Heat seeking missiles should be able to lock on to ground flares, that way we can call in cool airstrikes and such.

If youre playing with friends the flare can be useful to designate enemy armor for jets. I find it hard to spot ground vehicles from afar in an attack jet so this would be a big help I guess.

The Colonel 100 can kill people with flares...

The flare is clearly superior because of tactics and shit.

you also use flares to call airstrikes and evac mostly with friends

The Flares would be amazing if there were more proper "night time" maps where it's actually dark out and you can't see more than a few meters in front of you. Would love to see Incindiary and Flashbangs buffed as well, they're far too weak as LC pointed out. I think anyone caught in within 7~10m of an FB should be blind and deaf for 5 seconds - any less than that and there's no point, and any more and it starts to become OP as if you nail a group of people you'll likely have enough time to gun them all down before it wears off. I think the intention of the incendiary is area-denial, which would be great on maps like operation locker or if you're defending something like an M-COM from being armed, but it *needs* to do a lot more damage and should definitely kill anyone stupid enough to remain standing in it...

I like the ending ;) And now we know the flare isn't just a tool meant to give your position away.

Time to go spam Smokes...xD

5:01 We get it, you vape

great job

DICE needs to make flares show up on radar for teammates, so commanders can see designated areas and so squad leaders can mark objectives more clearly.

I think there should be an emp grenade or something similar for destroying equipment more effectively. I know some might call it ripping off cod or some bs but really, sometimes you even see claymores or other equipment and it's just a huge hassle trying to safely remove/destroy them.

RGOs and V40s are probably the best nades in this game. Still, I find times when the flashbangs and incendiaries help, and of course the M67 still kicks ass. But dat hand flare tho

Whoa... LevelCap, can you try to get a footage of flare and smoke working at the same time on one spot?

I love the incendiary grenade, it blocks the enemy's line of sight and on maps like Locker and Metro 2014 it's amazing

Weren't the flashbangs given a longer effect though, I was playing this morning and got flashbanged, couldn't see shit for like ten seconds.

I love LvlCap. He's helped me learn so much about BF ever since I first joined the BF community in March. All I've been doing is preparing to get BF4 for Christmas

There are uses for flares outside of marking areas, targets or messing with night vision and infrared scopes. A small " trick " is to use them on dark areas to light up the rooms in order for making the corner campers really easy to see if they are hiding in the dark corners. Correctly placed, they can even blind them from their enemies by a small bit and make using red dot sight and alike scopes hard to aim with due to the similar red light all over the screen. For example, in Zavod 211 rush mode. There is a B bomb inside the bunker in the first place, generally it is a really dark place and camping enemies can sometimes prove a difficult thing to detect in there. No problem, throw in a flare and you are good to go. Especially useful as a defender since attackers tend to set up a camp in there.

I'm going to use the flares, period. Because of tacticz and shit!

By the way, those hand flares are really bright in a dark room, so they are very useful to find enemies hiding in the shadows if you don't have a Night Vision sight.

I lov the incendiary grenade, it is very useful for crowd control. Throw one down in a hallway to stop the enemy from running through, giving you time to revive and heal your teammates, reload, or whatever. It's more of a tactical grenade than a lethal one.

oh man just more to look forward to in BF4, i think my fav will be the flares actually. As a pilot first in this game the flare will be my best friend because nothing will mark a target better than flares when i need a better visual on a CAS run than spotting alone, and when i use the transport chopper to actually "transport" forces to and from the front lines flares will get my attention more than shooting in the air so i see tracers. I cant wait!

Having flares in game is such a good idea, not only does it blind NVG etc. but it opens up a whole lot of new tactical ways to play with your mates. Awesome!

Nice transition there with the smoke at the end

thankfully they buffed the flashbang, really useful on those choke points. I was able to get 6 kills on carrier Assult while defending because I popped a flash around a corner

Can you throw flares out of a chopper to break the lock on from aa missiles?

