Battlefield 4 - The Complete Attack Helicopter Guide (Gunner and Pilot)

The final guide I'll make for the Attack Helicopter in Battlefield 4. This guide covers the pilot, gunner and general tips and tricks whilst looking back at some of my previous guides.
Pilot from intro: / @cosairfps
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[@FracturedPixels]

"BF4 numbers drop, and move to bf1..." Here we are 7 years later still playing BF4

[@jonathandefluiter2830]

9

[@ohnoitsthatguy09]

@@jonathandefluiter2830 9 and one month lol

[@qirmizi6085]

2024 and servers still full

[@lord-REDACTED-]

"BF4 numbers drop, and move to bf1..." Didn't happen. Lol. BF4 is still strong AF

[@onefastsled]

I GB if anything, bf4 numbers grew when guys from this game told newcomers to the series about bf4 when they came back

[@buzz3248]

Now people are starting to come back to bf4😀

[@lukaslipovsky340]

@@buzz3248 nah

[@buzz3248]

@@lukaslipovsky340 well partly yes not everyone

[@TheKnightDrag0n]

Ironically Bf1 is dead as fuck.

[@EnigmaTanker]

despite having 500 hours flying, still watched the entire thing just to see if I'm not missing anything :p

[@christo-gj1qk]

I still think the helicopters are crap

[@GolD3enAg3e]

enigma!!how u doing? still play bf4? Engima-SkyClear

[@EnigmaTanker]

@@GolD3enAg3e not really. But I'm doing well, hbu ?

[@GolD3enAg3e]

@@EnigmaTanker doing ok, I'm harshuop, played a few times with xblaze etc back on myon 2016.. left then, justd tarted playing a month back.. no one's here from the old days feel so lost

[@EnigmaTanker]

@@GolD3enAg3e I figured you were OPP 😅 Yeah, I play occasionally but not as much as I used to back in undergrad.

[@gnittegdellort]

Rogue Transmission is also another great map for the heli if you play smart and have a decent bit of backup from your team. Had a few 100-150 killstreak games on it

[@Rodach34]

I don’t know how to survive. When I choose the attack heli, it’s like every stinger and rpg on the map starts shooting at me

[@peanut1120]

F. B. I. Make sure you countermeasures are on and always have cover to go behind

[@seralith]

Stealth coating can be good for that

[@christo-gj1qk]

I hate the stingers just 2 shots is enough to destroy your helicopter it should take more hits

[@monssss7176]

As an attack heli pilot Iam just gonna simply tell you to find another server lol . And try not to be at the tower that much in Shanghai . And always find cover . Good luck 👍

[@michaelrincon559]

Find cover, fly low (on most maps), fly fast and do evasive maneuvering. Gotta be unpredictable in your direction but know where you're going. I should make these videos but I can get anywhere from 40 - 80 kills in the helicopters only being shot down once or twice a match. My style is if I see anyone I attack them. A good defense is a good offense in the air.

[@cosairfps]

I knew it was gonna go on KZbin.

[@AKAARTOFFICIAL]

Wonder hasn't played BF in months. Not many people can hit the shots that cosair hits that's for sure.

[@AKAARTOFFICIAL]

l69xXweedXx69l IAKAARTI

[@cosairfps]

l69xXweedXx69l DAYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM why you so mean

[@cosairfps]

l69xXweedXx69l love what

[@cosairfps]

l69xXweedXx69l okay, now I feel uncomfortable

[@nklsh]

Possibly one of the best Attack heli guide on KZbin! Even if Bf4 will start loosing players soon. Nice clips by you and Cosair ;)

[@cosairfps]

HesterBoul Gaming ayy my pleasure

[@AKAARTOFFICIAL]

Thanks mate :)

[@ScorpiusBF]

HesterBoul Gaming don't worry about BF4

[@chrisbotts8334]

any BF4 loses will be back in a few months.

[@baetech1982]

your videos are one of the most informative and well explained I've seen, god job !!

[@dreambound.]

I feel like the TV missile has a delay on Xbox One... When you try to steer it it just feels really indirect :/

[@tjsolo9915]

Yep

[@bigmacmik3534]

It does

[@samuelsanchez6140]

Yep PS4 has the same delay

[@skadoosh3253]

Same on ps4

[@evildeeds1874]

It's a deadzone. Sucks you can't change it

[@brendanwilliamson4590]

pretty thorough, only trick that you haven't covered is seat switch when you get in the heli eliminates 3 second delay before you can lift off if you need to get airborne really quickly.

