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9c486r9yb4ts's avatar
2 years ago

SOFLAM curse still exists

So went back to playing battlefield 2042 because I heard the game got largely fixed. I saw we have the class system back so of course I play my most played class in all the games "Recon". I tried using the tracking dart but I feel I have to use it at close range because it has travel time which is tough to use against aircrafts. So I fall back on the soflam only to see nobody ever firing a rocket at what I mark. It was like battlefield 4 all over again. I even put in chat that I'm using the soflam to take down the chopper which is been going 86 and 0 and still I see no rocket being fired at it. I feel like some people are literally brick walls https://100001.onl/  https://1921681254.mx/  .

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  • Shibiwan's avatar
    Shibiwan
    Rising Veteran
    2 years ago

    @9c486r9yb4tsI will fire my missiles from my heli at anything that has been targeted by a soflam. More often than not, the targeting is lost before I can deal sufficient damage to destroy it. Perhaps they should make it last a little longer. 


  • @9c486r9yb4ts wrote:

    I even put in chat that I'm using the soflam to take down the chopper which is been going 86 and 0 and still I see no rocket being fired at it. I feel like some people are literally brick walls.


    1) Lis is probably the top pick for engineers.  She gets no benefit from SOFLAM. 

    2) Gadget ammo is quite limited in 2042.  No reliable resupply stations, unlike BFV. Only 3-4 rockets, unlike BF4 where you could get ~7.

    3) Flares are really really good in 2042 and will break SOFLAM locks.  Players are reluctant to expend their limited ammo only to see it get eaten by a flare.

    4) Range/Line of sight limits the number of people that can take the shot.

    5) SOFLAM designations are only visible when players have a compatible launcher equiped.  Most people are running with the primaries and are unaware of the designations.

    5) I believe there was a recent bug (unsure if fixed) that prevented others from seeing SOFLAM designations even when they had compatible launches equipped.

    DICE has made SOFLAM'ing (and darting) impractical for casual coordination among randoms. Unless you have a squadmate on the same page you are wasting your time with those gadgets.

    Even in the scenario where you have a coordinated duo I'd argue that (2 ) Ewelina's spamming G-84's would be more effective. SOFLAM and darts could use some love.

  • @AngrySquid270 I dont see DICE rebalancing the silly flares system either, as long as flares exist like they do know, there is no point in using soflam or dart unless the heli is real close. And good pilots never come real close.
  • @9c486r9yb4ts The game just put you in a server filled with bots to frustate you.

    It is impossible that everybody with 64 teammates have exactly the same experience.

    No medics revives,
    No one uses RPG / AA.
    When you use the medic, no one waits for revives.

    You always get killed from behind.
    All the coordinated squads are in the other team, while you are with 64 lone randoms.

    This must be because the game just drops you with bots...
  • @9c486r9yb4ts
    there was a time that the other players could not see that the enemy is designated by the soflam.

    I do not know if they fixed it now.
  • @9c486r9yb4ts Soflam is for spotting people nothing else. Everything is countered by flares, smoke, reactive armor - waste of rockets. Dice made the countermeassures way way to op. Javelin is the biggest joke of them all !

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