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Anonymou88
Seasoned Scout
4 years ago

The Night Bird Helicopter has been nerfed too much.

I'm a veteran of Battlefield games since Battlefield 1942 and a Ace Pilot. Dice nerfed the Night Bird Helicopter too much in this latest patch. The only way to get kills with it now is by flying extremely low. Here is a video of me going on a 25 Kill Streak and 0 Deaths in 16 Minutes. My team was terrible though and couldn't even capture the first objective. https://youtu.be/UhhGd1o_CVM

Once again that's a 25 Kill Streak and 0 Deaths in less than 16 Minutes. I haven't seen anyone do better in such little time. 😁

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  • Anonymou88's avatar
    Anonymou88
    Seasoned Scout
    4 years ago

    If anything the Wildcat Anti Air is what's overpowered.

  • Why are people complaining about the nightbird being nerfed? The nightbird was never nerfed.

    It was only fixed. Now it's balanced. Thank you devs.

    If any of these PrO PiLoTs are actually gOoD then the fix won't be a problem at all. Though it appears the update has revealed who the real pilots actually are, and who just simply abused something that needed to be fixed.

    Skilless aerial spam is the worst thing in the game by far; with these fixes + everyone already being able to equip AA Stingers (that works completely as intended) the game feels much better now for soldiers on the ground. Give your boi Rao a Stinger and it's game over for hacked helis lol.

    A light transport helicopter shouldn't be a mini Apache. Simple as that.

  • JD_W0LF's avatar
    JD_W0LF
    Seasoned Veteran
    4 years ago

    @Anonymou88 wrote:

    I'm a veteran of Battlefield games since Battlefield 1942 and a Ace Pilot. Dice nerfed the Night Bird Helicopter too much in this latest patch. The only way to get kills with it now is by flying extremely low. Here is a video of me going on a 25 Kill Streak and 0 Deaths in 16 Minutes. My team was terrible though and couldn't even capture the first objective. https://youtu.be/UhhGd1o_CVM

    Once again that's a 25 Kill Streak and 0 Deaths in less than 16 Minutes. I haven't seen anyone do better in such little time. 😁


    I'm sorry but how is going 25-0 in a nightbird proving that it's been nerfed too much? As per usual, air vehicles in a BF game can just farm infantry, and so long as they're "smart enough" to just zoom away and get free regen of ammo and flares, can't be stopped. Why Dice decided to go back to free regen of ammo and flares in the air is beyond me. Maybe all infantry should just regen ammo to try and make it fair? No? We don't like that? Then why do the vehicles have this?

  • Anonymou88's avatar
    Anonymou88
    Seasoned Scout
    4 years ago

    First of all I was making a point that in order to get kills at all I had to fly so low to the ground. Secondly there's always players dropping ammo crates so technically you already have ammo Regen for everything. It's not like it's hard to pick up ammo.

  • JD_W0LF's avatar
    JD_W0LF
    Seasoned Veteran
    4 years ago

    @Anonymou88 wrote:

    First of all I was making a point that in order to get kills at all I had to fly so low to the ground. Secondly there's always players dropping ammo crates so technically you already have ammo Regen for everything. It's not like it's hard to pick up ammo.


    God forbid pilots have to put themselves at risk for kills like everyone else. I think the nerf was good. Pilots like yourself are still getting tons of free kills and getting away with it, so they definitely didn't go too far.

  • Anonymou88's avatar
    Anonymou88
    Seasoned Scout
    4 years ago

    They did go too far because the damage of all cannons on the Helicopters has been nerfed to the point where they're completely useless so I have to resort to using missiles instead. Bad players like yourself are just crying about every little thing that kills them because you think it will get Dice to nerf whatever you don't like. Y'all need to stop conspiring together. Stop trying to control the state of the game.

  • Man goes 25 - 0 and complains about it.

    Why shouldn’t u have to use your ace pilot skills now to get those streaks going. 

    Don’t think u will find any soldiers on the ground (not in vehicles) getting a streak like that, so you still have a massive advantage. 

  • Nutcrusherr's avatar
    Nutcrusherr
    Rising Veteran
    4 years ago
    @TrickiestCOL Not to mention that we still suffer from rubberbanding when getting shot from helis and tanks, making them even more overpowered cos you cant rly run away.
  • emerson1975's avatar
    emerson1975
    4 years ago

    Absolutely bewildered people think the little bird isn’t strong enough!

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