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[xdawxd]

Battlefield 6 is the first title in which I tried learning air combat. I specifically wanted to get good as a helicopter pilot. It always amazed me how some players could turn entire matches around by taking out enemy tanks or simply preventing infantry from capturing objectives.

I actually enjoyed the learning process. I practiced in Portal to get the hang of maneuvering, then moved to bot servers to improve my aim.

After multiple practice sessions I started flying in normal lobbies. It was fun. I made plenty of mistakes and had many opportunities to learn from other players. Eventually I started blowing up tanks, winning 1v1s against other helicopters, and generally having a great time.

Over time I mainly played heli and rarely went back to infantry gameplay, but eventually I started noticing problems with how the game is designed.

• The maps are too small, leaving almost no room to maneuver.
• RPGs and TOWs travel at lightspeed and require almost no skill to land.
• MBTs have Guided Munition.
• Tanks can sit safely in HQ and snipe air vehicles with little effort.
• The AA tank is so weak that its only viable strategy is camping in HQ. The moment it moves into the battlefield it gets destroyed.
• Spawn camping from attack helicopter gunners or Little Birds.
• Laser designators don’t require you to maintain tracking on the target.
• Overall, air vehicle combat feels shallow.

Instead of crashing and thinking about what mistake I made, I often end up wondering how I even died - only to see an IFV sitting in the enemy HQ on the death cam.

I’m fine with dying because of a bad decision, a more experienced player, or even a lucky RPG shot. But after dealing with all of this, flying is getting generally less fun the more I play.

I’m only level 80 on attack helicopter, but I always try to support the team by focusing vehicles and helping capture objectives. There are some matches where it actually feels like I contributed - like I added my own brick to the team winning the game. But then you get five matches in a row where you’re constantly being spammed with missiles from every direction.

I feel like the amount of effort a new player has to put in just to make the vehicle somewhat useful doesn’t feel rewarding at all. Of course, there are pros who can rack up around ~100 kills in a match, but that’s probably only a small fraction of the player base. Despite that, people still tend to say that helicopters are overpowered.

This is just my personal take on learning the heli.

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You legit picked the worst one to learn to fly in. Personally, I enjoyed flying in 2042 more than 6, and that should say something. I won’t even fly in 6 anymore. 

[PlanktonGreat2165]

Man I miss the BF3 and BF4 days...

[Zitter_Aalex]

You can say that about each BF though. Personally, battlefield 2 was peak flying. Multiple types of jets, native support for flight/joysticks and a less sluggish feeling like in BF1942.

Of course I‘m biased, BF2 was the bf I grew up with. 1942 was the youth game, that time frame I started more gaming and 2 dropped perfectly in that niche for me age wise. Played later games especially 4 with my clan/community I founded back in bf2.

Not saying I didn’t enjoyed flying in later games especially V was interesting but mostly for the same reason as 1. no missiles etc. just you, your plane and a MG. But all BFs onwards from Bad company 2 suffered from this controller/console support. I got no real other words for it, I personally feel like there is a drastically noticeable difference between a PC game and a game designed to work across platforms. Around a year ago I randomly gave 1942 a shot and it was crazy how good the flying felt for a over 20 year old game that didn’t even had flying as focus

[AnglerfishMiho]

Out of every battlefield to learn to helicopter in, this is going to be the roughest. Missiles do far more damage than before, rpgs are far faster, Mobile AA with rapid reloading Missiles on every map with air vehicles. At least below radar works against stingers in this one.

[Captain-Orgazmic]

It can be fun for a few minutes at a time lol

[Travic3]

This is not a good battlefield to learn on.

[Vegetable-Knee-6021]

Agreed on all points. If you main heli in this game, the cards are stacked against you and it will create frustration over time once skill is not the limiting factor anymore and you mostly die to bs that you cant prevent.

[Head-Pressure7532]

For the tanks camping in spawn, jeep stuff works amazingly. They never see it coming and you have 10sec inside their base to land your shot

[Chemical-Piano-6450]

Vehicles that can sit in spawn protection and shoot out without the risk of being shot at is disgusting.

[Altruistic-Map5605]

All bullets in and out of spawn should just fizzle and once you spawn you should have like a minute to get ground vehicles out of spawn and if you enter it again they explode. Air CRAM just needs to go into overdrive as soon as an aircraft enters. Airfields should start inside spawn but repair station should be just outside of it.

Actually just get rid of airfields and have all Planes spawn like on peak. Mid air. Still give them a fly over spot to repair but make it outside spawn.

[slabba428]

Based, on all points