I'm glad the smokes are so great, I really hoped the flashes would be better though

Definitely the kind of videos I like to see LC do, very informative and give you all the details. I will just add some tables or something in the video, just showing the damage and the range of each grenade, something like that.

RGO FTW! finally a nade that explodes fast and on impact i love it

Flares are also good to show you where possible threats are if you are communicating with your squad

I've used the V40's & RGO's almost exclusively, but after watching this I can't wait to get into an Operation Locker match so I can run support class & smoke grenades with my INRV-equipped SG335... Good tip man, thanks...

Why did you tell the trolls about the unlimited smoke levelcap? WHY!

Hey LvL. Just an idea for you. Would be cool if you did a top plays series. Let your subscribers submit their videos to you. Top 5 trolls, top 5 plays, top 5 sniper shots/SRAW shots etc. I can imagine it being very popular. Everyone would like to see their video on your channel haha it would be awesome! 

Incendiary grenades are pretty good at clearing out tight hallways with a cluster of enemies since they will likely all bail with that thing going off. It also doesn't harm you or your allies so it kind of is a useful smoke grenade that causes damage. That is how I've used them.

UP IN THE SKY, ITS A BIRD, ITS A PLANE, NO ITS HANDFLAREINGTON

we need darker maps so people have a reason to use these scopes. maybe add an option to change the map setting to night time. I think this would be awesome having battles at night and not like tehran highway dark I mean way darker.

I've gotten killed by a flash bang in BF4 before....

i like to believe that the flares were put in with party chat and skype in mind, if people really play together these things can come in handy, *ground player*: hey dude, i need a airstrike on the marked position, going to throw a flare! *chopper player*: i hear ya, over at bravo right? *ground player*: yeah, be quick.

Incendiary grenades are great for close quarter fights. The best example being conquest on Operation Metro 2014. Great for flushing people out.

When he was talking about igniting the ground, I noticed this works on Lancang Dam, too. I had my mortar firing on some enemies in front of me, in the grassy area, when suddenly the grass was on fire. It doesn't happen often, as I shot 3-4 rounds and only one ignited it, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

If you got a team that will listen to you, the flares can be used as : (1) too hostile zone, (2) Drop infrantry zone, (3) Air support.

I like all the different grenades... except the mini and impact... I'm not sure why we need to have a load of "uncounterable" 'splosives. I'm also wondering how long any audio effects of the flashbang actually last. Additionally it would have been interesting to have the flares or flashbangs give 'spotting' gadgets a false positive on the minimap. Cause of tactics'n'shit.

Just unlocked the incendiary grenades and love them. I usually play rush so they are perfect to throw on the mcom when someone is planting or after you plant the mcom, I found that this is the most effective way to use it.

M67 all the way, they kill in one and you can bounce them around corners.

i was really really looking forward to the incendiary grenade when i heard they would be included in BF4. i always wanted something like that in any shooter game. but the incendiary gren is a bit disappointing. it should rather be like a molotov cocktail where it burns far longer and denies an area. hopefully dice gonna buff it a bit

Nice ending transition levelcap :D

I use the flares often to light up dark rooms and to blind people (not just people with flir). I find it really helpful in dark rooms and when you throw them at doors. When you place them at a door in a room and camp in the room, enemies who run inside get blinded by the flare for moments and won't see you, so you have an advantage over them

The Incendiary is great on rush. Once you arm the M-COM just chuck one of those babies on it. If you have a ammo pack through two. No one is disarming that while its engulfed in a ball of flame.

Flares FTW best grenade no doubt

You can use flares in hardcore Conquest where you can't spot tanks for your Jets. I dont know how far you can see them but it could be really.

I think dice could easily improve the flares by allowing any form of rocket to lock on to it. It would be a really cool effect to see a friendly jet fly over a flare that has multiple enemies near it, have the jet fire it's laser guided missile at the flare, and watch the enemies get blown to smithereens.

