Is it my imagination, or has BFV become one giant flare festival? Sniper flares I can live with… kinda. At least u can shoot them down. Everything else is a joke. It’s WW2, right?? But planes shoot flares 12,000 feet in the air like Baby Drones. Can’t shoot them down and they last like an hour. Tank shoots at u, you’re spotted. Doesn’t matter that it didn’t even hit you. Sniper nicks u, spotted, even if u heal yourself. Pull a nice flank, never mind, the flares will give it away. Not sure if it was designed to stop the campers, but in my opinion, it’s negatively hurting players playing objectives. Really ruining what fun was left in the game.
Plane flares can be destroyed
I guess altitude doesn’t help to shoot them down
Honestly they should just scap Breakthrough, most objectives are borderline impossible to defend anyway with the BS 360 degree flanks, now the whole battlefield can be lit up by a single aircraft batch dropping flares all over the place, at high altitude, with a huge spotting radius.
Yes spotting is a horrible problem right now. It’s the reason I barely play this game anymore. People who don’t play the objective doesn’t understand the frustrating experience of being spotted 95% of the time on a objective.
And to the idiots saying shoot them down so you can give away your position looking up at the sky as enemies swarm you. That’s a worthless and idiotic thing to do.
When one flare can spot an entire objective area that’s a problem. It turns the flare from a tactical thing to use to a shoot and forget tactic that is beyond cheap and only in the game for bad players.
Plane flares that cannot be seen from the ground should not be able to spot you. Flares over cover such as caves, tunnels, forest, buildings, should not reveal players either.
In another thread someone suggested getting rid of all spotting except the recon flare and scope. No more plane flares, sniper and mmg role spotting, tank spotting or any others I’ve missed. I wouldn’t mind seeing that.
I always preferred the spotting a player manually. You’ve seen them, you’ve spotted them. It’s been part of the game forever. It was pretty much accepted as part of the title
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, they should make it so that flares dropped from planes only become active once they’re less than like 125m from the ground
Just use a sidearm qnd save your ammo. Works for me.
This.
Youve just exposed yourself to the “i cant see therefore we all need flares and ez spotting” crowd. Good luck lol
Tried to play again lasted 10 min spotted the whole time and spent it shooting down flares. Back to #4 hardcore for me.
Flares = plausible deniability.
It has become way over the top with the flares, I have no problems being spotted by a sniper, they are recon, or hit by support with their MG, but when you add planes spamming the skies with them, tanks also can shoot them in the air, tanks marking you with their shells, it becomes almost impossible to flank without always being seen.
Its now part of the game to be going along and then see “You are Spotted!” out of the blue, not even around the action and you stop look around in the skies…nope, sniper? MG? Tank? Then run around to try and lose it..don’t work, look up again … nothing, say screw it and start a straight assault as you know you can’t flank or do much else and bam..your dead. Respawn and go a little ways and “You are Spotted!” at another location…rinse and repeat.
Remove plane flares and tank flares, Tankers and Planes are not recon, if you give them flares, why not Assault, Medics, and Support too, make everyone have it!
They need to remove the minimap spotting
Fixes the problem while not having anything massive to tweak
Can medic noobs stop crying about recon please?
Learn to read
I have read. Another whining thread about flares. Nothing new.
Should people who mainly spend their time prone in deathmatch even talk?
Should Assault tryhards judge support mains?