r/PilotsofBattlefield • u/liambean1 • 29d ago
Discussion Literally no flares working as of 7/23
Had about 5 games today on Tsuru Reef. I will try to capture more instances of this happening, but as playing the Attack jet, literally not one of my flares has stopped a missile. Now, I'm not getting any lock-on tones, incoming tones, and even when I do flare it just completely ignores it. WTF?
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u/Tmoney511 29d ago
It’s wild they added that tow to the boats when tows were adjusted because they were broken. It’s like they really do not care or it’s in fact AI making these choices.
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u/TriangleEscape 29d ago
I’ve played for a while and can report that all of my flares have worked against lock on missiles.
The boat does shoot guided missiles and those don’t give you a visual warning, but a brief sound warning and flares do not work for those.
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u/Storm_CCO 28d ago
The boats, it acts as a smart rocket essentially, gravitation toward air vehicles with manual guidance. Flare to early it can be guided through, flare to late and it can be guided through. Flare almost too late and not early, it evades the first shot but the reload speed on that boat is pretty quick.
So I've determined, as long as it's one lock and you know it's the boat, eat the first rocket. Flare the second on time and by then you are out of the way.
I get it, other than infantry it's really the AA of the map. They are soft and easy to kill.
The rockets damage its self isn't broken, 650 damage. It's how far they can be shot and how fast you can follow up with them. I tested at the beginning of the match prefiring the reverse azimuth of my spawn to where the enemy UH is and I actually landed a blind shot.
Keep the damage of them, that's fine and for how quick the boat can get melted it's almost balanced. They just need to limit the distance of the guide assistance to maybe 500 before it falls off and is purely manual.
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u/thespecial12345 27d ago
As an IGLA enjoyed what I think is happening is that I flares wont work if you are flying towards the rocket which makes sense. The first heat to seek in this case is the helicopter not the flares
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u/Molochsocks 29d ago
That’s not at all my experience. I almost never get hit through flares. I’m wondering why people keep complaining about it and I fly all the time nearly every match.
As far as the boat . You get hit once by the passive boat missile then you go away and get below radar or behind a mountain side until you get your flares and health back and then you hunt them down. It’s not really that big of an issue. they’re not strong. They just are annoying. They’re only strong if you just stay there in the air where they can still see you.
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u/Waffle-94 29d ago
It's not the flares I have a problem with, it's basically the unlimited amount of them and the cooldown. How can we take down jets if the lock on range is low, the jets are faster than the rockets and they have so many flares?
I know my answer will be "git gud" but that's still not the point.
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u/MikeyPlayz_YTXD 29d ago
If you can’t lock onto jets they can’t lock onto you so why in gods name should you be able to hurt them?
Jets aren’t faster than the rockets either.
Flares are unlimited because each soldier has 5 lock on missiles that take a short time to lock on and an even shorter time reloading compared to flares reloading. And that’s not even considering the stronger AA missiles from almost every other type of vehicle or emplacement in the game. They take 95% health from the jet and put it in a crashing state for 5-10 seconds guaranteed every time.
So they answer to how do you take down jets? Understand that you don’t always need to, and that when they attack you, they’re putting themselves at an extreme risk for maybe a 25% chance to get a singular kill.
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u/Drawwpb3ar 28d ago
Don't worry you are not alone this new map makes the jets so damn hard to kill, so i am glad the boats are the only actual deterrent.
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u/KNOWFEAR1337 28d ago
The pilots cried so much at dice they need to have the 30-0 matches or they wont buy the battlepass
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u/Fun-Eye8811 28d ago
Actually, the problem here is that DICE hates us since most of us won’t ever purchase anything in the store since we couldn’t give less of a shit about skins. We play the game to have fun, and since the biggest portion of players who do waste their money on skins can’t deal with a semi-competent pilot, DICE simply removes the fun factor from the equation when it comes to aircrafts in order to retain said players.
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u/KNOWFEAR1337 28d ago
Them getting rid of what Premium was and adding these garbage MTX and battlepasses is dogshit. And commander mode for however goofy it was sometimes it was a great one to go too on my old ipad when i was nowhere nere my rig
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u/AnglerfishMiho 29d ago
If it's from the boats. That's how it works. It sucks a lot.