As much as I hate the IRAF, it can only go to 13.3 if many other 13.0s go up too. I’d rather they change the seeker so it doesn’t ping your RWR only at sub 15km, because it gives you zero time to evade it. Change that, and the missiles would lose a lot of their potency.
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Zero chance the fakour connects if the mirage pilot is awake and knows how to notch
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and also invalidate the playstyle of the plane and thus de-legitimize its BR placement
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Lmao. The plane is 13.0 purely because it’s surrounded by premium players who have no idea what they’re doing. It would easily be a 12.7 without them.
They’re just fast and you don’t have your RWR sensitivity at 100%. That’s always the problem, not the missile.
Also, even with 16km warning you’re still not getting into a notch fast enough if you’re that unaware and flying at it. Like any missile in the game instead of flying directly at it you should turn away preemptively if you don’t like staring at the hanger. It’s really not complicated stuff dude.
Bonus: Ever since the update the Iranian flag literally pops up whenever one is in the lobby. There is zero reason to be caught off guard. It’s all skill issue.
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10km?
It’s not even usable within 10km dude… How out of touch can you be.
You’ve never even touched an F-14.
Having missiles that give you 12 seconds to react rather than 10 would nerf it without making it go down.
No, its because fakours aren’t garbage. They are incredibly fast and give you very little time to properly dodge them if you don’t visually spot them first.
With the RWR sensitivity up, I still see them ping my RWR later than every single other ARH missile.
It gives you 10-12 seconds to properly dodge, which can be a lot if you are moving at high speed towards it.
then explain how can i get killed by a Fakour-90 at like 15km or less without even noticing the F-14A IRIAF rushing to me in a head-on, and how can i get into a notch that quickly while a Fox-3 with a lot of fuel is going for me? im currently playing the Mirage F1CT, i bet u can get into a notch that fast and dodge a Fox-3 at the distance the missile will be when u finally are 90º perpendicular to the missile/radar.
Complaining about F-14s in 2026? Come on… You are either insisting on flying high where you get shot out of the sky from 20km or simply don’t know how to notch FOX-3s
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if u aren’t going to agree or give an actually real opinion, u should leave.
And for the record, I would gladly support all F-14s getting upgraded IR missiles rather than moving their BRs down.
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I’ve never had an issue dodging Fakours. Iranian F-14s almost always just climb straight up to contrail height and salvo off all their missiles. Meaning anyone who’s awake can just pull into a notch or go cold once they see 1 contrail split into 5, causing the F-14’s non all aspect RADAR to drop the lock. I have never seen an F-14 hold a Fakour until they’ve caught someone in the NEZ.
Unfortunately, a sizable proportion of top tier teams seem to be made up of people who aren’t awake, meaning the Fakours still manage on average 2-3 kills a game. This just compounds the current snowball meta even harder.
In an ideal world, players would be skilled enough to render the long range Fakour spam worthless, meaning the F-14 could be balanced around it’s abilities in more conventional gameplay. In a slightly less ideal world, it would be moved up to 13.3, along with most other Fox 3 carriers so that the last generation Fox 1/2 only planes have a bit more room to breathe.
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I exclusively play 12-13.0 and I really can’t seem to understand why you’re finding it hard to dodge the Fakour? Yes it’s a long range, high pulling missile but all you have to do is dive down to deck, pop some chaff and go 90 degree perpendicular to the RWR ping. After it runs out of energy, you can engage.
F14s were menacing when they first came out but there is honestly bigger fish to fry at the moment, I hate playing against SU-33s or the newer premium hornets. F14s have kinda been left behind now
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that was in 2022 when AIM-54 was an actually deadly missile. a smart F-14 player won’t drop all of it’s long-range missiles against anything cuz they’re ez asf to notch at huge distances (u can even just notch and not drop chaff, the missile will lose the track by itself).
Good thing they’re outpulled by anything over 6G and you can see them from farther than any missile in the game.
Proof?
Seems like you shouldn’t be flying directly towards it then. What other missile do you know of where the meta is you just fly towards the big smoke trail in the sky and wait for it to spike your RWR???
Even if you’re somehow caught off guard you can still outpull them. I tested this and any normal FM that can pull over 8G normally can outpull the missile and it’s prozy fuse with 5-6 seconds of pull over 6G. That’s not hard to do.
That’s great but the Fakour still isn’t a good missile for 85% of the round and isn’t good against any players who would make any match impact anyways. It’s still an F-14A airframe.
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Played quite a bit of the F-15J when it moved down just a few weeks ago, I can assure you that’s still how most players play it. And, like I said, they still get kills playing that way.
I haven’t seen someone save their Fakours for more dangerous shots, though in fairness it’s possible I merely missed it as paying attention to the killfeed is often a step too far given the constant information overload that is top tier currently.
excuse me? u probably have confused it with Phoenix, cuz Fakour-90 is far from being a missile ez to dodge at close range, especially with it’s extra G and speed compared with the AIM-54.
they’re still meta if played correctly, like i said before (close range).
He’s too far gone guys
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still good chance you can get into a notch, but you also shouldnt be allowing a f14 to fire on you at 10km in a direct head on to begin with, thats poor positioning
It’s a contradiction as old as time: people demands skill to play a plane they say its not OP, but when they die to a plane that’s allegedly OP, self-criticism fades like if it was from Thanos’ snap and it’s only a plane being apparently handheld.
Don’t get me wrong, Fakours are fast and decent missiles at the very least, and against unaware people (even knowing there’s the Iranian flag) they can still be a sudden problem, but 13.0 is certainly having a Superior 30 types of different threats greater than the IRIAF currently.
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