[@Thinkingfit]

Top guide bud. Still getting to grips with the tow but starting to slowly get more kills, only changed from bf3 to bf4 a year ago so was still used to heatseakers. Really great guide tho, keep up the good work!

[@honoramd6176]

My gunner went 68-1 and I, as a pilot went 34-2

[@Backwoodztuner]

Wow so much great info. I haven't played BF4 since BF1 dropped but after watching that I wanna go fly an attack chopper . Nicely done bud 👍

[@AKAARTOFFICIAL]

Thanks mate :)

[@blacksnow5069]

Just had a squad today, we were all shooting heatseeks at helicopters while holding down C. It was so fun.

[@Sn1PeRZzBLOOD]

Thanks for this. Having joined some servers through Battlelog, I experience the gunner seat and enjoyed it =) Had to look up what people use for enhancements (upgrades).

[@Dr.gibble]

You still playing?? Im a pilot but need someone that can shoot a bit and wanna play with me xD

[@ohmydog9171]

5:03 lol ill probably never be 1/10th as good of a heli pilot as this dude but seeing people get so mad they are saying slurs in chat is hilarious

[@MrStefy40]

Love watching these videos .... I have tried over and over to pilot a heli but keep crashing...no heli or planes for this guy... Thanks for the great vids

[@poh1126]

BF4 still going strong lmao

[@poh1126]

If you ever see this comment, whenever I use a TV missile as a gunner (helicopter or boat pilot) it’s so jittery - any idea why this happens?

[@cooper_hodgson]

Due to bad server connections

[@cooper_hodgson]

If you're in Oz and ever need a pilot lmk

[@casualspurr1761]

rly nice guide dude

[@thebulletkin8393]

The hard part is actually getting into an attack heli, so many people take them first it’s impossible to practise in one.

[@N7K0S]

Test range you can try and yeah it sucks and why you press the button first again you lose it

[@rmkb2586]

I know I'm late but I always tell my gunner to switch the rocket launcher to a stinger or igla, in case of baserape (:

[@brigzthemostHigh]

Any New Zealand/Australian players wanna link up with some old army guys who still play this daily and usually have some good banter and games reply to this or jump on our band of brothers server. Have a good one. Cheers Oh and nice video bro, hope all is well across the ditch. Later bol

[@hussaingawad4629]

That's what we need !!! Thanks

[@combobrain3938]

Nice guide art well done. As the last video about the Attack Heli it would be nice to see every glitch and maybe how to trigger them. Like TV bug, Zuni/30Mil Damage Glitch and so on. Would be nice to know how they get triggered or how you can prevent the glitches from happening in the first place :)

[@AKAARTOFFICIAL]

No way to prevent them as far as I know... The Havoc is more prone to TV bugs but that's about it!

[@babayaga1644]

Me watching 4 years later

[@shikinfriedbryce2228]

thx for the tips time to get destroyed by pros while trying to use these tactics

[@MrFahad300]

Great video thanks

[@jordansaum7710]

I'm still trying to figure out how to fly without crashing

[@lume.3887]

That was awesome, you could give like, a tutorial on how to fly the maps themselves, ik you kinda touched on it, but things like how you can hit the roads on shang outside the maps at any speed without blowing up, how to burn people out :( and how as a gunner if your pilot flies you into the C building you can see the other heli through the building, pretty useful in pugs, also I REALLY want that tutorial on how to dogfight :DDD

[@AKAARTOFFICIAL]

I'd make map specific guides but I'll need to go back and play BF4! Might be a while before that happens :D

[@cosairfps]

x Crowman x I hope so.

