Just trying to stock grind F14. Well, I cant, I have literally zero ways of playing against top tier jets.
Thats why F14 isnt at top tier right? Yeah that doesnt mean anything when 98% of your games are full uptiers and you dont even have stock chaff. Is it really that hard for gaijin to see that this is pure shit? Why are new planes playable only few months after release? When F16 was introduced, it was amazing, when F14 was introduced it was amazing. When Mig 29 was introduced it was amazing. And now? Stock grinding these planes is a fucking nightmare.
Duration of the battles? fucking joke. When you try to be cautios and dont fly into furballs, you get rewarded with zero kills, zero points game most of the time, especially with plane that is full BR lower than your current battle.
Literally every single player can see how bad top tier air is, except you.
F-14 isn’t top tier for starters; it’s not a dog-fighter.
Learn to notch missiles if you in an up-tier, either that or multi path.
If you want longer battles; play sim EC.
(Almost) Everything in the game is good when playing at its BR, but not in uptiers.
Be aware, react fast, and preflare in uptiers to throw off IRCCM users.
That aside, the F-14 is still competitive at 12.7, and just busted in downtiers.
They don’t care, they try to frustrate players into spending money to unlock missiles to be competitive, another easy solution would be to limit the br spread to +.3/ -.3 but they insist on “decompression” that does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING besides fix only the first BR to not get decompressed, every other br stays the same and it moves (for example) if 8.7 used to have a 90% chance of top br and they decompressed 9.3 up it will now make 9.0 have that 90% chance and 8.7 will be back to getting uptiered most the time.
I dont try to dogfight with the F14. I play it like every single person. I launch my stock 2 phoenixes, I usually miss both of them, because players at top tier arent stupid enough to get killed by the Phoenix. My only 3 kills with this missile was in downtiers. ( in first 2 battles btw, since then, absolutely zero kills with that.)
I know how to notch and I think im quite succesful with that most of the time. Of course with amazing 30 flares and 30 chaff you can evade 1 or 2 missiles max. The only thing this plane does good is slinging Phoenixes. You are strong in downtiers which just dont happen most of the time, and in uptiers, the plane is completely worthless unless you get lucky with Phoenix kills.
And yeah F14 is definiteyl competitive at 12.7, too bad you dont play this BR with the plane, you play top tier constantly
yeah the decompression needs to be made all the way not only decompress one rank once in year and a half.