So did a lot of other people, the 12.7 BR is crowded with Hornets right now. You will likely have a difficult time due to inexperienced teammates and having to face enemies who metagame the sales (avoiding playing 11.7, playing 13.7 instead)
It is a lot yes, especially so if you’re new to air and jump into a jet you’re not necessarily ready for.
This is not the fault of the plane, it’s a matter of technique and game knowledge. Ideally you shouldn’t have jumped straight into a high tier jet from props, but now that you already have I’d recommend you to look up tutorials for how to defeat missiles.
I assume you mean ACM PD. That’s the right mode to use in most situations, in my opinion. The reason you miss is likely due to other factors like multipathing (enemy flying low) and notching (enemy flying perpendicular). Your ideal targets are enemies who fly higher than 60 meters and either fly directly at or away from you.
all im saying is this event is easy mode right now atleast for my italian F-16A ADF/Block 15
Spamraam meta is great at 13.7/13.3 right now
but yeah overall events could use an overhaul and i did somewhat prefer the old thing where you have to get like 6 assists and 5 kills in 1 game and other challenges like that
Erm actually it is a bit over 2 days (48h). And btw the event is quite easy, it just take some time.
PS : don’t hesitate to switch to an other plane if you can play it better
I agree. I think the events take a lot to complete in too short of a timespan.
This will happen when you do not know how to play the Jet. You can reset TWS with a keybind or move it yourself with your mouse.
Do not base bomb in the F/A-18. It is primarily a fighter and is quite slow, it will take you forever this way.
If your crew levels are low and you aren’t using your search/TWS, you will struggle to see the enemy. The F/A-18 is okay in an uptier, lacking IRCCM but some of the best Fox 1 missiles.
Your best bet is playing low ranks or buying the tasks. The system sucks but if you suck aswell, then it mega sucks.
It’s like people forget prop tier exists too. If you have a basic understanding of energy fighting, just go and play any of the meta props like the Yak-3U, Lf MkIX, P51H, etc. You can just get like 1 kill then go for ground targets and you’re golden.
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.
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.
Greek Air force (flying spitfire Lf Mk IX), over 80 minutes of active & constant gameplay getting top of leaderboard fighting Ki-84 that could actually bite back… got 8443 points. Converted, that’s 8443 x 2.3 x 0.9 = 17477.01
Myself, (flying F4U-4) coming in ~top 4 overall, top 3, for 80 minutes of gameplay got 5856. Meaning: 12121.92 after multipliers.
I’d need to do this kind of performance three times (that’s 240 minutes or 4 hours on a weekday). Greek Airforce would need to do it twice - 160 hours, little under hours.
I think optimal way to farm event is probably using F8U-2 in air RB and spamming matches.
This sounds a lot like a player that hasn’t played top tier before and now got thrown into A LOT of new mechanics all at the same time and doesn’t understand them or how to play them.
You’re also forgetting to take into account the multipliers for the tasks. If you’re playing RB and the F/A-18C you’re getting your match score multiplied by 1.4 for playing RB and 1.2 for playing rank 8 so if you get 1000 score in a match then you get 10001.41.2=1680 towards the event task.
I highly recommend watching some guides on youtube on how radars, notching, chaff, etc all work to at least get a basic understanding of how to play at top tier.
Bro… you really need some skill before grinding it… I not talking about gaming skill but calculation skill, I know top tier have the highest rate multiplier but at the same time you are way easier to death without getting anything. What I can tell you is the most effiecient way to grind is rank 5 attacker, especially F-84G. The reason is simple, the catch of the grind is not getting highest point as you can every match but is getting a fixible point in a short match time. That mean you won’t waste tons of time in the rubbish section (take off, flying to the battlefied etc.) so the best choice you got is the attacker, bcos they got airspawn therefore you don’t need to wait those rubbish section.
It’s possible you’re missing some key binds that you need to set up to effectively use your radar like swapping Target in TWS and resetting the gimbal on the radar
It’s not the matter of keybinds. After the premium Hornet their highest rank vehicle is Me 410. They just thrown themselves to high/top tier without any experience and are now suffering for it.
Have fun dying a 100 different ways learning things you skipped over the hard way OP. I guess.
There is that but you could also watch tutorials to help kind of a combination of both issues where gets to the point of OP doesn’t know what they don’t know
