlefield game.
The problem comes in where the Nightbird can eat a direct recoilless with zero consequences. This is the main point of my complaints about the Nightbird and has been so in my prior posts about it as well, its been a bugged vehicle for a very long time. And its all these bugs which give it an advantage which it should not have. At the end of the day, DICE must address these bugs. It's a bit like that bug where a tank shell hits an aircraft but does zero damage. They should rename the aircraft to Nightbug to justify its existence.
- YourLocalPIumber2 years agoSeasoned Ace@S3SSioN_SoL I'm writing this based on your other replies such as
" You want to fly a balanced aircraft? Fly the attack chopper. You want to go on a 50 killstreak? Fly the nightbird."
"It weird how Nightbird mains believe it takes hundreds of hours to fly an overpowered vehicle."
"That right there sums up your argument. You seem to believe it takes skill to shred enemy Jets in less than 2 seconds? Or melt enemy armor with ease, with no regard for danger from lock-ons or enemy TGM's because the crazy maneuverability allows you to dodge all of that with ease. Flares on cool down? Just fly low! Below radar offers unparalleled protection which as a result of the Nightbird's agility, it can easily take advantage of, guaranteeing its survival."
You're the one here talking about Nightbird as if it's some kind of unstoppable God mode machine that ANYONE can use at any time. So please, prove it.
But now you're saying that " If one player is getting 60 kills out of the rest, then they are an outlier, someone who has probably dedicated most of their time playing to flying said aircraft"
But before that you were chastising @Man_iLoveFishing" for dedicating him time to Nightbird and saying that it "ruins your time".
So do we actually deserve to go on high killstreaks if we dedicate hundreds of hours or not? Or you still believe anyone can jump in and go on a 40+ streak just like that? - S3SSioN_SoL2 years agoSeasoned Ace@UP_LordPlumber I never once said "ruins my time", I believe you are misquoting me, when someone else said "fun I deserve". I might be wrong here but I don't quite care enough to scrutinize every post I've typed when you fail to acknowledge the existence of "dodges missiles bug".
And yes, I do believe it is an unstoppable God mode machine in the hands of a skilled pilot who flies no other aircraft like it. That is a nice way of putting it.
I honestly went back and read what I wrote and I must say, I'm not too sure where you got the idea that I was saying their skill must be punished.
That is quite a weird question to ask, to be honest, lets apply the same logic to other parts of the game, if you take a Pro and throw them into a infantry only server, you'd expect them to do rather well right. Because it's a scenario where everyone is on the same footing and the Pro is undeniably skilled to know every trick in the book. Now, if you take the same scenario but give the enemies a shield that blocks every 2nd or 3rd bullet, it would probably become quite annoying for the Pro. The reality of the Nightbird is the complete opposite where as, the Pro pilot blocks every 2nd missile without needing flares by virtue of a bug.
I hope my logic is apparent, I honestly can't really explain any better without asking that you search up the old threads where someone generously posted videos depicting the many issues they encountered with the Nightbird.
You seem to have a fixation that I can't go on killstreaks with the Nightbird for some reason? There's no way I can prove this to you because I don't record entire lengths of my gameplay, I'm sure there's plenty of YouTube videos where Pro pilots can depict to you what 40+ killstreak looks like. I fail to see the relevance to be honest as most of my feedback is in reference to the firepower between all aircraft, holistically. - S3SSioN_SoL2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@S3SSioN_SoLwrote:
You need to examine the "balance" holistically, I have a feeling the only reason why you don't like the Tor is because it can end your 40+ killsteaks from across the map. What if I told you, it takes as much skill to do that as it does to fly the Nightbird lmao, because beyond that the hundreds of hours you reference is just reinforcement for granular precision and consistency just like any other skill. The Nightbird is without a doubt, the easiest the aircraft to fly for many reasons. If anything about the Nightbird gets nerfed, I doubt it will ruin your fun because as I mentioned before, those hundreds of hours are not going to magically disappear, all it means is that the Nightbird will fit within its role better.Refer to the above.
Take note, when I say fly, I refer to the mechanics of flying the aircraft, not its ability to engage targets, that would require even more paragraphs talking about its inherent agility and precision required. I could have clarified this better.
I implore you to try destroy a Nightbird that knows what they're doing, that knows to fly directly above an AA after hitting it with an AGM. That knows to look for Blasco's gadget when it can't lock on. It will be tough. Almost too tough. One could argue, that it's kinda OP. 🙂
- YourLocalPIumber2 years agoSeasoned Ace@S3SSioN_SoL Again, this is top % of pilots who play like that. If they know where to position themselves to avoid danger, shouldn't they be rewarded for it?
I can make the same example in infantry gameplay with certain gadgets/classes that allow players to achieve high results after learning specific mechanics to give me an advantage. Should these people also be forbidden from playing the game?
Lets say I play Falck with infinite HP regain and ammo, I've learned a certain weapon for its fullest potential and now can engage targets at long distances because of recoil control and muscle memory.
I've mastered movement mechanics i.e slide canceling and weaving, learned all cover position and use it to my advantage over other blueberries.
Now does that make my loadout OP that gives me an unfair advantage, or my time and skill I've earned through playing the game and learning its mechanics?
I've no stranger to dropping 80+ conquest games on foot using most primary weapons available in game. Does that make the entire game "kinda op"? Because try fighting me 1 v 1 and I guarantee you I will win. - Shibiwan2 years agoRising Veteran
@Man_iLoveFishing wrote:@S3SSioN_SoLTor is still issue, I can go kill unskilled tor. Guy that knows proper order of using counters can be actually difficult and almost unkillable, birds agms doesn't work like jets that you can pull 2 same time. They have delay, me hovering around enemy spawn killing tor is not my objective, that's causing me to spawnkill. But problem is, I'm no match for it when other vehicles spawn there.
Edit: Lmfao, Casper drone vs bird? Man, stop. 😂
Nightbird can kill a TOR in under 20 seconds. Nightbird is OP
Case closed.
- YourLocalPIumber2 years agoSeasoned Ace@Shibiwan Teach me senpai
- VOLBANKER_PC2 years agoSeasoned Ace
Nightbird is incredibly fast and agile.
It makes no sense whatsoever to compare it’s movement ability with infantry slide etc.
- 2 years ago
@S3SSioN_SoL wrote:From your posts, I see you are an avid fighter pilot. So you complain about how quickly the night bird destroys you, but you are not a bit ashamed to disassemble attack helicopters in one go. You like it when your radar missiles are not dropped by traps. When playing an attack helicopter on a jet, you need 3 hits of 127mm in an insanely small flat hitbox, while with a light helicopter, 2 are enough, is this normal ? That is why there should be a rescue against you in the form of the Night Bird so that everything is not so sweet for you.
It is not possible to play normally in BF2042 on an attack helicopter because of the lethal fighters, the G-84 flying from everywhere and the TOR railgun waiting in the bushes.
Thanks to DICE for at least not nerfing NightBird.
And the TOR railgun can be destroyed in 20 seconds. It is a fact. - YourLocalPIumber2 years agoSeasoned Ace
@AlkaniusRUSSince when am I an "Avid fighter" pilot? I ave more kills in a Nightbird than in both jets, both attack choppers and stealth choppers combined
Also what the hell are you talking about in your post? Jumping from point to point. Impossible to follow it
- 2 years ago
@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@ShibiwanTeach me senpaiI agree, I didn't post well. I wanted to confirm to you that TOR can be destroyed in 20 seconds. and put you in a copy of the post