Attack Choppers Still Powerful Post 1.2

[WhitecapUK]

Just wanted to say 2 things.

1. Attack choppers are still extremely potent after 1.2 and in the hands of a GOOD pilot can change the course of a match.

2. In defence of the above, mikeagy1 handed the Spetznaz their arses in the longbow yesterday on Ghost Town, excellent pilot even if I was one of the ones getting hammered! Well done & sorry for saying gay every time you slotted me!

3. (Yes I know I said two). Personally think the patch is a good thing, balanced things out nicely but did create some horrible bugs in the process, (LAW passing through tanks etc). Have not seen a lot of claymore spamming, (That would require teamwork which you don't get on public servers very often). Like the FF off on mines & clays - long overdue.

[ptegan]

Re: Attack Choppers Still Powerful Post 1.2

Just wanted to say 2 things.

1. Attack choppers are still extremely potent after 1.2 and in the hands of a GOOD pilot can change the course of a match.

And this IMHO, from someone who has spent little time in choppers, is a good thing. Someone that's really good at what they do should be able to turn a game around, force more people to man AA meaning less troops available on the ground for other tasks.

[baroque]

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1. Attack choppers are still extremely potent after 1.2 and in the hands of a GOOD pilot can change the course of a match.

And that is just ****ing as it should be, choppers are there to make sense and those who can use them can change things.

[WhitecapUK]

Re: Attack Choppers Still Powerful Post 1.2

And that is just ****ing as it should be, choppers are there to make sense and those who can use them can change things.

Just to amplify, I don't think this is a bad thing. I do think the balance for the attack helos is about right, after all, the pilots should at least have to think about ground fire now where as before it was a case of hover, kill, hover,kill, (repeat until armour reaches a point where a visit to a pad is in order), hover, kill etc. :)

[Berrern]

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2. In defence of the above, mikeagy1 handed the Spetznaz their arses in the longbow yesterday on Ghost Town, excellent pilot even if I was one of the ones getting hammered! Well done & sorry for saying gay every time you slotted me!

It seems that EA/DICE didn't touch the SF choppers in the patch? They still have 14 missiles and they seem to be just as well armoured as before.
I was hit by 3 AA missiles just now when I was playing, and still had 4-5 bars of health left. Also, I've put two AT missiles into a chopper without it blowing.

I haven't been able to hit one with a tank yet, so I wouldn't know if that's a 1-shot kill - as it is in vanilla BF2.

The backside is that a lot of the chopper pilots now play SF instead of vanilla, and it leads to a lot of camping on the heli pads. I've seen a huge increase in TKs for choppers on SF servers after 1.2

[WhitecapUK]

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Errm, don't know on that one. When I was putting AT missiles into mikeagy1 yesterday it seemed to have a greater effect. Also when I was in a chopper I seemed to suffer far more damage than before from ground fire whether in a transport or attack helo, certainly the BH went down a lot quicker than normal. (Fnar Fnar).

[subzero nautica]

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I noticed there is an off-balance in post 1.2 on different maps!

On Sharqi, the choppers are still way to powerful. Probably because there are very few AA Platforms available and its easy to take them out with choppers.

On Ghost, the choppers seem underpowered because Mobile AA vehicles have a faster rate of fire. Also there are too many AA's between the two mobiles and several platforms all able to hit most targets in the main gaming areas.

[Jofaba]

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I haven't played Special Forces that much (not that many servers that are very fun to play on) but vanilla BF2 seems very changed. I find that less people seem to want to fly the heli's. I always see it sitting there (usually with the occasional base rape on it) and when I ask someone to fly it so I can copilot, I almost never get anyone interested. But if you pair up in a heli and use the TV missles, you're going to do pretty damn good. I love flying copilot because I'm getting pretty good with the TV, and what's funny is that it's used so inoften that people are surprised by it. Well... okay so I can't see the suprise in their faces but when they respawn and come back at us you can tell they're more leary about coming with a headon attack/hovering.

And I dunno about one hit one kill with a tank, but usually they've got enough health already gone so it works out that way. I love taking down helis with tanks. I guess I like doing what seems the least likely to happen =P

[johnrambo.ptwars]

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I still own with the Attack choppers :)

[Kattspya]

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On Sharqi, the choppers are still way to powerful. Probably because there are very few AA Platforms available and its easy to take them out with choppers.

One determined player in a Vodnik/HMMV is enough to destroy any helos happy time. Don't blame your personal shortcomings on the game. If you want that helo down then down it. You can't expect it to die without any effort from your part.