Soldato
- Joined
- 24 Mar 2011
- Posts
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- Kent
Flares are by no means a waste, I've managed to escape the evil clutches of Tomcat whores what feels like 70% of the time since they were released.
I find coming to a stop as quickly as possible the second the lock starts, swing around and fire the flares at the very last millisecond works very well - if you turned to face him in time you'll be able to start unloading with your machine gun before he does, or he'll zip past you and you now have his tail to gun down.
Well then you must be a much better pilot than most, 95% of the reavers I see aren't exactly what you'd call good pilots. See plenty who are totally one-tracked into shooting down a lib they fail to notice the enemy aircraft that's just flew in front of their nose and is currently flying 50ft behind them

Scythe pilots, now I've seen a few tricky little buggers in them
those things are hard to keep behind if the pilot is any good. Most NC pilots just dump flares and use their aferburner bug to outrun the rockets 
