Reducing the range of default main cannon, removing 40mm load out, so-called promoting air defense role on the battlefield, I mean what would you do as a wildcat driver after these changes?
The only thing left is to camp at uncap and use lock-on missile.
What dice should be doing is to reduce the range of lock-ons and keep the main cannon range unchanged.
@PrecisionWing Anyone who camps with the Wildcat will lose the game for their team.
It's that simple.
I welcome these changes because the Wildcat previously was too weak HP wise, now it might actually survive long enough to fight against an attacking aircraft.
@S3SSioN_SoLTurret HP is most likely what governs your turret getting damaged/disabled, not the actual wildcat HP. So a single nightbird AGM will likely no longer disable the turret. There isn't any mention of attack helicopter TOWs or its gunner, so, that raw damage's not changing. Still 35 damage per TOW (and to other vehicles like the MAV too), plus ~20 from the gunner, nevermind the anti-vehicle rocket pods that are also better against infantry than the anti-personnel pods.
Reminds me of BFV where planes could fire their rockets towards AA turrets while being out of reach for them.
DICE just loves pilots - it’s been that way for years.
Funny how an infantry player can spawn in on a beacon or a team-mate and then get immediately wasted by an enemy, but happens to air and everything gets nerfed.
The tankiest vehicles in the game are airplanes lol. You can hit them with RPGs, railgun shots, tank main gun rounds, a belt of 30/35/40 ammo, or hit them with a 50mm explosive round and they just ignore it and fly away.
So i read nb and jets being pain for wildcat but yet again question is, why arent you using aps sentinels?
And yeah nb deals great amount of damage with 2 first rockets, yet reload time is so slow for next that if you repair cat with just hitting repair, my new reloaded agm wont be enough. And while i get my 4th missile, you have thermal smoke again. I really do understand nb with 20mm, but yet its bad choice going against air. Even infantry tanks 20mm well.
Edit: With small practice, you can deploy aps sentinels under 1-2 second. So, hoovering nb wont do anything in that time.
