Finally… Enemy and teammates flare detector 9000…
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“Missile, 2 o’clock, low” and it’s a flare 90km away dropped by a teammate in a dogfight
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This point is funny by the way, because you instantly get an “overspeed” warning the moment you spawn in the F/A-18C ^^
Having a great time with this radar setup, while also being the German cursed one.
Missile is still bad but the datalinking with the Captor E is like night and day compared to the Microwave-M.
Solid 8/10 jet imo.
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I’ve been playing with this in mind, but it seems there’s still an issue where the data link is lost even when enemies are displayed on the radar scope. Wouldn’t this malfunction be quite significant for an AMRAAM carrier? It’s disheartening that minor bugs still remain even though AESA has been implemented in this game for over a year.
AWAC mode is awesome fun too for finding the last bugger hiding
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Yeah, especially when you don’t have RWR pings, therefore no general indication of the enemy position.
My fav scan mode:
narrow enough to have a good update rate, and tall enough to have every high/mid/low flying target displayed, works wonders for situational awareness.
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Yeah, I usually use 90x30 for the bulk of the match. They just need to improve target selection somehow, definetly need to improve the mouse target a bit, but also have cyclic selection prioritise aircraft over weapons and also an option to toggle TWS auto-fixating. Because sometimes I want to point my radar into a specific bit of airspace, but it keeps snapping back to something else. So If it only fixated on something when I told it too, it owuld be awesome
This is actually so true, I even keybinded the new IFF mode for the radar, sometimes the clutter of allies, missiles from both enemies and allies, chaff etc. is just unbearable; You struggle to tell things apart from one another.
I always use manual target cycling, and I just can’t target what I want in some situations…
In one update they ruined all small HE missiles.
Hellfires, Brimstonses, JAGM are all very unreliable
Probably throw SPIKE and Akeron in that discussion
I have teammates off at all times at the moment, but yeah, I was trying like hell to get it to lock onto something directly infront of me, but it was obsessed with something off to my right. its really annoying… Actually, thats another option for the cyclic target selection. Have a keybind that will target whatever is closest to your nose.
That might be a suggestion worthy idea…
I do in ASB with HOTAS, but ive yet to figure out a good way to do it in ARB with M&K
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Ive created this suggestion, if it gets approved, I’ll link it here. Hopefully it does
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After spading the Su-30SM2, altrough not quite as good as the rafale IMHO, is still a very potent 14.3 jet.
Then I focused on finishing the british typhoon grind, I tried a few matches with the first typhoon but the radar is just too unnefective to deal with 14.3 matchmaker so I switched to the gripen instead.
The gripen at 13.7 it isn’t the best but it doesn’t get many full uptiers, and it’s much more effective at 13.7 than the first typhoon in 14.3.
After unlocking the aesa typhoon I was suprised at how good this jet was, I was expecting to be a little less effective than the SM2, but it’s crazy good. I’m halfway through the stock grind and I got amazing results with it, most of it with just 2xaim-120s.
The SU-30SM2 has a very potent loadout, but the eurofighter can be higher, faster, and turn much faster to notch at altitude. Its a much harder target to hit by comparison, even notching seems to be much easier to do with the Eurofighter despite the annoying RWR long “scope/range” (although the MAWS helps somewhat to know when a missile is really close to you)
From 13 matches, I only died to the enemy 4 times, 1 time my PC crashed and another I got TK’d in the end of the match. Got around 33-34 kills till now (a few AI kills in the 38 count).
The experience I got with the aesa radar, in contrast with the experience I got with the earlier one, and also when fighting AESA jets with 13.7 jets, its completelly unbalanced.
From 12.7 and up, balance is nonexistent, and we are desperately in need of some more BRs for a long time. These new jets made everything even worse.
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1km rear aspect launch…how does this make sense.
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Magics 2 would never
9Ms are totally broken, if you’ve got the replay file/link and/or gamelog. might be worth hanging onto it for a report. I might work on one at some point, if no one else beats me to it
Ok
Another Aim-9Miss off too wonderland
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Its really hard to enjoy this aircraft when your SRAAMs dont even work
Just play a Su and enjoy life why play with stinky 9M’s?