Whats the point of Soflam if Rao is getting a buff.

Vehicles are mostly used for farming infantry, more than fighting other vehicles. Whether using cannons/rockets on infantry is skillfull, could be debated.

There will be less specialists using rockets after the next patch and many of the ground-vehicles will be buffed (turrets, active armor).

The anti-vehicle rockets are pretty weak in general and reducing their number means that vehicles will probably be easier to use after the patch.

They have to do something to make the engineer class stronger, than it would be without any changes.

But we will have to see how things turn out.

As a former Rao+SOFLAM main.

99% of pilots worth killing will flare at the beginning of the hack.

Even if the vehicle is hacked/targeted no one can take advantage of it due to the flares. It's not a doomsday scenario.

That said I do agree that SOFLAM now seems rather pointless based on what we do know.  Lis seems clearly the best anti-vehicle specialist and cannot benefit from SOFLAM.  SOFLAM locks are still easily countered by flares, it's unlikely any M5/FXM user is sending a missile unless they suspect flares are still recharging.

Lastly the re-introduction of the 3D spot mechanic is not only faster, but free version of the SOFLAM spotting feature.  

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@UP_LordPlumber wrote:
@AdamonicThat kills the point of using Soflan though. Why bother taking Soflan if you can hack and paint at the same time? Unless they buff soflam in some way.

For example to keep the lock even through flares, now that would be interesting. But then they would have to add ECM Jammer back

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Hack has half the range of soflam.  Also, flares act as an ecm in thin game

It's funny, now that you mention it, I don't think I've seen a SOFLAM-painted target in a couple of weeks (and I play a lot).  

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@ATFGunr wrote:
@PrshutGive Soflam the ability to lock thru stealth and it would be very useful.

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yes please

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@Prshut wrote:

Disabling vehicles is already one of the strongest abilities in the game and someone thought its good idea to make him even more broken. Most vehicles are already weak as it is and giving Rao ability to auto-paint them is neither skillful nor balanced. This means that any 2 players in voice can destroy every vehicle in the game without even needing to switch the gadget to soflam.

Vehicles should be strong and there should be skill required to operate them as well as destroy them. Vehicle 1v1s should be the main problem for vehicles, not infantry.

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Whew, thanks for the laugh.

another Nerf Teamwork Post.