Thoughts from 'the dark side' as an aircraft pilot

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@X-Sunslayer-X wrote:

After having skimmed through this thread I can say a few things.

1. If a team of either 32 or 64 players is willingly ignoring an Attack-Heli to play as it likes then they deserve to be farmed without mercy or respite. The average BF player-base has entirely adopted the idea of "this is a teamplay game so someone else will deal with it its not my job" and it is time for either of two things to happen. These players remain crop to be farmed by better players or they get their act together and start thinking and breathing at the same time. This is not a BR where everyone plays for themselves, this is not COD where the average idea of "teammates" stops at the fact that you just can't shoot them dead.
2. 2042 has by far some of the most prolific ways of dealing with any Aircraft with the sole exception being the former "Transport helis" now called Gunships.
   1. Use the Wildcat with either 30mm or 35mm cannons to shread most anything as long as you are not letting the guns overheat like a *. Additionally do not rely on the lock-on AA missiles. They are a waste of your time and don't forget to add the Flak pod to your loadout as additional DMG to be dealt to flying enemies
   2. LATV and the hovercraft have access to the 20mm Flak gun so equip it and call them in and pounce on unsuspecting vehicles. Feel free to move the vehicle to stay unpredictable.
   3. The MAV has the 50mm that deals a truckload of DMG to vehicles in general while being the most heavily armed vehicle in the game. Additionally, the MAV has the 40mm canister pod that can snipe pilots out of the Nightbird if you hit the windshield and also deals respectable DMG out at ranges beyond 70m if you can lead enough.
   4. The Brawler has access to the APDS dealing a lot of DMG to any vehicle as well as the 20mm Flak on top of having APS nullifying any rockets shot by choppers or the 50mm
   5. Tanks can oneshot any heli and plane with the exception being the "Gunships". It's not difficult once you get the hang of it. Every time I play 2042 I get at the very least 2-4 Helis with the MBTs
   6. Use the TOR. If you can not kill a heli with the TOR at range then there is sadly nothing I can do for you it's brain-dead easy and I am pretty sure my grandmother can do it if I explain it to her once.
3. Use the M5 with a bit of practice you can learn to use the launcher to dumbfire at choppers especially less skilled pilots who hover a lot and will die like flies to that

Should you still get farmed by a heli after all that advice I again regret to inform you that there is nothing anyone can do to help you.

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I like how you say there we have the "most prolific ways" of dealing with Aircraft and then list 6 ways that all require other vehicles.  Including saying that G2A lock on missiles are useless (unlike A2G missiles from aircraft), suggest using APDS on aircraft(!?).  With civilian vehicles now being mostly removed, most other vehicles are usually unavailable anyway - so you want to me to waste half the round in the deploy screen waiting for a vehicle to become available?  If the vehicles are so great, they won't respawn for ages! 😉

If only there was an infantry class that could deal with vehicles effectively and not have to rely on other vehicles to do it - I dunno - we called it "engineer" or something....

So to sum up I either have to wait for another vehicle to become available, or hope that some of the pilots are total noobs and just hover in front of me?  Otherwise, get farmed......

So thanks, but mostly useless advice there...