Its a lightshow. It alerts all enemy aircraft in the area that the Scythe is there and easy to pick off because it has the inferior rotary gun.
Bug: http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/...-trading-fire-with-scythes-in-a-reaver.122827 Go thumbs up that post so we can get it fixed. I was hoping it would be fixed in yesterday's patch but apparently not.
Known bug whenever a scythe shoots near or hits the front of your aircraft you will get the black and white splotch screen. And if you are not expecting it be prepared for a painful seizure inducing moment of WTF.
SOE support told me to reseat my GPU like its some kind of nintendo cartridge I just have to blow into. Seriously...
I have confirmation of this bug, it is very annoying. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8838613/Videos/Scythe Rotary OP.mp4 ITP: Me dying