Improved stingers/iglas

[SpeedyGonzales]

Re: Improved stingers/iglas

NOT HARDLY! I was on Oman today. I had a noob in a Blackhawk hovering over the flag next to me. I had a straight shot. He hardly moved and he didn't drop flares. I shot at him 8, that's right, 8 times and they all missed. It was embarrassing and just stupid. His AH-1 came up behind me and blew me away. I was stunned at how crappy these so-called new and improved stingers/iglas are. Yeah, they are going to take down jets. Sure. They can't even take down a stationary BH from a short distance.

yeah the AA still sucks.
almost useless, any decent chopper pilot will take you down before
you get your 4-5 misses and 1 hit on him..


I cant believe there is no shoulder fired AA in this game.. it would be nice
not to have to be stationary to fight these chopper whores..

Choppers are still WAY too powerful after the patch... Anyone who
has half a brain can tell you a Tank round ANYWHERE on a chopper
more than likely means the end of that chopper..

I still see these chopper bozos spinnin around the bases spammin the
rockets and gunner spammin the big gun takin everyone down.. and
nothing really you can do about it besides spawn elsewhere.

[Cutter]

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Concur, I don't think they were tweaked at all.

[Jack Lavender]

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I actually noticed a huge drop in effectiveness of air-to-air missiles. Flying directly behind an enemy jet with a good lock and no flares, they mysteriously missed every time. I let loose all six and they all missed.

[Ghost-Three-Four]

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Bah! Just use a .50 cal nearby if available..that works wonders on low flying helos! :evil: Rips the sh** out of 'em.

[imported_idash]

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I think the stingers have improved alot.

I believe they are a lot better than before!

[yuliang01]

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My impression:the stinger is improved a lot against friendly aircraft, they are accurate and deadly when chasing team vehicle .

[Oxy]

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I haven't noticed a lot of difference in them. Was flying around all today and it's still very easy to go entire rounds in a jet without getting shot down once.

[vbl]

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I'm sorry, I didn't catch what you said - I've been waiting to respawn after trying to shoot a helicopter down with an IGLA.

[ttopi]

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You still don't give any credit to pilots or their skills, do you? Good pilots can evade those missiles. No matter what you are flying you should be able to evade missiles, if you know what you are doing. Right timing of flares and correct movement is the key to surviving in the air.

[Marwin_42]

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Yeah, I thought they should fix it in the patch too?!

Played last night on several maps, and the other team had excellent pilots. We where blown to pieces :cry: I couldn´t hit anything with the stingers, except my own co-players. IT SUCKS!

[Edwood]

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They still won't hit jets, not even close.

-Ed

[Beerman]

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well when im in a jet those missles are harder to dodge i get hit 4/10 with them unlike before 0/10.

[menace-uk-]

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Me and a freind tested the stingers out last night i fired them and he hit F11 to look behind him and they followed him for sometime then we tried them with the old patch and i must say they have been improved alot although if you fire them infront of the jet they make two big turns 1 to go to the rear of the and then 1 to follow the plane which makes it easier for the pilot to keep out running them.

[motorboatJones]

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You still don't give any credit to pilots or their skills, do you? Good pilots can evade those missiles. No matter what you are flying you should be able to evade missiles, if you know what you are doing. Right timing of flares and correct movement is the key to surviving in the air.

Well, if you read MY original message I was talking about an almost stationary BH hovering and not dropping flares.

It was lame. Tonight on Wake I did get shot down by a stinger while flying that Chinese J-8. I was coming in low and slow so I'm not surprised I got shot down. I have been trying to figure out that target box thing in the HUD. It's so tiny and it flashes so fast you have to have 4 eyes to see it. A good pilot in this game, just like in the real world, has to have very good eyes.

[Ghiest]

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they are basically useless still ... far from hitting a thing :/

I was in a chopper today and had a lock on i just side swiped to the right saw them fly miles off and take out the chopper i was trying to fire at about 100 meters in the wrong freaking direction of what I was.