# Plea: Use your flares please! **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 3, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222 "2017-10-03T12:14:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Granathar](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/edb3f5/32.png) [@Granathar](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Granathar)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/1 "2017-10-03T12:14:00Z")
Really, why can there be even 15 scouts in my team and NOBODY is flaring? On some maps we are blind as a mole without them and these games are won ALWAYS by team that has scouts actually using flares. They show enemy location for mortars, tank, aircraft and also give other infantry players a tip where they should preaim, so enemy will accuse your team for wallhacking because they can just look on the map and even start shooting before they leave the corner. Flare has like 200 m range, so you can actually hillhump and not be useless if you flare for your team from time to time. Same thing with periscope. Also free points for assist + you can kill some people with them because they cause fire damage. WHY not to use them? ---
**Author:** ![Gmkillers](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Gmkillers](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Gmkillers)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/2 "2017-10-03T12:18:00Z")
Because no one has a clue what they are doing…? It’s BF 1 don’t be surprised if you see people firing them at teamates… ---
**Author:** ![cvnoz](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/cvnoz/32/101598_2.png) [@cvnoz](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/cvnoz)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/3 "2017-10-03T12:32:00Z")
I constantly flare but often support wont give me ammo even if i type in chat or spamming melee on em to get attention of the support and no ammo refill no flare. ---
**Author:** ![olavafar](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/olavafar/32/101046_2.png) [@olavafar](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/olavafar)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/4 "2017-10-03T12:36:00Z")
But I do…you cannot actually play at the front as scout without using the flare. I have a service star on it (well you don’t get a star it seems but I have 100 kills). ---
**Author:** ![CaptaPraelium](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/captapraelium/32/101465_2.png) [@CaptaPraelium](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/CaptaPraelium)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/5 "2017-10-03T12:48:00Z")
> [@cvnoz](#): > > support wont give me ammo. This. ---
**Author:** ![olavafar](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/olavafar/32/101046_2.png) [@olavafar](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/olavafar)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/6 "2017-10-03T12:53:00Z")
@CaptaPraelium Yes, that would actually be nice… Mostly when I run up to a crate to refill the flares I sit there a while just to realize it’s gone (probably because he reloaded and dropped a crate for himself somewhere else). Feel a bit stupid every time :). ---
**Author:** ![CaptaPraelium](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/captapraelium/32/101465_2.png) [@CaptaPraelium](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/CaptaPraelium)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/7 "2017-10-03T12:56:00Z")
Bad support players use crates not pouches, and move them while they’re getting points because they’re bad. Then the bad medics don’t revive the bad assault players who didn’t kill the tank and only chose assault for the shotgun/SMG. Then everyone hates on scouts because it’s always the scouts’ fault. ---
**Author:** ![CS-2107](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9e8a1a/32.png) [@CS-2107](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/CS-2107)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/8 "2017-10-03T13:03:00Z")
> [@CaptaPraelium](#): > > Bad support players use crates not pouches, and move them while they’re getting points because they’re bad. > Then the bad medics don’t revive the bad assault players who didn’t kill the tank and only chose assault for the shotgun/SMG. > Then everyone hates on scouts because it’s always the scouts’ fault. There are still more useful Assaults, Medics and Supports than Scouts. Most ppl confuse Scout with Sniper. Not the same. In a match of Conquest the sniper is mostly useless and the Scout can really help the team out while attacking or defending an objective. ---
**Author:** ![Kattegat\_Twin](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/kattegat_twin/32/102472_2.png) [@Kattegat\_Twin](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Kattegat_Twin)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/9 "2017-10-03T13:07:00Z")
I’m a HC player (or at least I used to be - I can never seem to find a proper HC server anymore on BF1), so I’m used to not using a flare when playing as Scout. However, since I haven’t been able to play HC in ages, I do rock a flare these days when playing Scout. And I have noticed that often I’m the only person doing so. Makes it even worse when there’s only 1 or 2 Supports on the whole team, and neither feel like giving ammo. OK, fine, I guess you don’t want to know if there are any enemies in the area that we’re all running towards, then. And then I get people screaming at me for not popping flares. How am I supposed to do so, when nobody will give me ammo? ---
**Author:** ![Temp1st](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/temp1st/32/103725_2.png) [@Temp1st](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Temp1st)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/10 "2017-10-03T13:08:00Z")
> [@CS-2107](#): > > > [@CaptaPraelium](#): > > > > Bad support players use crates not pouches, and move them while they’re getting points because they’re bad. > > Then the bad medics don’t revive the bad assault players who didn’t kill the tank and only chose assault for the shotgun/SMG. > > Then everyone hates on scouts because it’s always the scouts’ fault. > > There are still more useful Assaults, Medics and Supports than Scouts. Most ppl confuse Scout with Sniper. Not the same. In a match of Conquest the sniper is mostly useless and the Scout can really help the team out while attacking or defending an objective. There is not a very wide array of guns to use for highly aggressive recon like in BF4, There is no ACR to just equip and be extremely helpful to the team with TUGS/Balls and C4. The real close in choices are G95/1895 trench/MH and now the Vetterli-Vitali and in the case of the VV and the MH if you miss your dead most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![boutneus](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@boutneus](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/boutneus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/11 "2017-10-03T13:09:00Z")
