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Re: 2042 SOFLAM is BFV Binoculars + Supercharged BF4 SOFLAM

@SpudBug You make some good points, I hadn’t even realized it maintains lock after putting it away. It should work for spotting but you should need to use Q, not the current auto feature now. Helps do get a tone when locked on, although it doesn’t differentiate between missiles and Soflam. If you get a tone and nobody shoots (see it all the time, nobody shoots, c’mon!) then you know it’s a Soflam. It would be fairly easy to make a second tone. Ultimately I don’t think it makes a difference if you’re cool and don’t pop your flares before a lock on tone of an incoming missile. AA rockets or Soflam or other aircraft, makes no real difference until the rocket comes in. If anything a jet locking on should be a different tone.

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  • @ATFGunr I think because its a one shot kill there should be a higher level of warning when SOFLAM locked vs regular AA lock. Thats fair to me. I really dont think there should be a lock on one shot kill for helis but if it has to be that way, give the pilots the info that it may be coming.
  • ATFGunr's avatar
    ATFGunr
    Legend
    4 years ago
    @SpudBug At least it’s only the Nightbird that’s one hit. Apache & Hokum are two, and the Hind takes three, maybe four. I still get eaten by Nightbirds regularly lol.
  • Wrong, the bf4 soflam  did not need anyone looking through it to be effective.     

    You made another topic about this, this is #3 now?

  • SpudBug's avatar
    SpudBug
    4 years ago
    @fragnstein Youre right, the SOFLAM in bf4 was a completely different gadget that needed to be set in place and only pointed in one direction.

    The soflam in 2042 is more like a super powerful PLD that allows you to use it anytime while also locking targets without maintaining line of sight or exposing yourself by using the gadget.

    So I agree with you, the 2042 soflam is way overpowered!
  • X-Sunslayer-X's avatar
    X-Sunslayer-X
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @SpudBug well first off the SOFLAM has scope glint if used. it even has a red colour to it....
    secondly vehicles in 2042 are a lot more opressive i.E there is a lot more of them.
    thirldy map design is so abhorrently bad you can not even ambush vehicles reliably as you could in other games...
    so go fish
  • SpudBug's avatar
    SpudBug
    4 years ago
    @X-Sunslayer-X The scope glint on soflam isn't visible in most circumstances.
    And the map design works against air vehicles as well. There is very little aerial cover to use to avoid incoming stingers and soflam m5 that doesnt involve running to the ends of the map, especially in maps like discarded.
  • X-Sunslayer-X's avatar
    X-Sunslayer-X
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @SpudBug man i guess all these top-scoring chopper players are just simply cheating then.....
    Discarded has tons of line of sight breakers, as does Kaleidoscope, Hourglass (besides the open desert) Orbital, Breakaway as well....
    but hey i know sitting in choppers in 2042 must be a chore by the looks of it....

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