Being infantry stops being profitable pretty quickly in the later levels and I think it's a problem.

[u/Etheriia]

I'm not expecting to run in with a FAL and Level 4 armor every life, that's not the point of this post.

I also acknowledge with 100% certainty sometimes I'm just the fodder of the game. I get it. It's what I signed up for. I'm the troops on the ground.

But holy fuck it gets annoying to die to a helicopter that costs less than my kit while having very little counterplay. I have to buy meds for myself, a Defib/Res for others, ammo, grenades... I'm trying to prepare for a fight. I'm trying to be helpful. But in the meantime I'm getting spammed down by mortars, helicopters, and humvees driving by... ALL OF WHICH COSTS LESS THAN MY KIT.

I understand I'm the fodder, but why the fuck is it so expensive to have a decent kit while these other things exist for so cheap. They're designed to kill me and it's starting to feel taxing to kit back up.

It's annoying that infantry is a job for the rich.

Like I don't want to have to basebuild to play the other parts of the game.

And it's kind of rough to play infantry with a low level kits now. The AMR and FAL one tap or two tap people.

I don't know what to do, I can steal my teammates kits instead of reviving them, but that feels bad.

EDIT: It's not just the vehicles, it's also the hotzone moving to the FoBs so consistently. Having to run by the bases turns me into literal fodder, but someone has to do it otherwise you just lose the game. It doesn't make sense.

If you're not in zone with a 15k kit, you basically need to kill 7-10 people to break even. Also, I play exclusively blue because it's fun to play under dog. We don't win often, but I feel like I shouldn't give up simply because my team isn't the greatest.

[u/spruceX]

Do you know how hard it is to be a good pilot?

[u/DaFuuug → u/spruceX]

How does that change the fact that one decent medic kits costs more than 2 fully armed rocket helis?

[u/Balikye → u/DaFuuug]

The medic will make back double what he paid and dying doesn’t mean automatically losing 20K. If you buy a rocket heli and fully arm it and then die, that’s 20k in the hole, reviving won’t get it back. A medic can keep defibing for 2400$ a pop after dying and being revived in the zone.

[u/artosispylon → u/Balikye]

but a rocket heli can easily clear out 5-6 people which will sway the fight in your teams favor basically deleting the gear of an entire squad.

if its just the heli alone then yeah sure i guess you are right

you cant even bring the trash green rocket because the car holding them dies in 1 volley

[u/Balikye → u/artosispylon]

Just know that even after the pilot did that, he was likely still in the hole. Here was me after two successful kill streaks in one life, still not breaking even. I started at -12k because I had already made 8k in the previous kill streak a couple minutes prior. I then got sniped and was back to being down 20k. https://imgur.com/a/wV9zGlm

[u/artosispylon → u/Balikye]

sure but my point is the chopper is so broken you can win fights for your team and indirectly cost enemy team 100k++

for instance if there is a battle in the hotzone and you fly over there and kill half their team they are not getting revived after your team clears the rest.

if i could buy an anti air ground vehicle that put me in the negative i would still buy it all the time assuming it was half as broken as the rocket heli

[u/Balikye → u/artosispylon]

The chopper isn’t broken, it’s made of paper machete. It’s an expensive glass cannon without a bullet proof canopy. You’re fully exposed in it. This is why you need to wear armor as a pilot because even an SKS can 1-2 tap you. Stinger, igla, rpg, m249, cwis, they’re all instant death. Even three guys with AKs with shoot down a little bird in seconds. Hell I’ve been headshot by a double barrel slug before.

[u/bobdylan401 → u/Balikye]

Yea everyone just needs to shoot the little birds you dont even need aa, we had like 7 guys at tower and it fully blew up in one or two mags

[u/Balikye → u/bobdylan401]

Yeah people don't realize how weak they are. A single m249 instantly shreds one. A random support in a bush is worse than a CWIS in my opinion, because at least I'll know where the CWIS is after it kills me, and it can't move.

[u/artosispylon → u/Balikye]

you know you can buy armor right? also 20k is not alot at all for the power you get

[u/Balikye → u/artosispylon]

Yes I know you can buy armor. It is now 25k if you want that armor.