The Battlefield 6 development team announced adjustments to neutral vehicle spawn points on the Las Vegas Boulevard map, replacing attack helicopters with transport helicopters. This change responds to strong player feedback regarding the map experience, aiming not to completely remove aerial vehicles but to reduce their dominance over ground combat.
Las Vegas Boulevard features a dense high-rise environment, where lines of sight and movement routes can easily become chaotic. Attack helicopters can use buildings for cover to repeatedly enter and exit the battlefield while attacking enemy players from the air, leaving ground forces with limited space to counter.
PCGamesN authors noted that while skilled attack helicopter pilots are difficult to deal with on other maps as well, players can still counter them through patience and coordination; however, the abundant high-rise cover on Las Vegas Boulevard further amplifies this imbalance.
Transport helicopters retain some offensive capabilities and can handle transport tasks, albeit at a slower speed. The author believes ground players should find it easier to counter them. Currently, the development team has only confirmed the vehicle type change at this spawn point, without announcing a specific date or patch version for the adjustment, nor clarifying whether other vehicle spawns on the map will be changed simultaneously.