[@Bobby50135]

Why am I watching this...I have controller drift on my ps4 and it takes forever for my to go and select a vehicle. I get a chopper and then have no cruemate or else some try hard will just camp it or I will get shot down in 10 seconds

[@lejenddairy]

Actually, you are wrong about saying that there is no need to fly low. Flying low is used as a defensive tactic. The best pilots will dive low and fly beneath terrain and buildings for cover, as well as flying low for stealth to get flanks off. As well as going below radar. Flying high is for offensive play. Flying low is for defensive play. The best strategy for AAs is to run Hydra rockets, pilot TOW missile, and gunner TV, as well for the for you gunner to run extinguisher for the pilot seat. You want to spot the AA, fly low and flank around the map, line your gunners TV shot up, hit the AA with a TOW an a TV missile and dump the rest of your rockets into him. This will guaranteed destroy a fully health AA in a matter of a few seconds. If you get disabled, jump out before landing, have your gunner switch to the pilot seat and pop his extinguisher. Now if we are talking about height. I recommend you keep the helicopter at 70-100 meters and above for engaging you targets. That's high enough to assess everything happening on the map and not being prone to just get instantly smacked down by a RPG/SMAW, or a tank because you were to low of an altitude. Now when you fly low, again, the point is to not expose yourself. You never fly low when engaging targets. And you never fly low when there are enemies in proximity to shoot you down. You only fly low in order to evade sight from the enemy and gain an advantage. Another tip, let the enemy fire off a heat seeking missile, before you evade. That way you can pin point where they are. On Battlefield, you better catch me by surprise with a RGP, because if you use a stinger, it's going to end up putting a target over your head and getting you killed. Which goes into another point, never use heat seeking missiles against pro pilots. If you are an Infantry and you are getting dominated by a really good pilot on the enemy team, do not use a stinger. As I said, it will put a big bullseye on your head. Your best lock is to use a dumb fired rocket, which has a better chance of not giving away your position and ultimately being able to single handily take out a helicopter with one rocket. If you feel a bit clumsy with dumb fired rockets, hop in the AA and use you main gun. I don't know how many noobs I see ignore there main gun, which is practically easy to use and able to shoot down a aircraft faster and more efficiently then heatseeking missiles would. Aside from that, very good list of tips.

[@whogoingme]

Love it Art :)

[@el_id_oz2545]

great vid as always👍but i have to questions: 1. do u know where bavarianbuddy is 2. how is it possible to shoot someone out of the chopper with a tow but dont destroying the helicopter? cause i did that today but i was wondering whether its a bug or just a lag or dont know

[@AKAARTOFFICIAL]

1. He's taken a little break but I talked to him on ts the other day and he's good. He'll be back soon :D 2. It's a bug. Often you'll shoot a heli with a tow and just kill the guy inside.

[@el_id_oz2545]

AKA-ART 1. well than see you guys soon on twitch again :) 2. thabks for the information

[@makerthgr8r519]

pretty sure its cuz when u hit a player with the tow the player absorbs damage and not heli.

[@lejenddairy]

If you hit the pilot, due to coding, it only registers damage on the pilot and not the vehicle.

[@OXyGeNe8DJ]

Best and more realistic vehicle in game.

[@cosairfps]

DJOXyGeNe8 not at all realistic

[@lume.3887]

yeah hahaha, the avionics don't work

[@cosairfps]

x Crowman x well...

[@noev788]

Why is it whenever I fly the chopper my screen shakes non stop? I barely spawn in it at the base and it’s shaking like crazy

[@winds10]

How is it when you fly your heli it seems so much faster and more agile than when I do it? I feel real sluggish in the attack heli.

[@slavicity]

It might be the FOV difference. It's quite noticeable that things seem to move faster when you have a higher FOV but I'm not sure if it's a setting on console.

[@twix8039]

At 4:42 in the chat he says “heker” and wants to say “hacker” ..... normal situations if you are good in the helicopter

[@prosilicus]

Thanks for this Art! Really helpful! I've watched all of your guides and they certainly did help me out (esp the tow) but I just wanted to ask you about this issue I'm currently facing. I'm usually the pilot but whenever I'm the gunner and I have to use the TV I almost (99%) of the time end up missing by target by an inch. Mostly my TV's go through the rotors or a cm ahead or under/top of the chopper. Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks and great video! (As always :D)

[@AKAARTOFFICIAL]

Aim a bit lower haha. I always try and hit just below the heli anyway as it takes a while for a pilot to move up, but only half a second to drop down.

