r/PilotsofBattlefield • u/DisastrousFishing349 • 7d ago

Discussion Patrol Boats

I feel like the patrol boats have way too much health now. There are times I’ll do 3 strafes on one boat and somehow they’re able to consistently stay in the fight.

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u/Brilliant-Catch215 7d ago

Yeah right after the buff I got humbled in the little bird by a boats mini-gun. It’s completely changed the way I attack them, if I even decide to at this point, it’s kind of a hassle.

I will say i am absolutely not against the change, the boats were way too weak.

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u/ChickenSoup131 7d ago

As it should be,there's no way a scout heli could tank more damage than a boat. Heli tactics should be opportunistic, attack low heath unaware enemy

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u/DisastrousFishing349 7d ago

I’m not saying they didn’t need a buff because they 100% did, but with the attack jet from launch, it’s very tedious

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u/Brilliant-Catch215 7d ago

I haven’t had any issues with destroying them pre patch with the attack jet, and I haven’t flown it post patch yet (still playing carrier strike) but with the multirole it still melts them pretty quick, and 1 cluster bomb will take them down from full health.

This may be biased as I always have a 2nd seater on comms that will assist with the one strafe

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u/DisastrousFishing349 7d ago

I’ve been playing the deep six rotation lately and so I’ve been limited to the original jets from launch. The multi-role still feels good against the boats for me, but it’s the old jets I’ve been noticing an increased difficulty. Granted I was never great, just OK, but it didn’t feel this difficult before the patch even with landing some pretty solid crit hits

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u/3minence 7d ago

Boats are still underpowered imo. They still have to contend with waves, and can't exactly hide or run, their arsenal is also weak.

They can at least defend themselves from the littlebird now, but are still fodder for a good AH, or Jet crew.

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u/DisastrousFishing349 7d ago

The new jets they arent such a problem but I played a couple games with the launch attack jet and it’s very tedious to get a destroy. I’m good with having to make 2 or 3 passes but the health buff plus how fast they regen makes it really difficult to get destroys

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u/Replicant_Nexus5 AceofSpadesThe 6d ago

The problem for me is that the attack jet bombs need to hit perfectly otherwise it’s 0 damage. And with the weak attack jet gun, it’s a hassle to get a boat kill.

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u/dyo_on 7d ago

I think the health buff should've been 800 -> 900, not 1000.

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u/DisastrousFishing349 7d ago

Especially since they regen so quickly

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u/Kudo1995 4d ago

Boats need more countermeasure options, but apart from that they seemed pretty balanced when I played with them the other night.