@steirerhubsii wrote:No. They won’t fight each other… most of the time friendly and enemy helos will just farm. AA range needs to be increased in order to prevent high altitude helo farming - especially with attack choppers. Good pilots can dodge AA by using cover.
Exactly right.
And we should not shorten helo respawn time. They already are pampered with kills and XP with their vehicle dominance already in this game. The aircraft to aircraft weapons should be strengthened, so we get more action between them and less farming of vehicle bums just farming infantry 24/7. So we need better ground vehicle against air vehicle abilities. And we need better heli+jet ammunition to take out helis. This way the helis will need to focus more on other vehicles to stay alive then just farming infantry as they principally do now.
You can also add that infantry ought to have more options available to take out those heli infantry farmers than they have now. Its too easy for just a semi decent heli pilot to keep dodging the infantry anti air we have today.
I added Edit 1 to the original post.
Tanks and Helos were gold in previous titles. They were an important asset that if lost could sway the game. Nowadays, with the respawn times so quick and the instant call-ins, they feel devalued.
If a player is using AA, he is not contributing to the ground fight, or paying attention to it. This benefits the other team's ground forces, so even if the helo is not effectively killing anyone, they still are taking the attention away from the other team.
In a recent BT, it felt like I had 4x Lis's and several players with AA and a Wildcat all worried about me flying around in a helo. Most were even in their spawn facing backwards just to try to take me out. It was comical because while my team was easily capping all the points because their ground forces were outnumbered, this group was determined to kill me.
