Curse and blessing both: It makes radar practically useless, so I have it off most of the time (exception ACM in dogfights when I’m already spotted), and detect targets mostly visually and passively via RWR, skimming a lot of the time a treetop height to hunt.
That’s a quite different playstyle and tactic than most other aircraft/pilots use at that BR range, so you can stealthily catch a lot of players that either don’t know you’re there (as you’re not triggering their RWR), or feel safe from you as you’re no threat according to their RWR…
You really should learn the art of “If I don’t have anything constructive to say, I don’t say anything”…
Especially as you - as you yourself claim - do not even play that game mode. So why comment or even rant about it, if you 're not familiar with the specific intricacies of that game mode?
OP asked a valid question, that was discussed in detail:
The F-4S is really in a tricky situation in the Sim EC game mode, due to its placement in a BR that only has a small handfull of vehicles which in most cases are in the same team even, meaning the only way to play those aircraft is when choosing higher BR matches.
And as the next BR (12.3) doesn’t even have it’s own bracket, you inevitably have to play those 12.0 vehicles in 12.7 matches, where they’re heavily outclassed in the Sim EC environment.
Sure, you can make them work too, but you’ll always be at a vast disadvantage, which obviously isn’t a lot of fun in the long run…
How is it worse than the other F-104 variants in its BR in Sim EC? I think there are other aircraft in Sim at 10.7 which I expect to struggle way more…
if i get upptiered to a game with F14, and now i get uptiered every game (probably due to the f14 event) i get killed by the radar missiles. even if i hit the deck, even if i go around, event if i go to space… i don’t get any warning (probably because of my radar is weak)
maybe i don’t know how to use it, but i do not have the same experience in other planes on similar br.
I don’t fly it myself, but judging from its equipment, I’d expect it to be ok against bases thanks to ok load in conventional bombs and napalm, but it’s of course also an ok fighter with Sidewinders and Sparrows, as all Starfighters especially dangerous because of its speed.
I’ve had no issues finding sim lobbies in the F-4S during the 12.0 bracket, and it does extremely well because
everything else is being uptiered.
The aircraft I struggled most against was the F1C-200, but it was relatively easy to avoid them. MiG-23s was 50/50 on who would win. Otherwise it pretty much slammed everything else in the lobby.
f4-s now is dead in sim. most of the time its straight up unplayable. idk where guys defending it find their lobbies, but in mine there is always mig-29. a lot of them. and they are better, than my phantom at everything. f-4s was a good premium plane before the snail decided to kill it.
its not about f-4s even. its about anything on 12br. that br is dead since its playing on bottom almost every brecket.
the worst thing is that snail knew whats its doing so it wont change anything. its not a mistake.
Yeah, i know. Almost every day its fighting mig-29 and rarely, when the time is right, phantom can catch a moment when its not on bottom. One moment in a whole rotation. Awesome brackets.
So what? Did i say f-4s is the only one broken by new brackets or what did you mean by that picture? That there is a bracket, when its on top? I know that. As i said. 1 bracket its on top. The whole other time its on the very bottom, against a bunch of mig-29 from both ussr and germany lines.
Where am i wrong?