Out of ammo, I need ammo!, out of ammo, I need AMMO! RIP ---
**Author:** ![CS-2107](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/9e8a1a/32.png) [@CS-2107](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/CS-2107)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/12 "2017-10-03T13:17:00Z")
> [@Temp1st](#): > > > [@CS-2107](#): > > > > > [@CaptaPraelium](#): > > > > > > Bad support players use crates not pouches, and move them while they’re getting points because they’re bad. > > > Then the bad medics don’t revive the bad assault players who didn’t kill the tank and only chose assault for the shotgun/SMG. > > > Then everyone hates on scouts because it’s always the scouts’ fault. > > > > There are still more useful Assaults, Medics and Supports than Scouts. Most ppl confuse Scout with Sniper. Not the same. In a match of Conquest the sniper is mostly useless and the Scout can really help the team out while attacking or defending an objective. > > There is not a very wide array of guns to use for highly aggressive recon like in BF4, > There is no ACR to just equip and be extremely helpful to the team with TUGS/Balls and C4. > > The real close in choices are G95/1895 trench/MH and now the Vetterli-Vitali and in the case of the VV and the MH if you miss your dead most of the time. Yes there isn’t a wide array, but there are enough to be happy with. When I play scout I mostly use Gewehr M.95 infantry and with this gun you can pretty much play good on close to mid-range. Support your team is really possible with this gun or the guns you mentioned. Of course it takes more skill than an SMG. But the purpose of the scout is to scout and not sitting on a hill somewhere in the back of the map and do not even spot ppl, which still about 75% of the scouts do… ---
**Author:** ![CaptaPraelium](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/captapraelium/32/101465_2.png) [@CaptaPraelium](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/CaptaPraelium)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/13 "2017-10-03T13:27:00Z")
> [@CS-2107](#): > > > [@CaptaPraelium](#): > > > > Bad support players use crates not pouches, and move them while they’re getting points because they’re bad. > > Then the bad medics don’t revive the bad assault players who didn’t kill the tank and only chose assault for the shotgun/SMG. > > Then everyone hates on scouts because it’s always the scouts’ fault. > > There are still more useful Assaults, Medics and Supports than Scouts. Most ppl confuse Scout with Sniper. Not the same. In a match of Conquest the sniper is mostly useless and the Scout can really help the team out while attacking or defending an objective. Only in Battlefield would the community love to poop on a class so disproportionately that they develop a name for the bad players of that one class but not for the bad players in other classes. ---
**Author:** ![Temp1st](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/temp1st/32/103725_2.png) [@Temp1st](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Temp1st)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/14 "2017-10-03T13:30:00Z")
> [@CaptaPraelium](#): > > > [@CS-2107](#): > > > > > [@CaptaPraelium](#): > > > > > > Bad support players use crates not pouches, and move them while they’re getting points because they’re bad. > > > Then the bad medics don’t revive the bad assault players who didn’t kill the tank and only chose assault for the shotgun/SMG. > > > Then everyone hates on scouts because it’s always the scouts’ fault. > > > > There are still more useful Assaults, Medics and Supports than Scouts. Most ppl confuse Scout with Sniper. Not the same. In a match of Conquest the sniper is mostly useless and the Scout can really help the team out while attacking or defending an objective. > > Only in Battlefield would the community love to poop on a class so disproportionately that they develop a name for the bad players of that one class but not for the bad players in other classes. Oh no ill crap on assaults who run away from tanks. Medics that run grenades instead of a syringe. or don’t revive. Supports that don’t give ammo. Tankers who camp and don’t take points Pilots that ignore other planes when in a fighter or an AP. ---
**Author:** ![CaptaPraelium](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/captapraelium/32/101465_2.png) [@CaptaPraelium](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/CaptaPraelium)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/15 "2017-10-03T13:44:00Z")
> [@Temp1st](#): > > Pilots that ignore other planes when in a fighter or an AP. Don’t let bombers off the hook. They do air-to-air perfectly well. In fact, unless you’re in a bomber killer or airship buster (with the rockets) your only counter against an aggressive bomber, is to use your speed and RUN for your life. ---
**Author:** ![boutneus](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@boutneus](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/boutneus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/16 "2017-10-03T13:50:00Z")
So funny when an AP goes 4 the bomber, gets chewed up and tries to run off 4 repairs. I’ll chase m with the bomber over the map and let my front gunner chipchip away. But sometimes the AP is right in front of their face and I spot it. And somehow they still manage to not see it and look off to the side or something lol ---
**Author:** ![PhonB80](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@PhonB80](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/PhonB80)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/17 "2017-10-03T14:03:00Z")
Flares and Smoke can win you games and no one talks about them… kinda like an oline in football. ---
**Author:** ![Astr0damus](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Astr0damus](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Astr0damus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/18 "2017-10-03T14:13:00Z")
It’s a good thread, but unfortunately, it may not last long with that title. ---
**Author:** ![Sword-of-Cyric](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/sword-of-cyric/32/103673_2.png) [@Sword-of-Cyric](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Sword-of-Cyric)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/19 "2017-10-03T14:33:00Z")
I guess a lot of scouts equip k-bullets and trip mines these days thx to the ### service assignments. ---
**Author:** ![von\_Campenstein](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/von_campenstein/32/101003_2.png) [@von\_Campenstein](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/von_Campenstein)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222/20 "2017-10-03T15:08:00Z")
1 Scout popping flares makes all the difference on PDT. That said those diapers proning around the place will never find their way to the forums. [Next page](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/plea-use-your-flares-please/103222.md?page=2)