Patrol Heli AI

[Janac]

This new Patrol Heli AI is beyond stupid. Giving big groups another advantage over smaller groups/solo players.

I understand this is intended to improve PvP, but as it is now, I've experienced and notice people rather base sit and wait heli out than even attempting taking it. In my opinion, on the servers I've played, the old Patrol Heli already brought great amount of pvp.

The new escape feature is just straight up annoying, i hit half a mag with AK and it runs. Once you've finally won the tag battle on Patrol, you now have to chase it down. Piss annoying. It doesn't flee just a few grids away, it flees across the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ map, WHAT? Could've had a feature where getting the tag from others would be easier, fresher player ID that gets tag has a higher chance of getting its agroo. Still makes it move more, enhances more pvp for those who wish for it, and can actually improve battle between teams.

And to mention the new pathing of Patrol. It spawned in and had 6 grids movement on land, ON LAND. Its whole pathing happened 3-4 grids out in sea. The duration happened for so long, when finally someone did tag it, it despawned on them.

[とうきょう]

True... I had no issues to solo Heli with an AK and now its so hard that its impossible to do... when I hide inside a building, the Heli passes 2 or 3 times and flies away but if I peak it even a little bit, I get 3 tapped in full metal gear and or rogue rocket straight to my face... Now I face an issue where nobody does heli and it keeps raping my ears cuz the sound of it is still way too loud, no way to tune it down or turn it off and I cant do heli cuz it always wrecks me even with end game gear and 100 med sticks aint enough... I can land 10 rounds before I need to hide and pump myself with medsticks, then the heli goes 3 grids away from my position and I wait there to retag it... Annoying AF... Also the new minigun is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥... deals no damage like if it was 9mm but it takes only 556 rounds that do less damage than a custom SMG in it... If its 556 then it should deal L96 kind of damage, not less that custom SMG... Inability to load in explo ammo is also stoopid and forcing me to load the gun only at base with T2 workbench is also super stoopid cuz that 300 rounds takes out maybe a few heavy scientists and then back to AK HS only...

The game desperately needs a balistics update where ammo would be X damage and gun barrel lenght will adjust range and velocity... Cuz its dumb to have 1 ammo type that deals damage from 40 to 80... Or adding sniper ammo like 308 so you could one tap HS scientists with L96 and M249... Also them devs need to focus more on solo players cuz last few things were huge clans only things...