What is the point of Soflam?
Really, what's the point if you still have to get an AA lock on before firing and it can be flared away even through the Soflam lock? Or am I missing something here?
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It allows Javelins and friendly vehicles to also lock to your target and also spots enemies for your entire team. I’d say that extremely powerful and why it’s one of the last gadget unlocks.
@I_DYN4MO_I yep... anti air launcher shoot on ground targets and rocket launcher on air targets, especially the normal rocket launcher is more powerful and needs less hits get air down.
SOFLAM was my primary gadget for a long time.
But Season 1 (indirectly) nerfed it into the ground and I don't use it nearly as much anymore.
1 The G-84 receives no benefit from the SOFLAM. All those anti-vehicle minded players chosing the G-84 over the M5 or Stinger meant there was significantly fewer potential SOFLAM partners.
2. SOFLAM can't lock onto a stealth heli (while stealthed) which has become the most common air vehicle. Sure you can hack, but that effectively doubles your lock on time and halves your lock on range.
Between those two things I'd wager my SOFLAM assists per round went down by half.
DICE did buff the SOFLAM from 400m to 450m, but it's not nearly enough to over come those issues.
Also spotting infantry is pretty buggy with the SOFLAM. I have to constantly zoom in and out to get it to spot some times. Occasionally I'll get what appears to be full LoS on an infantry and it just refuses to spot.
@AngrySquid270 wrote:SOFLAM was my primary gadget for a long time.
But Season 1 (indirectly) nerfed it into the ground and I don't use it nearly as much anymore.
1 The G-84 receives no benefit from the SOFLAM. All those anti-vehicle minded players chosing the G-84 over the M5 or Stinger meant there was significantly fewer potential SOFLAM partners.
2. SOFLAM can't lock onto a stealth heli (while stealthed) which has become the most common air vehicle. Sure you can hack, but that effectively doubles your lock on time and halves your lock on range.
Between those two things I'd wager my SOFLAM assists per round went down by half.
DICE did buff the SOFLAM from 400m to 450m, but it's not nearly enough to over come those issues.
Also spotting infantry is pretty buggy with the SOFLAM. I have to constantly zoom in and out to get it to spot some times. Occasionally I'll get what appears to be full LoS on an infantry and it just refuses to spot.
And the fact that the SOFLAM has a zoom function that is worthless as it doesn't spot anything that is further away...
