Events are generally very frustrating to play as everyone gets far more… lets say competitive, as they try to grind them out.
There is also a sale on and a lot of players like to take advantage of a lot of less experienced players in premiums (and with low crew skills) to farm easy kills.
But a few pointers that hopefully will be useful to you:
Radar missiles you want to turn as close to 90deg to them as you can manage (notching) and drop a bunch of chaff and change your altitude or get down low under 60m (multi-pathing) as it will interfere with the missiles (preferably both notch, chaff and dive for the deck).
For IR missiles, make sure you turn your afterburner off when you flare, I see lots of people spamming flares while at full afterburner
AIM-7s need a bit of distance to get speed and become maneuverable, if you fire them from too close they wont be able to track (I like to use them between 10 to 20km in a head on), they also wont track players under 60m or flying at 90 degrees to you as mentioned earlier, so try to avoid shooting at them, or use the AIM-9L IR missiles as they wont get effected by notching or multi-pathing and need far less time to start tracking properly (I find 800m to 2km is a good range area to fire them for them, but that depends on what the other guy is doing, you will pick that up with experience)
TWS is more for Active radar missiles, but it dose have the advantage of showing the direction that everybody is flying in, if you want to BVR between 16 to 20km, you can use it to pick the best targets for your sparrows, pick someone that’s flying straight at you, lock him and watch what he dose, if he dives low or turns to the side he knows what he is doing and will likely dodge the missile, but if he just keeps flying straight he likely either not paying attention or doesn’t really know what he is doing and may be an easy kill.
Once you are close you are better off using ACM as you are. If you are not trying to BVR, its a good idea to turn your radar off so you don’t ping enemies RWRs and give your position away.
You mean like this?:
Spoiler
you need to bind this key:
that will re-center you radar search area
or if you are using the new radar buttons radar click this one:
base bombing right at the start at these BRs isn’t very reliable, if you want to survive you will need to fly out to the side to avoid being hit, but there are usually enough base rushers that some will survive to destroy the bases forcing you to loiter until they respawn, which often doesn’t happen due to how fast matches end.
Well… that ended you being far longer then I intended… Hopefully at least some of it is useful to you.
