Stinger Balance Idea

@CrimpyPlace6.

Well the stingers only lock on up to 400m now but if you wanna bump the range up to 500m I'm all for it

I'm guessing you haven't tried to run them much as infantry if you think they are overpowered.

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@Ironhead841 wrote:

@CrimpyPlace6.

Well the stingers only lock on up to 400m now but if you wanna bump the range up to 500m I'm all for it

I'm guessing you haven't tried to run them much as infantry if you think they are overpowered.

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Yep I can definitely accept an increase to 500m and I agree they are definitely not overpowered.

Is it just me imagining it or did they extend the length that flares last.

They seem to release the main flare and then there are trickles that seem to last a few seconds and you can't lock on. ?

@CrimpyPlace6EZMode not EZEnuff?

Seriously, it takes 4 stingers to bring down a bird. Even if we get a lock, which you can prevent with obstacles, the missiles dont hit because

1.  They're bugged as hell.   They fly off in all directions.
2.  You out range them when you hear tone
3.  You LOS them
4.  Ridiculously low time for flares to renew

If anything needs to be done to the AA, it is fixing their targeting.   It is hella frustrating to get good tone in this game, and the missile flys off in the opposite direction and explodes.

The only time my AA words every time is on Drones now.   Even with SOFLAM'd targets half the time they miss

NOTHING needs to be done to the AA to improve birds life expectancy.   Pilot Better

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@Padding_Ur_Stats wrote:

@CrimpyPlace6EZMode not EZEnuff?

Seriously, it takes 4 stingers to bring down a bird. Even if we get a lock, which you can prevent with obstacles, the missiles dont hit because

1.  They're bugged as hell.   They fly off in all directions.
2.  You out range them when you hear tone
3.  You LOS them
4.  Ridiculously low time for flares to renew

If anything needs to be done to the AA, it is fixing their targeting.   It is hella frustrating to get good tone in this game, and the missile flys off in the opposite direction and explodes.

The only time my AA words every time is on Drones now.   Even with SOFLAM'd targets half the time they miss

NOTHING needs to be done to the AA to improve birds life expectancy.   Pilot Better

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Both sides are bugged. Stingers don’t lock properly even when I’m clearly painting the target and missiles fly off in the opposite direction randomly. In the air the lock on notification doesn’t always work I’ll get hit with a missile without a full lock on notification. Flares don’t always work and the missile will still find me even while I’m still flaring. Both sides need to be fixed.

@Joe234567891011

And stingers are not dodgeable at all so idk why people have been pushing that narrative.

Dodge is a bad word.  You can interpose objects to block the missile.

That being said, flares cooldown is pretty short and it takes 4 missiles to bring you down.  Missiles do not need nerfed

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@Padding_Ur_Stats wrote:

@Joe234567891011

And stingers are not dodgeable at all so idk why people have been pushing that narrative.

Dodge is a bad word.  You can interpose objects to block the missile.

That being said, flares cooldown is pretty short and it takes 4 missiles to bring you down.  Missiles do not need nerfed

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It takes 2 hits to bring me down but I get why you say 4 bc you need me to pop before you can hit me. I get it. I’m not asking for a missile nerf. I’m saying they need to fix the bugs bc if they actually worked as intended I do believe they are powerful tools. 

for the dodge part, I deleted my first comment bc I sounded like I was whining. You got to it faster than I could delete so that’s what happened there 

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@Padding_Ur_Stats wrote:
@Joe234567891011

We old farts are faster then you think

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Haha indeed we are. 

Honest question on the dodging part. I see you calling flying ez mode. Do you not see it as skill when a pilot can fly low and put objects between the bird and the missile? To me it takes a lot of skill to do that it’s not like I picked up the game and learned how to do that overnight. I get the complaints with the stingers not working properly and actually agree. However I will never understand the mentality that pilots have no skill and that it’s easy. It’s usually people with no flight experience saying these kinds of things.

EZMode <> No Skill