[@prosilicus]

+AKA-ART Haha I always end up twitching the TV involuntarily in some direction at the last moment even when its on target, for God knows what reason. I'll try it out. Thank you :)

[@EnigmaTanker]

"Let go of the mouse and Keyboard" so many times I have told this to people and no one listens :p

[@prosilicus]

Haha =D

[@marcoling2173]

I agree with most of the video, but for TOW missiles I believe the proper way of using it is to keep you reticle directly on the target as the TOW missile flys to wherever that laser beam ends, though I'm not an expert but I feel like this is the way it works in real life where the laser beam hits a surface and reflects back then received by the launcher or the missile and guides the missile to the reflection point, if that's true I believe if you point your reticle at the sky in real life the missiles won't change path at all since there's no laser reflection received. in this game, both for TOW and SRAW launchers if you keep your reticle on your target I believe it's a guaranteed hit, however right before the missile hits if the reticle is off-target for even 0.1 second will result in missile flying pass the target and even the target is reaquired it takes too long for the missile to do a U-turn. I believe this method is the proper and the most skillful aiming method. Nevertheless most pro players don't do it this way as they prefer aiming the reticle at absolutely void or anything in the background and adjust the path of the missile accordingly, but I feel like the glow and smoke trial of the missile the player sees is not what's actually happening in the game codes, that's probably why I often see people hit target even the missile looks completely off-target and just airbursts near or in some cases quite far away from the target and still registers as a hit, for instance at 7:51 in this video if you play it in slow-mo you can see the missile is nowhere close to the enemy heli when the hitmarker appeared, but this case it not too bad as it's not significantly far away from the target. So my conclusion is, if you use the TOW missiles as shown in this video, although it's reliable most of the time, but it involves a considerable amount of luck as the missile may not be correctly rendered on your screen, the same goes with RPG, you can see a lot more cases where the RPG just airbursts and register as a hit, I personally even have experienced it once where the RPG was ridiculously far off the aircraft but still hit, since then I never used RPG again, I even made a gif of it but I don't know how to post it, but you get the idea. and maybe some tracer rounds are affected by this phenomenon, as mentioned in a previous patch note that the attack heli's tracer rounds used to render incorrectly on the player's screen as in the game the tracer rounds inherited vehicle velocity but not on the player's screen, or the other way around, I couldn't remember. TL; DR: missiles and certain tracer ammunition may not render properly on your screen, the TOW aiming method mentioned in the video could either increase or decrease your chance of hitting the target based on your luck.

[@cosairfps]

Marco Ling how much of your lifetime did you waste writing this comment

[@marcoling2173]

IICosairII a while, but I was interested in this, so I didn't feel like I was wasting time even though it might be. but I had a good point, didn't I?

[@cosairfps]

Marco Ling I didn't read it ;-;

[@marcoling2173]

IICosairII I thought so :D

[@trustmyhustle5562]

Marco Ling you on drugs

[@monsta_royal2095]

Me and one of my friends are beast in an attack chopper, he's the pilot I'm the gunner and we just play siege of shanghai and constantly clear C flag, I went 52-0 earlier

[@honoramd6176]

Monsta_RoYaL my gunner and I went 102-3 and we ended a 43 and 72 killstreak easy

[@denziiey]

nice.. i have a friend and he's an excellent gunner. i mean he is a tv legend lol and i'm an awesome pilot. we got banned from a server cause we were too much on Goldmud XD

[@rage9667]

Im on console would recommend another load out? ECM seems better for console and in open fields instead of extinquisher ??

[@Arty1337_]

I heard that most people prefer using the "Viper heli". Why is that? Are the different? I thought It's just an aesthetic?

[@lucidcortex8444]

Viper is more manueverable and has a smaller air frame which means less colliding with things.

[@TheMassgames]

Better late than never :P

[@123gger]

Go play war pigeon in BF1, you scrub xD

[@cosairfps]

mata-pombos okay calm down kids

[@123gger]

IICosairII it's just some banter between bf1 buddies :P

[@cosairfps]

estrangeiro ≥﹏≤

[@WonderBread23]

how do you steer the missile in first person?

[@veliness7883]

How come some pilots get out of the chopper mid air and quickly get back in? I see cosair do this a lot.

[@mariom4173]

Only in the US helis you can do that (get out and get in quickly). It's difficult to do so in Russian helis

[@lucidcortex8444]

@@mariom4173 ? wat

[@GiantGreenGecko]

Wait so the gunner can have counter measures???

