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with the recent development of the flare, is the taclight next step in the game? -This is not a suggestion- Just wondering..

Its not impossible, it would just take quite a bit of cleaning up to get it to the point that we could really use it. Not saying it would be put in though.

Yuck, imo that would feel too much like PR:SWAT4, but I guess it's realistic for modern armies.

Hotrod525 wrote:with the recent development of the flare, is the taclight next step in the game? -This is not a suggestion- Just wondering..

Flashlights are some of most stupid things you can attach on weapon, just below lasers.

IRL there is a thing called peq box; can shoot IR flashlight and laser.

And since we have no NVG in night maps in PR, no reason to have it .

IR flashlight? sounds fuckin awesome never heard of that, I know of IR lasers but can't begin to think how IR flashlights work


.... does it just emit a really big IR light or something?

yellodeath wrote:IR flashlight? sounds fuckin awesome never heard of that, I know of IR lasers but can't begin to think how IR flashlights work


.... does it just emit a really big IR light or something?

Sure. There are IR flashlights, flares, floodlights...

Besides the obvious, IR radiation is fundamentally no different from visible light. It's the differences that make it useful in surveillance/stealth applications.

It's kinda already in the game... we got thermal cameras on many vehicles

I fail to understand though what the purpose would be of a IR flashlight when it means you should be wearing Night-vision goggles to see it. You would be able to be spotted by friendly Thermal cameras in insurgency and you could communicate with others by Morse code i suppose , but why not just use regular NVG?

Since NVG is broken in bf2 mods I don't see this one making it to the mod any time soon... and for what purpose?

Not going to happen. Even if the Devs made it work, it'd end up being very buggy, go through walls, glitch around, lag, and have little practical use.