If you're talking about Blackbird, it only took 8 kills (7 w/ Hardline) and it showed the enemy for 45 seconds which was absolutely gamechanging. Realistically it should have been atleast an 11 killstreak.

This is where the community is spiraling further and further out of control. So many people have become absolutely reliant on having to see red dots on their screen. They don't adapt and adjust according. Ghost was only useful if you continue using what it directly counters. If you stop using it, that player is essentially wasting a perk slot.

Getting a Blackbird was so much harder considering that the pointstreak system didn't exist & killstreaks did not stack. (for me it was anyways).

I do agree that once you got the Blackbird, it was game changing unless your teammates were idiots, it was countered by the counter spy plane or the enemy team used Decoys & Jammers.

And yes, I came across idiots who could not get a kill whilst a Blackbird was in the air.

Actually, thermal screws me over more when a whole team is rocking Assassin because they blend in with everything. If we could turn it on and off, i'd leave it off. I don't need thermal scopes because i'm not bad at spotting people, but when an Assassin user is in your thermal scope, it's almost impossible to see him, especially if he's moving straight towards or away from you.

Recon  flash bang puts assasin users on the map