I use flares to obscure the enemy's "Dorito Vision". The color of the flares is identical to red dot, so it makes it very easy to obscure their spotting. Very helpful on Operation Locker, for crossing those impossible corridors.

Throw down infinite smoke grenades? I guess it's increasing the... *Sunglasses* Fog of war

I use flares on conquest when playing with a friend that's an ace with jets. (Console) I throw that thing down and he blasts that whole area into next week.

I love the smoke utility of support class. Smoke grenade regen is nuts. Some great builds and you have gadgets (including smoke) with built in IRNV. I especially love smoke for Rush but also CQ and DOM.

Thanks level for uploading even over the holidays... it shows true dedication and i respect that

Hey levelcap i have a good use for flares. First i like to to do strafe runs with helicopters and my friend would tell me where to to one but with flares my friend throws one down at a location and i get multi kills from my strafe runs

Incendiary grenades are the best. If people are camping in a room, you toss one in, they run out while taking damage, and you can kill them much faster. I always run with these ones.

Multiple flares can also be used to obscurer vision. the brightness makes it hard to see past them. But since you can only put down one you need team/squadmates to help.

2:42 --> FIRST of all you can only throw it 32 meter... 2:47 --> THIRD, if you throw it directly on to somebody... Where is 2??? :D Great video tho LevelCap!

They need to make the Smoke grenade more "instant effect" or thicker. :c

hi level cap you might already be doing this but you should make guides for all the gadgets in the game, like ethier a long video with all of them or 4 short videos for each class that would be awesome

i got flares first day of bf4 because i really wanted the flare and ever since ive been flaring my way through the battlefield they are amazing love it for marking dz and lz's

Awesome guide as usual. One point I would add about flares is they create decent visual obstruction, especially in rooms and corridors and most especially with ab obstacle. For example, put the flare on or in front of a table or counter or box, stand somewhere behind the object and it's decent added cover.

He looks so damn cute when his throwing things around in the start of the video!!!!

Why didn't he point out that flashbangs will set off claymores?

One use that I have used the flares for is in Hainan resort where you put the flare infront of the couch in front of the stairs and then sit behing the sofa. This then causes ur opponent to be blinded but ur sight is perfectly fine. Give it a try if u havent already!

RGO impact is my go to grenade. Despite the lesser damage, there really is no overstating how crucial it is to not give your opponent time to escape the blast. Also it does not explode on impact, it explodes very shortly after impact (less than a second after impact). This is significant because it still allows you to ricochet the grenade off of walls if you need to. As for the incendiary grenades I hardly ever use them but they are very effective in rush. Throw them at the objectives to delay arming or disarming the bomb. Also deadly against players who camp in tight spaces with limited exits.

God, I miss BF2: Modern Combat, used to get to the enemy spawn base, camp on the ammo crate and just endlessly chuck flash bangs.

me and my squad have been using flares to designate enemy vehicles for our jet and heli pilots by running up to tanks etc and throwing one on there, as long as it isnt right at the edge it stays on.

Should have prolly mentioned that Incendiary Grenades do damage through walls/floors. So throwing them into the corridor on Operation Locker for example also does damage to people passing them in the tunnel below. And that Flash bangs do 5 damage if you manage to hit the guy :)

This is completely different now, not sure about the explosive ones but the duration of flashbang and incendiary are definitely higher and smoke effects flir and irnv

i use smoke for all my loadouts.. i find it the most usefull

if you're in a helicopter and there's a lock on it can you throw a flare and have the missile follow it instead?

