flare suggestions

[next wind]

first change flares to magnesium.
Have you ever looked at the sun for a few secounds and then looked away and tried to focus on an object? Its pretty hard to do. My suggestion is that flares change animations so that you light them in your hand and then throw them. What these would do would produce a much more blinding light than they do currently.
The purpose of this is that when an enemy looks at a flare that is somewhat close to them then trys to ads, there is a half second or so where your eyes need to adjust and focus due to your pupils being blinded by the light.

this effect wold be much more subtle than a flash bang as to not undervaule it

im sorry for bad english

main point of this is to force enemy's to push forward in front of the flare to avoid the penalty much like a grenade would

[slender cargo]

Adding a use to flares outside of night would be great and I think this would be an appropriate way to implement this.