Okay, so I have done 609 sorties in my Block 50 (I have a personal childhood fondness of this aircraft, so its my all time favorite only topped by the infamous F-22) and there’s only one problem, its Fox 3 loadout. The Sidewinders are great, but AiM-120A’s are straight garbage, they kill more blue then red, (that’s from other pilots, I don’t think I’ve had any TK’s because of a mistrack, and I’ve been Tk’ed by a couple 120A’s), The problem is that the Block 50 is more than capable of carrying the AiM120-C-5, and firing them, I do understand the balancing, I’m not saying give it the 120-C-5, I’m just saying give the aircraft missiles that it would’ve carried and fired during the majority of its time in service, or take it to 14.0 and give it the 120-C-5. I’m almost certain I have been killed by more MICA’s and AiM120-C-5’s then any other Active Radar Homing missile in the 609 sorties that I’ve done. So Gaijin, please give us F-16 Block 50 pilots and better life that’s not spent at the bottom of the leaderboard because you only carry up to 6 ARH missiles and the missiles you carry don’t hit shit half the time. I think the most kills I’ve gotten is 3 with the AMRAAM’s, and a sidewinder kill before the sortie was finished. I understand that’s 3/4 on AMRAAM’s but that doesn’t account for the 400+ sorties where I have shot all 4 AMRAAM’s and not a single one hit.
the AIM-120C-5 is a downgrade over the AIM-120A ingame lol
Actually all the aim120 need buff
Do you mean the F-16 should use a worse missile? (C-5 is worse than A/B)
Unless you use an F-15 or Typhoon, that can fire high and fast. You are better off with A/B AMRAAMs at the moment.
But it sounds more like user error if you keep on killing teammates with them.
Stop firing missiles towards teammates
I don’t own F-15s or Typhoons. But most of the missiles that both of those aircraft carried when I engaged them were AIM-120A/B missiles.
Yeah, because even in their hands. C5s are at best a side-grade.
I personally run C5s because my playstyle suites them quite well. More defensive, where I can reliably fire from 25k ft at Mach 1.5+, But for most, A/B are at worst, equal, if not better.
The meta thing to do would be to run a small number of C5s early game and then use A/Bs the bulk of the match, but im too lazy for that