My issue with the stinger

[TheBlueFox]

TLDR ; I think the stinger is fine with a longer lock on range. Otherwise Helis can still fight effectively while out of range.

As it stands, the stinger launcher is one of the more effective tools for dealing with helis. However this tool doesn't seem as effective as you would think.

It has a 450 meter lock range, which on paper SOUNDS nice, but seeing as how the king of the hill maps that allow helicopters are fairly large, it's rather easy to fight from out of lock range.

Helis are also notified by the DIRECTION of lockon, so they know which direction to flee to.

It also takes 3 stingers to take down a heli. 1 to force them to smoke (If they're not a bad pilot who smokes when they hear the first beeps), and if they're stupid and stay, 2 more to knock them out of the air, sometimes 3.

Armored vehicles SHOULD take teamwork to take down, they're power weapons for a reason, but I feel like the 450 meter range could be extended, that way more people on the map have a chance at targeting the helicopter

[panzerkat]

It's been a constant complaint since the earlier beta's. Range is stupidly, stupidly short and the damage..... might as well be chucking paintballs at them. It shouldn't take 2-3 stingers to take down either of the heli's, but especially the Recon. That thing should be a glass cannon if anything and should be 1 shot. The Apache, maybe 2 tops. But the way it is now the Stingers are pretty useless UNLESS you have a team that actually works together, which is rare it seems.

[TheBlueFox]

Originally posted by panzerkat:

It's been a constant complaint since the earlier beta's. Range is stupidly, stupidly short and the damage..... might as well be chucking paintballs at them. It shouldn't take 2-3 stingers to take down either of the heli's, but especially the Recon. That thing should be a glass cannon if anything and should be 1 shot. The Apache, maybe 2 tops. But the way it is now the Stingers are pretty useless UNLESS you have a team that actually works together, which is rare it seems.

A friend and I have had some moderate success with the Javelin + Soflam combo. I run soflams and he runs a jav. Often times poor pilots will smoke after my Soflam lockon, leaving them defenseless to any stingers the rest of my team uses. But if they get stubborn and stay, the Javelin is ALMOST a 1 shot on them. Often times it is because they might be flying at like... 70 or 80% hp