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Col_Larsen's avatar
Col_Larsen
New Ace
3 years ago

Little bird needs fixing !

Hi

I'm a infantry guy and never fly jets or planes. I just saw a guy flying the little bird and ha ha ha this one is sooo crazy. First 14 or 16 rockets - they reload one rocket pr second - carry indefinite amount. Flares - even more stupid - when used - the bar goes down and flares are out in several waves and reload of flares is approx 10 sec. So how to kill this thing - stinger is totally useless when a flare is out - no lock. He can fly like crazy away from you - so get a lock - fire stinger and he has flares ready again - that should not be possible !! He should go behind cover to get out of harms way but fly straight line away from you - flares away - lock and stinger speed to chopper - that amount of time should give a hit. 

Also a little bird is a tiny chopper - light weight thing - fly like this + minigun and 16 rockets - ya right !

I liked the way flares worked at launch - what we have now is crazy.

9 Replies

  • Anobix's avatar
    Anobix
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @Col_LarsenThe little bird was even better for the first 4+ months after launch before it got nerfed. Very few people take it compared to the stealth. Either way it can be taken down with a single TGM or Recoiless. Either way I agree that flares need to be fixed [and have needed to be fixed since launch]

  • Dystopique's avatar
    Dystopique
    New Veteran
    3 years ago

    Little bird, helicopter ruin the game : AA is useless. When a helicopter ruins the game, only one thing to afire: quitting the game. You can not do anything.

  • I agree helicopters can be really anoying, but i'm not sure nerfing them is the solution we need.

    The main problem we have now, is a simple and dumb fact. Helicopters and jets are in the same category... Meaning nobody use the jets, and helicopters don't see their principal counter in the sky, they are free to focus on the ground targets.

    IF Dice decide to listen to the comunity... And separate the jets from the helicopters in the spawn menu to have 2 different catégories, helicopters will have a far harder time in the game.

    Maybe Flying vehicules will need a little more adjustments then, but i think having jets in the sky is mandatory to have a more balanced game, before looking for more changes.

  • shanatak's avatar
    shanatak
    3 years ago

    Nightbird need some love. 

    Maybe the guy you saw was a very good pilot and it doesn't mean Nightbird need a nerf.

    Nightbird have a lot of issues:

    Flairs doesn't work everytime , sometimes it seem ths heli have a glue and fly slowly suddenly,  the gravity next to the ground is awfull,  stingers can kill the pilot and make no damage to the heli , a  stealth pilot can just destroy Nightbird with noskill with auto lock missiles the Nightbird can flip in the ground so frequently , when stealth and attack heli shooting you you can't aim anymore and fell you are inside a shaker,  sometimes you just touch a wall and be destroyed., you cannot avoid to be hit sometimes with the third missiles of jets. ....

    Nothing against you., but like you said you never fly in Nightbird. 

  • Well, at this point, you got what you wanted. Its useless against group troops. Only thing its good for is against other aircraft, which it was not meant for....

  • ATFGunr's avatar
    ATFGunr
    Legend
    3 years ago
    @l_Grand_Vizir_l Even then though, only a very good jet pilot would be able to do anything about a very good Nightbird pilot. The jets are pretty useless in general. It should absolutely have its own column, they’ve reduced the number of vehicles too much IMO. I’m not convinced that would help keep the Nightbird in check though. Not every pilot is that great, so as it’s been nerfed the average pilots are punished but the very good ones just keep on keepin’ on.
  • VOLBANKER_PC's avatar
    VOLBANKER_PC
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @R3dsh1ft13 I was gunner with a pretty good pilot yesterday and we absolutely trashed everyone on the server.

    Only problems were when an enemy heli was on our tail which happened a couple of times and where it was a close call that we came out the winner.

    Also their Wildcat, but tbh that was more of an annoyance because it took a bit of time to kill. It wasn’t that much of a theat.

    The pilot went I think 58-5 and I was something like 28-3.
  • S3SSioN_SoL's avatar
    S3SSioN_SoL
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @R3dsh1ft13 You commented on a post from November, there were so many changes to anti-air and aircraft since then...
  • @Col_LarsenI see this post was from November and Air was significantly nerf in the course of this game 

    Vehicles now are insanely ridiculously hard mode and  has become insanely hard  to do any good with it ... a infantry with a LMG will 99% of the time end up with more kill and better ratio than a little bird players beside the top 0.01% of the pilots and even that now with guided missiles, RAO hacks , Countless lock on from Jets , AA , And also easymode Rail gun who camp in spawn and can instakill you from any distance . etc..etc..etc..

    You have NO IDEAS of what you are talking about .. the Rocketpods are now useless and it is required to shoot 100% of them to kill a single infantry and reload so slow that you cant use them effectively .. the only option remaining is minigun and even that you have to be stable and can be M5 rocket or RPG in a fraction of a second while remaining stable enough to kill something .. Have i mentioned the other helicopters trying to kill you ? Oh and transport heli with dedicated repairman and dual minigun ?

    I am sorry buyt DICE have ruined the vehicles wat to much already to favor ignorant infantry players who dont understand at all what it take to be good with any vehicles ..

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