@xpaydayx Ok, you stand by your "Rao is OP". Without any arguments. Hard to discuss on this basis.
Rao ia at the moment the only counter to the stealth helicopter, except Liz rockets as infantry. Rao's hack only disables the counter measures (you can use it before getting hacked) and to shoot. You can just fly away, nobody can do anything against it, then come back or just at another point, where no Rao is present. On the other side, the stealth helicopter can onehit kill groups of people through bombs and 30mm canon. If Rao is not present, it is very hard to counter it (hard to hit with M5), even harder, when you are getting one shot.
Additional, while Rao is hacking, he is defenseless against everything.
If Rao would be OP, I would expect high vehicle kill numbers (20 kills per round), or that helicopters are completely useless the round he is present. But that is not the case. More likely, there are stealth helicopter pilots with massive kill count. Also not the majority, but while it is possible for the pilots to get insane stats, for Rao, it is not (not because of his hacking).
So if Rao's hacking would be nerfed (should be the case, if it is OP), what would then the counter to stealth helicopters? Everybody has to rely on luck, by firing the M5 to kill it? And if Liz is the argument, everybody has to be forced to play her, just to do anything?
For me the fact is, if something has such a strong defense, as the stealth helicopter, it need weaknesses, other helicopters don't have. The 30mm canon is very strong, so are the bombs. There is no disadvantage... For example no flares or that it get killed by one rocket, instead of two. And to stay at the topic...
To make the Soflam work against stealth helicopter is a great idea, it supports teamplay and is a counter, every class can use, so you are not forced to play Liz or Rao.
@xpaydayx you are right, it doesn't have to get kills to be too strong. Fine tuning is always good. I just don't see, why it is OP, maybe you could underlay your words with some arguments. I see, that Roa's ability is strong against helicopters, but not so strong against the stealth helicopter. And what would your solution or change to Rao's OP'ness? Shorter range, shorter duration, delete the whole character? And yes, the 30mm cannon should be the same as the one on the other helicopters... Or even weaker, because, as I said, when the helicopter has such a strong defense, it needs to get some kind of weakness, at the moment it is just superior to the hokum and apache in every way.
Nerf the only operator able to do something against the stealth helis? Are you insane?
If the stealth heli player is good he will use his flares to counter the hack, disappear behind some cover and come back to kill the Rao.
Today I played Rao in breakthrough defense and the enemy heli pilot ripped us a new one because he did what I just explained.
Before I left out of frustration he was 33 to 0 and I died like 6 times to him, even though I hacked him at every opportunity.
Rao is in a good spot balance-wise, but the helis are just insane OP.
Nerf the bombs, nerf the 30mm and make the SOFLAM work. Boom, problem solved...
