r/PilotsofBattlefield

Feels like they nerfed the base AA this morning, anyone else noticing?

So I’m retraining 16 years of mouse roll helicopter flying.

I’ve decided the best option for me is to actually leave yaw on A/D but add Q/E to roll, because I’m more familiar with this (planet side 2 dogfighting).

But what about jets? Do you guys use rifle aim on jets too? I’d still keep the A/D yaw and or roll on Q/E (incidentally these are married to buttons on my mmo style mouse too, so I could roll while yawing without finger yoga… I haven’t fully built this in yet as a roll option on my heli though it’s there, and the way it’s laid out it still makes sense)

But is Jet Mouse yaw even remotely worth training? Even in my early days with the helicopter I can feel how it is better with rifle aim mouse controls for aiming at my targets, and it also more smoothly transitions with free look smart/tow missile aim… but jet yaw is… much less significant…

So do any great jet pilots use rifle aim controls on mouse? (Clearly you still need keybind yaw, but I find that necessary in helo still anyways). Does it improve accuracy?

My guess is at least another month or so for the “mid season update” instead of just issuing a hotfix. Maybe even season 4 if they really hate us

https://reddit.com/link/1tjwiq6/video/9hhw86n2tj2h1/player

So, not only is this a blatant example of below radar not working (you can't convince me that I'm not low enough since going lower would mean kissing the f-ing grass), but also an instance of the IGLA maintaining lock through I don't know how many meters of concrete and soil since the user had no LOS with me).

Man attack helicopters feel terrible now.

Used to be if you were actually good at flying you could go on solid runs, dodge missiles, support the team, all that stuff. Now it feels like you spawn in, pop flares once, and instantly get deleted by 6 different AA launchers lol.

The damage feels weaker, movement feels slower, and staying alive for more than 30 seconds is a miracle. Feels like there’s no point even picking the heli anymore when tanks are sitting across the map farming kills for free.

Not saying helis should be OP, but right now they honestly just feel useless.
The heavy rockets don’t even do their job. I got in a dogfight the other day and it literally lasted 3-5 minutes because We couldn’t kill each other with the weak damage output. I hit a little bird the other day with heavy rocket and it did 40 damage.
How can a solo pilot compete?!!

Attack helis are too slow and heavy rockets suck now. Without a gunner they are useless. Jets, especially the fighter jet are too lackluster, the fighter jet's bombs suck and they're an automatic way to be bottom of the leaderboard, the attack jet is slightly less worse, without spotting from the team, you cannot see any enemies and getting shitty vehicle assists also guarantees a place at the bottom of the leaderboard.

Also, what's the point in using the igla if the other launcher's missile keeps going if shot right before the target goes out of range, but if the target is out of range from the igla, the missile loses lock. What even are the range upgrades on the igla?

I was finally getting good with them and starting to hit my TOWs on ground vehicles at least lol.

My gunner who's a buddy was cleaning up shop on the infantry side and I was hammering their armor.

It feels like I got my balls cut off tbh.

Not only are the rockets weaker, but my aim somehow declined.

Skill issue on my part but man this sucks. I feel like my gunner's air taxi now lol.

Are light rockets the way to go now?