I've been playing BF3 since the European release and not once have I had a satisfactory experience in a helicopter.
I love driving about in tanks and IFVs; exchanging shots with enemy armour, trying not to be outflanked by pesky infantry, limping back to cover for repairs after getting damaged to within a few percent of dead - it's tremendous fun.
Similarly, the infantry roles are all pretty well balanced in my opinion although I do miss Blops' take on kit customisation. I mean, there *are* a lot of options for customising loadout but I preferred Blops' implementation.
However - on to the subject of my post:
Helicopters. I know in real life they're a complicated beast to control but this is a video game, I'm playing to relax not so that I can trigger post traumatic stress disorder when I pick up Battlefield 4 in a few years.
Upon taking off it all goes smoothly enough as long as I'm flying in straight lines but any more complicated flight plans see me lurching wildy around the map - If I'm lucky I don't hit terrain but there's never an opportunity to try and shoot anyone because I'm trying not to mate my helicopter with a tree.
Some times it seems to be a lag issue - the chopper is flying straight and level and then teleports into a wall before exploding - but a lot of the time it's like the thing doesn't take any notice of my controller inputs.
So I figured that maybe piloting isn't for me but I can still ride as a gunner or passenger, right? Wrong. Has anyone else noticed a phenomenon of players sprinting to respawned aircraft, climbing in as pilots, filling up on crew and passengers and then flying off the edge of the carrier before descending slowly and maddeningly into the ocean?
I get that pretty much every time I try to fly with people. That and the guy/girl who has a transport chopper full of passengers eager to capture a flag but they can't because he won't land. Then again, based on my own attempts at flying, I can't blame them for keeping distance from sea level.
And at the end of this, I can't remember what question I had for my fellow escapists.
I suppose it's:
1) Do you crash every time you set foot in those things? Do you want to form a support group?
2) Does anyone in the UK or somewhere else that wont lag terribly want to be my friend and fly me everywhere so I don't need to embarrass myself further?
3) Are DICE gunning for the Hollywood Movie audience by depicting every single helicopter that takes off as an object almost scientifically designed to crash?
4) What vehicle or class are you useless with?
I love driving about in tanks and IFVs; exchanging shots with enemy armour, trying not to be outflanked by pesky infantry, limping back to cover for repairs after getting damaged to within a few percent of dead - it's tremendous fun.
Similarly, the infantry roles are all pretty well balanced in my opinion although I do miss Blops' take on kit customisation. I mean, there *are* a lot of options for customising loadout but I preferred Blops' implementation.
However - on to the subject of my post:
Helicopters. I know in real life they're a complicated beast to control but this is a video game, I'm playing to relax not so that I can trigger post traumatic stress disorder when I pick up Battlefield 4 in a few years.
Upon taking off it all goes smoothly enough as long as I'm flying in straight lines but any more complicated flight plans see me lurching wildy around the map - If I'm lucky I don't hit terrain but there's never an opportunity to try and shoot anyone because I'm trying not to mate my helicopter with a tree.
Some times it seems to be a lag issue - the chopper is flying straight and level and then teleports into a wall before exploding - but a lot of the time it's like the thing doesn't take any notice of my controller inputs.
So I figured that maybe piloting isn't for me but I can still ride as a gunner or passenger, right? Wrong. Has anyone else noticed a phenomenon of players sprinting to respawned aircraft, climbing in as pilots, filling up on crew and passengers and then flying off the edge of the carrier before descending slowly and maddeningly into the ocean?
I get that pretty much every time I try to fly with people. That and the guy/girl who has a transport chopper full of passengers eager to capture a flag but they can't because he won't land. Then again, based on my own attempts at flying, I can't blame them for keeping distance from sea level.
And at the end of this, I can't remember what question I had for my fellow escapists.
I suppose it's:
1) Do you crash every time you set foot in those things? Do you want to form a support group?
2) Does anyone in the UK or somewhere else that wont lag terribly want to be my friend and fly me everywhere so I don't need to embarrass myself further?
3) Are DICE gunning for the Hollywood Movie audience by depicting every single helicopter that takes off as an object almost scientifically designed to crash?
4) What vehicle or class are you useless with?