[@votoluen1538]

I have about 100 hours at heli but still cant hit tow

[@kiwithecannabis6922]

How did you get attack helicopter in siege of Shanghai and other map while I don't do I have to be in PC or console or something or do I need To be high level

[@Cause023]

BabyRex spawn in it

[@konstantingorskiy5716]

PLEASE HELP! how do you aim with ZUNI rockets, I just don`t get it. I fire in the middle of it and it doesn`t hit

[@sheudow]

Fire between the crosshair and the I thing

[@konstantingorskiy5716]

@@sheudow I've seen that people say to shoot at the bottom of the I bar, to shoot at the middle of the bar and to shoot between I and between I and crosshair 😂

[@sheudow]

@@konstantingorskiy5716 watch my video that named ♿♿♿ i use pods at the start of the video

[@sheudow]

@@konstantingorskiy5716 quality is so bad i dont even know if you can see the hud lmao

[@lucidcortex8444]

@@konstantingorskiy5716 You actually aim about 75% towards the bottom of the I, and the rockets alternate between the left and right side of it. So your first rocket shoots slightly to the left of the I, and the 2nd rocket shoots slightly to the right side of the I, but you don't really need to account for that if you don't want to, I mainly just aim about 3/4ths of the way towards the bottom of the I.

[@iiqxzzzyii6471]

How do you get better woth aiming the zuni rockets

[@billysuarez4827]

but what if i have no mic?

[@DaCom3AK]

What are your keybindings?

[@takoy67777]

i like This video🤣🤣👍

[@TheRecon]

Do you still have your battlefield 4 server up?

[@AKAARTOFFICIAL]

I think so :D

[@aliidress5619]

Which map

[@amirasyraf2386]

bro whre u from?

[@monster31392]

Now play hardcore, that way you have to go off sound and and free look in the cockpit. The "gaydar" is for the weak.

[@tiberseptim4307]

I have no upgrades for the attack helicopter what do I do to get that class I get raped by the enemy heli who has that class :(

[@chippo1215]

Man i just hydra people or if im the gunner i use one 30mm

[@thomasjansen2080]

Wats the intro song?

[@lillynch4372]

how to reload clip as gunner on Xbox one?

[@samoanmenace6407]

Klipz The WANKUR Press X

[@lucay16]

press x once instead of holding it

[@lillynch4372]

thanks much appreciated ^^

[@lHawkee]

ez heli ez life :3

[@benediktkrauser]

4:13 someone is really mad at you :D and awful at German.

[@grimreaper1586]

It sucks... I have bf4 for ps3 sooo I can't really play attack helicopter on shanghai... sux man

[@TheBarez91]

please please tell me the best key bindings thats my only problem

[@AKAARTOFFICIAL]

I play WASD for movement, X for countermeasure, E for eject, F1/F2 for seatswitch and then my mouse buttons do the big map and reload :D

[@VirtusGaming100]

i cant for the life off me work out how tow is better seekers just give u more flexibility especially when dealling with multible air targets seekers they can track heat sig across the map if u have no direct visability, as for attacking groundd troops 8 zuis can ddoooo uup to 96 max damage i u hit the right parts i can average off 60 - 80 damagge onnn a tank with just zuniz tow missiles are even easier to doge than tvs every tow pilot in my region normally die with in a few seconds but the rest of the stuufff on here is pretty accurate well doone

[@lucidcortex8444]

TOWs are better because you can one shot other air vehicles from any distance. They're also pretty necessary for taking out AAs. Experienced pilots will always beat heatseeker pilots with their TOW missile.

[@asherc.4120]

Salt 100%

[@iimsully2578]

Can’t find a decent pilot:/

[@ahmadalenezi8842]

Play solo

[@Смоллвиль]

Чат заебенный, наши как всегда, ептыть))0

[@eastbirdz1202]

[@horrigan9158]

This guy honestly isn’t even that good.

[@aa1bb2cc3dd4]

Why are you on core... what a terrible mode. Such a novice way to play the game. Show skill by playing HC

[@skylerrodgers1432]

You're a child

[@aa1bb2cc3dd4]

Yes, clearly. Thank you for such an astute observation.

[@TacBandit]

10 month old comment but hardcore is easier. Infantry is so easy to rack up killstreaks, sniping is 1 hit kill and for vehicles since there's no regen and less ammo there are less engineers, so less stinger spam. lack of 3rd person also makes it harder for jets to get you and easier to kill AAs IMO. It's only harder for shit players. Not saying I don't play hardcore but you cannot argue that it's harder.

[@swagnermiteTV]

flying attack jets in hardcore is easier since you can actually lose the stealth jet

[@yodaog6892]

Cosair

[@cosairfps]

Mr Macaco hi