Not an “if”, the deal was penned and all that was left was for the delivery and payment. IIRC a US politician leaked the canadians involvement in the evac of US diplomats to the Iranians which killed the deal.
The RIO being callsign “Patate” made me chuckle
Honestly, when they implemented the USAF/US Navy modern pilot model, they should have made the helmets customizable like userskins.
If it was implemented in the game, Maverick & Goose’s custom pilot helmet speedrun would start on WT.live lmao
Imagine the speedrun for people recreating all the helmets from the Area 88 OVAs and TV series lol
I’m honestly more surprised that we don’t have an F-14 marketplace skin in general specifically from the Top Gun film(s) or even a Jolly Rogers skin at this point after 2 years.
The Buy/Sell orders and GJN prices would and still be off the charts lol.
Ikr. The F-14 is arguably the aircraft that is the most associated with the VF-103 thanks to The Final Countdown and yet the goddamn F-16A got one before the tomcat!
And it’s considered a “historical” skin on top of that. Unbelievable. Are they waiting for the F-14D just to sell it do 1 gazillion GJN ??? I don’t get it.
Im still waiting Su-22 killer camouflage as marketplace or GE camouflage :/
I don’t know if you know this but the GR.7 could have 6 mavs.
Seems Gaijin finally fixed weird bug on TWS mode
Anybody tried it in battle yet? I think we already had a similar fix that didn’t quite work
Tried it extensively. The tws bug is mostly gone. What is also gone is my ability to get kills with the phoenixes. I swear that they make changes that are not on the patch notes. Maybe not to the missile specificaly but changes nonetheless… I went from getting plenty of kills to getting maybe one or two per game (with the phoenixes alone) if I am lucky. I launch with the same parameters as I have for the past months. Using the same tactic and all that. I’m going to take another break again and fly the f14 after a few patches again.
About the TWS bug, I flew a fair bit and it seems to be gone, but there is now a different bug in its place (possibly an issue that was aleays there, but we didn’t see it because of the TWS switching targets)
It doesn’t really happen much with western radars, as they refresh faily quickly, mostly happens to soviet ones. The issue: often times the target(s) tracks on your TWS screen will not get updated (slowly fading away and keeping the old heading), even though the target is clearly still above the notch speed and in the scan zone.
I think this is because the target deviates from the initial position/velocity too much and the radar does not recognize it as the same target (for some reason it still does not appear as a new one)
Reminder that though there are ways to optimize your use of the AIM-54, they are still OBJECTIVELY awful missiles in-game, and players can and will adapt EVENTUALLY, even if they might themselves not realize they’re doing it.
The AIM-54 has been, since its addition to the game, a skill check missile. It punishes players that are inattentive, dont know how and/or dont care to learn how to evade the missiles properly, but against a player that has enough mental capacity to do something as simple as “missile streak + coming towards me = missile coming towards me?” or the more advanced “enemy team has F-14 + enemy team in that direction + AIM-54 approximate range and ideal launch conditions are X = defend now, missile likely incoming” and subsequently defending, the missile is basically a big joke. Until gaijin decides to fix the AIM-54C, it will always suffer high highs and low lows, and even beyond that point, the 54C will likely still be easy enough to defeat for good players, the skill floor will just be raised. The EVENTUAL F-14D with its APG-71 will also raise the skill floor some more, finally giving the aircraft a GREAT radar to guide the missiles to pitbull, and if the 54C’s are fixed by then, they will be genuinly scary missiles if they get within range to go pitbull.
No question on that. Ive been watching replays to see what is going on and it just seems that the missiles fail to track targets that done maneuver much. What is even more weird is that the missiles seem to track great when players are actually trying to evade… It makes absolutely no sense.
You might remember the screenshot I posted some time ago… That was from a normal game doing what you and another bro suggested… And it was like that until recently… :(
I feel like the C will never come close to what we would like it to be. They would have done it by now and as you saw, they are actively tweaking the “modern” active radar missiles but they leave the phoenix and any older missile really, untouched…
P.S. “R27ER still the best missile in the game… B A L A N C E”
omg Iranian F-14A is coming!
then iriaf su-35 in usa tt
It’s so Joever, ARB in this BR range will never recover
Looks like newbies are back in top tier boys!
Can’t wait to see they gets wiped by my and squadmates AIM-54C tbh.
I might have to capitalise on this revelation and begin sealclubbing at 13.0, never thought I would say that
Wonder if it will come with the proper Phoenix fixes