Flash smoke is garbage and needs a buff. Should be at least as good as the smoke grenade or better as the smoke grenade fills up and stays like that for a while. All vehicles should be eq. to this level of smoke. I think the Flash smoke was to throw off lock but then you might as well use Wrath cloaking as it's Far superior. Also when you get off driver seat the smoke immediately stops which sucks. : ( The purpose is to fill up an area with smoke so IR can be effective as they cannot see you but you can see them. https://gfycat.com/frighteninglightheartedbuckeyebutterfly
Well if something does not perform the supposed design goal then it can be considered a bug. Especially the fact that some graphic options for all practical purposes make smoke a useless tool (as seen in the video). Smoke in general (not just vehicles) needs a buff to make it more worthwhile. For example removing all spots from people who move through smoke, blocking spots through smoke and highlighting enemies moving through smoke. You might argue that IR would be much less useful if smoke already highlights enemies, but smoke can already be almost turned off and IR has barely any use anyway. Better to change IR scopes, for example allowing IR scopes to see the heat signatures of all allies and spotted enemies through walls, that would give it a very useful capability that isnt as niche as using it on smoke. Also there shouldnt be graphic options that can almost eliminate an entire game mechanic. The graphic settings where smoke is almost meaningless should have changes to smoke, like using a layered sphere with each layer reducing visibility as long as the smoke is active.
The regular throwable smoke grenade as of this morning works great. Everything else should be like that or better but indeed it can be spammed in groups.. but the other abilities outweigh the vehicle smoke option 10000x.
It works as intended, so its not a bug. It just needs a buff. Esepcially the Flash grenade. Bro, it takes forever and doesn't carry a wide enough explosion radius, so you use it for entry just for it to go off and you get murdered. Grenades need to be made to be thrown more accurately and cooked. Im gonna suggest that rn.
Smoke grenades on vehicles should perform like the hand thrown smoke grenades or better. Right now they don't really do anything other than disable missile lock. The purpose of a smoke grenade is to increase concealment and the current vehicle smokes do a poor job with that. It used to be good but then they changed it. Using vehicle smoke + thermals was amazing but not OP.
