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1)Attack Helicopter has got no flares
2)Harrier has got no flares
3)Pave Low has got 1 flare
4)Chopper Gunner has got 1 flare
5)AC130 has got 2 flares

But I see on a regular basis harriers and attack helicopters shoot flares. Sometimes even more than one.
Unfortunately I don't have a capture card, so I never bothered to record matches, but I swear I've personally tried to take down a Harrier with my stinger only to have it fly up to 3 (three!) flares, so I had to reload with scavenger to take it down.

I believe that only happened once though, but most often the attack heli and the harrier do fire 1 flare, sometimes 2 (I think harrier only).

So what is the deal with flares? Are those killstreak rewards supposed to release flares, or not?

This pisses me off, because in most matches your team (when you play with strangers) will never switch to an AA class to take them down, so not only I have to kill myself to switch because the team is getting butchered, but then I also have to waste precious time to take them down because they will release those stupid flares even though they are not supposed to (and in some maps you will get killed a couple times in the process, because it can be hard to acquire lock on them).


Edit: I just noticed my rep went from 10 to 0 because of this thread. Looks like we have some really mature people around here..

I've seen the harriers shoot flares sometimes. Once it deflected 2 of my Stinger missiles! It's really hard to know if IW put it there or if some hackers fudged it up, cos there's too many hacks going on in this game.

nah dude dont think its a hack as this happens on ps3 aswell, i know 360 has got quite a few hacks for it but the ps3 doesnt really have many working online hacks

ya usually there 1 stinger kills, i have taken an ac130 down with 1 javelin though, hahaha

a javalin cant shoot down a ac-130, it doesn't go high enough for a start, and when ive tried it doesn't lock on

lol wtf that sucks.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljw8ei0EcKk&feature=related"]YouTube- Javelin fail! MW2[/ame]

i feel hes pain

Yeah lol...

Edit: I just noticed my rep went from 10 to 0 because of this thread. Looks like we have some really mature people around here..

AT4 barely locks on, if they move slightly the missile misses.

I nevar noticed! thanks!