The Attack Choppers on Siege of Shangai needs to either receive a majored nerf or be completely removed. It completely ruins the flow of gameplay. All they do is kill roof tops, nothing else. Standing on any roof for X amount of time or flying in the support chopper is almost suicidal. Most annoying things is when there’s a nice even battle on C Tower roof, and a random AH comes out of no where, does one sweep of the roof, gets 9 kills, then flies off.
I understand that AH pilots like SOS because it’s one of the only maps that offers cover from stingers, Jets, and AA, but SOS makes the AH go from a coffin to an unstoppable OP machine.
Stingers are worthless from trying to take them down, and free fires are impossible because their slow speed makes them easy to dodge and, at long range, way to slow and hard to predict. The only weapon easily capable of destroying AH is the pick up on the roof, but all the pilot has to do is deploy flares and hide. Even if you do get a hit, it doesn’t kill it, may disable it at most, but doesn’t destroy it. On most SOS servers, lock ons and AA mines are banned anyways. Only thing 100% capable of taking out an AH is another AH.
They just completely ruin the flow of the gameplay and do not help out teammates besides kill . They don’t take objectives or anything. Most of these pilots finish the game with 100+ kills and a handful of deaths. Been in games where they have over 200 kills and around 10 deaths on an 800 ticket server.
I love SOS with all my heart, but the AH completely ruins the flow of gameplay, the map, and good urban combat. Most annoying thing is when there’s a great even battle for an object, AH does a quick sqeep, gets 10 kills, and then flies off to go sweep another roof
And before an AH pilots comes in here and says something about SOS being the only map where AH are useful: the fun of 32 players shouldn’t be sacrificed for the fun of two.
It’ll at least show AH pilots how annoying they are. I know it most likely won’t get removed, but you never know. The devs still keep up with old game making small patches here and there.
great, another crybaby thread. allthough the forums moved, the content didn’t change even one bit.
edit: reread your joke of a post, and the crying about not being able to roofcamp is simply hilarious. that much rooftop access as is now on shanghai shouldnt even exist
i won’t bother writing a wall of text, because both walls of text have been written about the “imbalances” of shanghai helicopters, and also walls of text have been written as to why you are absolutely wrong. so here’s a tl;dr
If y’all don’t care, then why are you here responding? The fact that only pilots are defending AH on SOS is enough evidence already to show how much they need to be nerfed or removed.
I like whenever someone talks about how OP AH are on SOS, they always say that they are roof top campers. You do realize the only way to capture C Tower is to be on the roof top right?
If I’m late to the party, then why do you care if I wrote this post?
Because always being top 5 on the leaderboard isn’t “gud.” Hard to be “gud” when whenever you try to capture the most important objective, you get rapped byou an AH. I think we can all agree that there’s less teamwork with randoms in Battlefield 4 than any other Battlefield, besides Hardline. I can’t be the medic, support with ammo, and AA and AT all at the same time.
I don’t even snipe. I’m a PTFO player. I always try to take C Tower because from there you can parachute out to all the other objectives. It’s the most important flag when they tower is up.
I’m not that good at piloting but am a grest gunner. If the AH is available at the spawn menu, I’ll spawn in it and be gunner and can easily take down other AH if the pilot can get me into position. If it’s not in the spawn menu, I go ahead and spawn in on a flag. Better me be capturing objectives than sitting in the spawn menu.
I am good at all the classes. I can basically play any role my team needs me to play. I can drive a heavy vehicles, be the medic, gun for AH and SH, be the repair engi, be the AT and AA, play the support role, be the sniper, etc. It takes a lot of communication to take out an AH on SOS. If you have other AA engis and have support, AH isn’t that much of an issue. When you’re the only one trying to take em out, there’s no point because you’ll either get rapped using a free fire or it’ll deploy flares or smoke and fly off so you can’t get another shot off with lock on.
When the opposing team has a superior chopper pilot, I just leave C alone and focus on the other objectives. E is really the only other place you are a bit vulnerable to the AH as infantry and A, B, and D provide plenty of cover for vehicles.
Removing the AH would make the support chopper a lot better and even the AB more powerful. My thinking get would be make the AH less maneuverability and a little less speed. It would make it easier to shoot down with both free fire and lock on. That or replace themy with little birds.
If they have one, I try to focus on D and Bennett if we control C. I’ll usually spawn I and jump off almost instantly. If we don’t, I focus on E and A where enemies are less likely to jump off and aim for
Don’t play on servers with stupid rules and just take the tower down. If you remove the map control that C provides, then the only reason to go out of your way to cap it is for the attack boat, and that’s far less of a threat on that map.