Flare grenade

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A flare grenade is a type of grenade thrown by the player. Instead of dealing damage, the flare grenade's main purpose is to act as a device to divert missiles that are locked onto something, and have them hit the flare instead. Once a missile hits a flare grenade, it expires. Flares expire on their own a few seconds after being thrown.

A flare grenade does not have to be closer to the missile than the initial heat source that the missile is locked onto for it to divert it. Instead, a missile will always go to a flare first if it is close enough to the lengthy radius of effect of the flare.

Flare grenades only stop a single missile. If any missile locks onto a flare, no other missile will attempt to lock onto it.