R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

[Lazy8s]

Re: R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

Ok, so many of you responded the same I will make a generic response. The blackhawk took NO SKILL! If you call 5 people all spawning on their squad leader as the right kit skill you need a new definition. The guns took no skill, they had as large a splash radius as grenades. Sitting in the back as an engineer took no skill, just take out your wrench and hold down the mouse button. Medics did nothing to heal, just sit there, support did nothing to resupply, just sit there. the only thing that took ANY skill was flying, even then it took almost no skill. They didn't have to evade anything because the engineers kept them up even getting hit 2 AT missles or stingers at the same time. To me it's the same difference now. AA missles take as much skill as piloting a blackhawk, how is that not balanced?

[Lugal317]

Re: R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

AA missiles take the same skill as piloting the Blackhawk...... I'm not even going to respond to that.

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

Listen guys. It took 6 people on Mashtuur to keep the BH in the air. If you got 6 people together to take it down, they could. Now it takes 6 people to keep the BH in the air, but only one guy in a hummer to take it down.

So don't talk about how nerfing the BH is promoting teamwork... All it does is allow a single person to take down a whole teamwork oriented squad

Quoted for truth. Im betting that people will ignore this.

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

Ok, so many of you responded the same I will make a generic response. The blackhawk took NO SKILL! If you call 5 people all spawning on their squad leader as the right kit skill you need a new definition. The guns took no skill, they had as large a splash radius as grenades. Sitting in the back as an engineer took no skill, just take out your wrench and hold down the mouse button. Medics did nothing to heal, just sit there, support did nothing to resupply, just sit there. the only thing that took ANY skill was flying, even then it took almost no skill. They didn't have to evade anything because the engineers kept them up even getting hit 2 AT missles or stingers at the same time. To me it's the same difference now. AA missles take as much skill as piloting a blackhawk, how is that not balanced?

Thats a nice lie. You dont really think that operating a BHAWK is as easy as operating AA? I mean. I had my crash experiences with newbie pilots. Too much of those actually to count.

[Lugal317]

Re: R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

Quoted for truth. Im betting that people will ignore this.

Thanks... alot of people ignored that statement pre-patch, but it makes perfect sense doesn't it???

[PsYcHo.KiLLa]

Re: R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

AA missiles take the same skill as piloting the Blackhawk...... I'm not even going to respond to that.

You're disagreeing with that statement, right? Piloting a Blackhawk takes skill.

[Bizzare inc.]

Re: R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

Depends what you mean by piloting.

Anyone can pilot a Bh, but if you're talking about whilst under fire from all angles by Vodniks, AA, RL's then it takes skill to fly very low between all buildings to escape the fire maybe.

[cemmyz]

Re: R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

black hawk is a transport helicopter, not a flying gunship, i think its quite ok this way.

Actually the blackhawk is also used as a gunship

[Lugal317]

Re: R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

You're disagreeing with that statement, right? Piloting a Blackhawk takes skill.

Yes, piloting a BH CORRECTLY takes skill, sure anyone can fly it around the map, but evasion and circling, calling out targets, tipping left or right for gunners, etc. takes a little more skill than FREAKING AA.

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: R.I.P. Blackhawk - 2/14/2006

I dont see the BHAWK doing anything as a transport helicopter once the USMC is forced to stick on the carrier. The most logical thing to do for BHAWKs would be- nerf miniguns to retardation, beef armor, disable or nerf onboard repairs. THEN it would be a transport helo in BF2... That would have been the most reasonable way to "fix" BHAWKs. The solution and situation at the moment points that DICE responded to whiners, not to genuinely "balance" something.