this is what i send Miss a while ago, she declined all of it
M134 Heli Meta Change:
i have some balancing changes that can be changed quite easily which should have a huge balancing change on the server.
main point of it is the M134 meta that has been existing in the game forever, and has been existing on the server, since ever.
here are some examples why M134 is so strong:
- you can disable every turret of any vehicle with it, possibly in an instant with 4k rpm (with the exceptions of some very high armor vehicles like tanks)
- you can kill any vehicle with it.
- even the strongest vehicles that cost double, triple or more of its price can get killed by M134 Helis quite easily.
- ground vehicles can be capped in their ability to look upwards, which results in the Pilots to hover above the vehicle so he cant be reached.
- the ability to move around the map very fast.
- even when you manage to engine a M134 heli, the pilot will in many cases be able to crashland the helicopter, out of sight for a ground vehicle to reach it, or another heli needs to hover above it to shoot the pilot out.
which can give the pilot multiple chances to crashland, repair the engine and fight again.
- M134 Helis can shoot down on a target, from above, but the one getting shot at can only see the bottom hull of the Helicopter, not the gunner. the hull cant get penetrated by normal guns, only by specific very high
calibre guns, like the often used LAV Gun.
the balancing "solution" of this problem is to remove the Venom, so the only left M134 Helicopters are:
- Blackhawk (has manual fire, capable as venom, easier to engine as venom)
- Chinook (also cheap for its possible outcome, fast, has flares, easy to engine, )
- Littlebird (cheap, needs to be stationary in very most scenarios, easy to engine)
all of this Helicopters can be damaged by HE Bullets, in a way that can also kill the Helicopter after enough hits connected, the venom tanks alot of HE shots.
this change will ship the chances, and the meta to more ground vehicles being used, since then vehicles like the BMP and the BTR90 for example, can shoot HE shots on their target,
which right now with the Venom meta are pretty useless, because the Venom tanks the HE shots well, and the hull cant be penetrated by its Gun.
Why exactly is the Venom too strong?
- the gun itself is as already mentioned, obviously overpowered
- the engine is too small, too hard to engine, tanks too much
- tanks too many HE shots to be influenced by it
- vehicles that cost double or triple its price cant penetrate the hull of it.
- shooting someone out of it is really hard. the gun itself blocks bullets, the cockpit bars block bullets aswell.
- even when you manage to engine it, the pilot can be able to crashland the helicopter, out of sight for a ground vehicle to reach it, or another heli needs to hover above it to shoot the pilot out.
it can give the pilot multiple chances to crashland, repair the engine and fight again.
- it moves fast around the map.
- All that reasons make it pretty much a agile capable tank in the air, and it destroys the balance of the server.
A Suggestion for Heli Price Changes:
- adjust blackhawk price to 16 bc bandit, it is 14 bc rn.
- adjust chinook price to 11 bc bandit, it is 7 or 8 rn. store price is 5 Gold atm, it should be 1 Briefcase, so players cant sell their Backpack, PKM etc. and store/rearm at every safezone. Timer should be 15 minutes.
Chukar Rule / Price Revert:
disallow chukars to attack ground vehicles:
- Chukar can reach speeds up to 350 km/h +
- it is very tiny, hitting it in time, before impact, is rarely possible.
- there are more then enough ways to counter vehicles without a suicide drone:
Maaws is available on Berezino outpost and Hippie every restart for every player to get, Javelin,
other ground vehicles, Helis, Rocket Helis, Lock on from Attack Heli.
- a 20 briefcase suicide drone being able to destroy vehicles up to 110 briefcase, quite easily, is not good balancing.
- if you would change this,
you can revert the price to 20 bc, because right now with the chukar change to 30 briefcase you nerfed one of the best possibilities to counter attack helis.
because the Main Problem is that Chukars destroy ground vehicles up to 6 times of its price, and the ground vehicle has barely a chance to defend itself.
Viper remove:
i suggest that the AH-1Z Viper gets removed as it has too many advantages to get countered:
- due to the Sidewinder (Air to Air rockets) countering with a chukar becomes a unavailable possiblity
- due to the Sidewinder (Air to Air rockets) Helis like the Venom, Blackhawk are out of question for a fight against it, since they have no flares.
- due to the Sidewinder (Air to Air rockets) due to having flares the Chinook is the only normal helicopter that can counter it, with the disatvantage of it being extremely big, and heavy,
which makes it very easy to hit for both the pilot and the gunner,
besides the fact that the chinook engine is paper in general, 1-2-3 shots from the gunner will be enough to engine it. exploding it is also too easy/fast with the Viper Gun.
- due to the Sidewinder (Air to Air rockets) the heli is not dependant on AA support from their team, nor are they forced to stay around specific areas, where they could get AA support from.
- due to the Sidewinder (Air to Air rockets) being really powerful, even with flaring there is in experience only a small chance you can survive 2 sidewinders being shot at the same time.
- due to the Sidewinder (Air to Air rockets) countering it with another attack heli can be hard, since if the gunner of the Viper shoots 2 Siderwinders while engaging,
the countering Attack Heli Pilot will have to spam flares and shoot at the same time.
- The Gun is one of the strongest in the Game, capable to even shoot people out of vehicles like the M6 Linebacker, also shredding through Helicopters really well, exploding them fast,
while other helicopters either dont have a gun as strong (Mi24) or are limited in regard of Firerate (Apache)
- Sidewinders can be rearmed, so it will never run out of Anti Air, Anti Air that would be expensive to shoot from a Manpad. or a AA Vehicle, which could get tracked down.
The Server would actually need someone to make balancing changes in favor of every type of player, you cant let the playersbase decide on things theyre constantly using, since obviously they will vote against it