You were mostly right about this guide. A few of the things you were wrong about we're that the incendiary grenades do not one shot people that is not there job, you did not see their true purpose which is to cut of points of the map for a few seconds. No one will want to run through them if there are guys watching the incendiary grenade because they know if they do they will have low health making it super easy for the guys watching it to kill them. Secondly, flares are very useful. Me and my buddies like to play milsim games online sometimes flares are extremely good for marking enemy armor, highlighting JDAM strikes, and requesting supply drops.

the incendiaries are excellent for buying time to reload levelcap, one of my favorite grenades for rush, whenever im holding an mcom i use them as a last resort to throw it on the mcom to buy some time, or use them to slow down people in operation locker

2 guys "securing a choke point"(camping) 1 with LMG and Flash Hider/supressor + bipod and infrared/nightvision sight other is spamming smoke grenades FLAME INCOMMING

TEAM IMPACT FTW

I seen your channel on battlefield friends, and subscribed to you just now. I've just started watching your videos and I think you are really good at helping people play this game. Keep it up :D

just unlocked the flare this morning :D feeling pretty happy with all grenades unlocked

It appears that the incendiary creates a temporary zone of denial for the enemy both seeing and passing through an area

Rgo is not cheap as alot of people think, its not OP, its really good for cqc and its my fav :D

v40 is my choice as well. the fact you get 3 grenades, plus farthest throwing distance is awesome. even if it's not a one hit kill, a lot of the times they are hurt or someone (or I) have shot them a few times already

You know what's going to be a crazy combo and something you and Matimio should do for squad up; the Flare + Smoke Grenade combo. One person has Flares and the other has Smoke and wherever you guys go just chuck one of each down on the same spot. It will totally fuck up the other team, especially in corridors like in Operation Locker.

Mini got 80 dmg.. Everytime i throw a mini somewhere someone dies.. Everytime i get a mini on me i die. How can it only have 80 dmg O.o

incendiary looks cool but its so useless :| it needs to stay longer so you can block off paths

RGO Impact is my favorite, I have it for each class. My second favorite is the M67 grenade, It's pretty good for bouncing around corners!

I still don't get why great videos with no downsides get dislikes. I guess there will always be "those" types of people. As always, another very informative video! Although I have only rented BF4 to beat the campaign and mess around on MP a little bit, I still enjoy your BF4 videos so keep up the good work!

One thing you might want to test out is if it is possible to kill someone with a flashbang. It happened to me one game and the victim was astounded by it as was I. But upon reviewing my BF4 stats it has no kills listed for it. Though I could have sworn the message popped up that M84 Flashbang was the weapon that did the kill. It might only do 1 damage after all. But any damage is still capable of killing you I guess.

Can the flares block a lock? :3

I like the flash bangs the effect may not last long but that is all the time you really need when clearing out a room with a squad maybe defending the m-com or somthing.

I use the flashbangs in carrier assault when we are fighting in the carriers. Chuck one or two flashbangs into the engine room, rush in, and shoot them all. Always works.

couldn´t you use the smokes in combination with the flares to completely obstruct the view of everything ?

jeez i got flared once and my eyes are in pain even thought its a video game :(

Dat ending was sick

I use the smokes for the IR scopes on my DMR's, it works really well most of the time.

In hardcore every grenade is a massive destruction weapon

Can you see a flashlight or tactical light through smoke?

I have to say I am a fan of the Incendiary's. Issue is most people use them incorrectly. Use them defensively or passive-aggressive. Use it to cover a reload, prevent someone from camping a corner, or block a corridor for a few moments till you or your teammates can regroup and get a better position or, again, reload. Most people wont run through the fire so it is effective when its used right. Also, though the flares are generally useless, I have found them to be very useful in large conquest maps with attack jets/helo's (esp. in Hardcore) to mark areas to strafe and suppress.

Incendiary grenades make great "access denial" devices especially on Operation Locker. Setting them off near the chokepoints makes it difficult for enemies to strafe in and out of corners unless they're further back. If they do then they take 60pts of damage and become vulnerable to grenades reaching past the 5m point. Flare can be really really distracting at chokepoints if you're firing from further back. It makes noticing people crawling or kneeling much more difficult especially if there are several on your side.