Oh don’t worry, against sky sabre/SAMPT you can just fly vaguely low and get away with it.
IRIS-T will mess you up though.
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Asked Gszabi about the possibility of multi-mode seekers but no luck
For mode 2 to work as you’re asking we’d need seeker functionality that just doesn’t exist in the game right now, and the “SAL designates target for lock” would then also apply to things like JAGM.
and if you’re forced to defend before finding the target you want to lase with Brimstone it’ll miss too.
the silver lining of the Brimstone’s travel time is that you can reposition while the missile is in the air, gaining some distance before re-committing for the lase
You’ll have to do the same thing with a lase-to-lock Brimstone, and SAM players don’t need to see you for long to click on you in the radar screen and fire a missile
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Here’s the thing - someone who is already alert will respond faster than someone who is not. If a brimstone goes up for 30 seconds and then you pop up, they’re gonna know that brimstone came from something. On the other hand, if a jet comes up and launches a brimstone that’s going from ~30s to like… sub-5s of alerted time, even if your airframe is exposed for the same period of time.
Responding to a threat when there were none before is harder/slower than responding to a second threat.
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I’d imagine that any SAM player would be keeping a close eye on the target list regardless of whether they see a missile though? And when the counterplay is left-click then right-click a slight delay in reaction speed won’t matter much, it’s not like top SAMs need to lock targets through the sight now.
Personal experience says there’s a point where staring at the radar screen for 20min straight in a match where they probably won’t even spawn air gets quite boring and that response time gets cut down.
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Target shows on TWS
Press lock
Target dissapears
Maybe the very basics/ core of game should be fixed before we get names on radar😐
‘What Air Defence Doing?’
‘He’s AFK watching youtube videos/reading a book/playing another game on another screen/ endless possibilities.’
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All complaints aside this HMD is hot
Kinda wish I could see a bit more out of it during the day. Shouldn’t the visor have a tint on it?
Also still got the issue where the MAW will just entirely fail to detect missiles sometimes…
Also also, they broke the letters?
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First we should get the hud tint
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Ah yes clearly marked targets, you have B, F, lowercase q, and mystery blob. Bet the 5th target would be a Chinese or Islamic letter.
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In the Y menu there is a HMD brightness option
Doesn’t quite cut it. The green blends far too well into the sky during the day I find.
Now we just need a setting to toggle only the third person radar overlay in ARB and the ability to display the HMD and HMD symbology in third person view
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Its too bad the bandit names arent overlayed on the HMD for the NCTR, but its a very significant improvement for sim players nonetheless!
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Yeah, that would be glorious.
and yeah, might finally dust off the Typhoon in ASB after months of not playing it at all.
If they ever add it, you’d have the RWR return overlayed on it which would be just as good.
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Itd be better actually, since you would be able to have NCTR + TDL levels of situational awareness with your radar turned off, depriving others of passive means of locating you, and would have target reference points to point your radar at, which would mitigate the issue of the poor search volume and scan speed of the CAPTOR-M.
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Yes…
We need our sensor fusion dominance to be absolute
Sensor fusion is something that should come to everyone that has it. The handholding idiocy that was the last 9 months of the Rafale being the only fighter with a TDL in sim should never be repeated.
This is a positive step for the EFTs and general game balance in sim (due to the fact the EFT’s are played by both sides simultaneously, unlike gaijins favourite child), but other fighters missing sensor fusion and TDL’s remains an issue.
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