Unbalanced helicopter OP

Late to reply, but any heli that takes more than one direct hit from a stinger to take down is OP...PERIOD.

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@Psubond wrote:

a lot of helo pilots will flare when they get the notification they are being hacked (before hack finishes) so they don't get smacked with the missile(s) that are inevitably coming after the hack.  gives them time to run

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Although in the post-3.2 world there is no missile coming from Rao and it is highly doubtful that he has 2 players working with him (an Angel and Support) and even those 3 won’t be enough to take down a good pilot, it will take 4th with a launcher as well and even that is not a match for a really good pilot.

Helo pilots will never be happy if someone is shooting back at them

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@Man_iLoveFishing wrote:
@MiklaDfarBut infantry taking 3 direct hits from 127mm rockets is okay? Or from 30mm gun 5 hits.

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Yes, yes it is. Games are best when they are well balanced, and at their worst when they try to be too realistic.

If you just want to farm Infantry, isn't there a single player game that will allow you to do that? How is one guy going 100-1 every single round fun for everyone else? The game shouldn't be centered around air vehicles, it's just ONE part of the game.

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@Man_iLoveFishing wrote:
@RaginSamif someone goes 100:1 with helo is not balances fault, it's your team. Remember, both sides have almost same vehicles and same infantry player choices. There are games when you can't simply enter the field due to spam of all sorts of rockets, tell me how's that fun for air? It's a bit silly that one wants to be equal against mass destruction vehicle with a lockon that can be everywhere and anytime. And wait, you can, use Liss which is skill based.

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We get it, you probably main the Nightbird or whatever. 

I can have a great game with a Tank or as an Infantry player, but I’m never going to go 100-1 in a normal AOW round. These pilots were doing it consistently every single round! That is a balancing issue, no way around it. 

It’s not fair if one team gets all the “pro” pilots while the other gets a team full of infantry mains. 

Helicopters have way too many advantages that aren’t grounded in any semblance of reality. Air vehicles are very fragile in real life, but in 2042 the Condor and Hind are literal tanks. They can go wherever they want, they have a get out of jail free card, they can transport infantry, they have a lot of lethality, and can be repaired within.

Again, the game is NOT Battle Helicopters, it’s Battlefield. Vehicles are an integral part of the game, but they most definitely aren’t supposed to be everything. 

If we get realistic damage from helis on infantry, then why not from infantry weapons?

A .50 cal rifle anti-material-rifle (NTW-50) should be able to down a heli, with a well-placed shot to the engine (at least the little-bird).

I've played all BF games, and I have to agree with OP, together with BF3, BF2042 has a horrible airvehicle-ground balance.