Jumping into the cockpit of a helicopter in Battlefield 2042 can often be more trouble than it's worth. You gain a fat stack of miniguns and missiles, but taking to the skies also means becoming enemy number one for every RPG-strapped engineer on the other team.
Any pilot worth their salt is used to dodging rockets, but Battlefield streamer AsheBF has it much harder. When he takes flight, he's often greeted by a squad of stream-snipers dedicated to killing him and only him. Ashe says he's been getting harassed in-game for almost a year, often by the same group of people, but he puts up a very impressive fight. AsheBF has essentially spent the last year in a kung fu training montage and mastered the art of being like water, except he's dodging missiles instead of fists and also his body is a helicopter.
Here you can see him essentially 1v24 a helicopter, two jets, ground vehicles, and god knows how many engineers steering manually-controlled RPGs in his direction (as shared by Jake Lucky on Twitter):
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An intense, suspenseful, and undeniably cool display of helicopter dominance there. It's impressive how long AsheBF, who almost exclusively takes the pilot role in Battlefield, is able to last with so many crosshairs on him, but he's not John Wick-ing across the skies because he loves the thrill. He's forced to play this way because wherever he goes, stream-snipers follow.
In a stream earlier today, AsheBF says the harassment campaign against him started because of a «small beef» with a few players and has been going on for about 10 months now.
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