I like where stingers are at the moment. I do not want to return to BF3 Armored Kill expansion days of helis being invincible flying tanks. Counter balance is good, use the terrain to break the lock.
Aasuming that a heli sitting behind stuff is fun (it isn't), and that there's terrain to really use (there wasn't) the stingers lock way too fast to do that in the first place.
Stingers need a much longer lock on time, helicopters need a stock of flares to counter for more than the first missile fired. Or we could go back to bc2 where you had to manually guide the rocket it in to get a hit. Ya know, aiming could be a thing. Bf3 needed another class to paint the target to allow lock-ons. The little deployable auto paint thing was annoying for a chopper but you could spot the red glare and try to get it before it was too much of a problem.
Point is stingers are way too powerful. Frankly choppers should be hard to kill and tanks should be hard to kill. Vehicles are a big part of battlefield and if they're crap then they're just there to die and be a scenic fireball. Tanks they got right, jets feel close, helis are absolute dogs*** right now.
If you don't like vehicles maybe just go back to call of duty.
This seems more of a "if you can't play vehicles you should go back to COD" thread than the other way around.
Perfect example is Ukraine Vs the Russian invaders. Man-Portable Anti-vehicle technology is insane right now. Russian vehicles are turned into scrap all day.
Google jackfrags and watch him and Tommyrage in the helicopter released 11th August. That's how you do it.
