Escalation changes is bad
The best point of escalation was a big amount of vehicles, and option for anyone to try heli or jet. With vehicles spawn timer adjustments, its a 8 minut meat grinder, and a single transport heli do...
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The guided munitions was just a bad idea, and should be removed. The attack helo needs to do a bit less damage with the spampods as well, because as soon as you get a person just a touch skilled, they wreck all ground vehicles.
We need to get back to a game that focuses more on teamwork than one man army designs. The tanks can do it all, the helos... well, they're probably supposed to be strong but they gave every Engi 5 rockets to spam and then made the SMG completely broken so everyone is an engi. Jets... Well, you know, they exist.
It is a problem all across the board. Honestly, I think it's pretty close to balanced, so good on Dice for not completely messing the vehicles up. More space to fly, make jets suck less, and just do some numbers work. And get rid of guided munitions on ground vehicles (minus AA).
IFV needs a guided munition alternative (It's too versatile now). Laser designation is not as universal (since the gunner cannot designate a point in space to allow demolition, unlike snipers' designators) and can be countered by smokes. Dumbs are just bad in all scenarios — no angle of attack, low damage, almost no splash, ridiculously low demolition power.
As for choppers: due to low mobility of these helis , it's almost impossible to do 2 row attacks in quick succession - almost guaranteed to be killed on turn. Due to the pods dispersion its hard to land them precisely (loking on target makes you point down that forces you to obtain speed that makes aiming much harder and reduces time window to react and adjust).
> Opinion may be biased due to my primary experience with heavy pods. Used exclusively for bigger splash and 2 hit splash kills of infantry. Cannot use aim guided - too big speed forces my aim point to be past the target the moment of hit - therefore miss. Light pods are nice, but require more accuracy than I have (or less latency).
> I'm not using the "heavy warheads" upgrade, since survivability is much more required.
It's okay if chopper cannot solo the tank in one strafe. (with gunner included)
It's not okay that on the second strafe heli is either dead, or the tank is already fully recovered (heavy plating + self-repair + 3rd stage of combat engineer works most times for me as a tank driver).
Due to the limit of a single reload, imho, the heli needs to be able to solo tank in 2 strafes without a gunner (assuming 80-90% accuracy).
Gunners laser guided missile (that should be also an AIM) and gun can offset the situation a lot. thats true and thats okay.
It's seems to be possible to one strafe the tank. (Maybe tank was without reinforce plating) Hit with aim guided from heli, laser guided from gunner, then 3-4 heavy pods, and gunner may have enough time to do other damage. However, hitting aim guided and 3-4 heavy pods is not reachable for me most of times. Due to lack of time for left/right adjustment to compenstate the respective offsets. And aim guided for helis is much more demanding than the same for tanks.
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