Poor poor airborne so shit without smoke. so good with it.
this has always been the case. If you want to use AB you HAVE to use smoke and pay ridiculous MP for a bunch of short range AT weapons. Otherwise your out of shit luck.
AB in smoke is no more difficult to counter than regular inf in smoke.
To me AB has always in EIR been lacking. Now i see a top t4 that is somewhat interesting, granted some of the new buffs may play out to be more unbalanced than in theory.
Hopefully smoke spam is gone now that smoke drop has been nerfed