Wasn't it not five pages back that people were complaining that MANPADS were ridiculously good against jets and it made it unbalanced?
Don't know, don't care. Bad pilots get eaten alive by stingers, good pilots are essentially immune to them.
Yes, I'm a bad pilot.
now it'll probably (hopefully) require 2 people to kill 1 jet, which I personally find a lot more balanced.
It already did, unless the pilot sucked. Watch this video to learn why. Nervous noobs (that's me!) pop their flares when they hear solid tone. People who have any idea what they're doing hold until the missile is in flight.
What? This is how everyone flies. Even if a pilot is "good" by YOUR definition, I can still kill them if they're using their flares like that.
All you have to do is get a decent enough vantage point on their flightpath, lock before they pass you, fire, they have no choice but to blow their flares because your missile starts too close to them for them not to, mean while you're already reload/relocking on to them for the second missile which will hit them before their flares recharge.
On Conquest there's a slight chance they'll get away from you in that if they go very low and very fast (afterburner) they might get out of sight before your second missile anyway, but the idea still works if your vantage point is good enough.
The only problem is not getting shot while you're doing it, but even then if you're clever about the spot you picked you've stingered the fighter from more or less behind cover and the area behind you is very exposed for you to line up the second shot.
*Helps loads if you have high mouse sense so you can track it even going overhead.
Then again I play with people at the skill level where we dumbfire jets and choppers with RPGs for ****s'n'giggles.
