Before last patch I used Rao and tracer dart in the hope that someone could use this and lock on to target. Often I exposed myself and got killed trying and no one took the shot. Now they have reduced the time tracer dart work so waste of time and effort to use this. Now I use soflam - that also spots people and target both vehicles and choppers making all able to lock on - both javelins and recoils (they also could that with tracer dart btw).
Javelin is not worth it - the time it take to lock and shoot vs the time you are exposed to snipers is not worth it. I use recoils all the time - fast up from cover - shoot and then reload behind cover and not getting hit by sniper. Often lucky to hit choppers also. The javelin and stinger should be long range hit weapons but stingers is useless because of the flare reload time. Flare reload time vs stinger lock vs fly time is not ok if still in air and straight line of sight.
Did they also nerf the javelin damage ? Did 3 javelins on a tank one day and that one was still driving - the time to reload / time to lock should not be equal in damage to the recoils !!
But still all in all - this game is way way more fun now than before all of this - so those things above is minor things - the feel of game is fun now !
I also agree here. Designating and locking on have brought much awesome teamplay since such a long time that it really disappoints to see it broken like this.
