Have had the f5c for a while but I’ve never been too good with it, to me atleast, it seems like it’s extremely underpowered in many ways for it’s br. Missiles are mediocre, speed is bad and theonly thing that makes up for it the praised energy conservation. But in a match with 11.0 br planes (which the f-5c should never meet imo) what am I to do against superior speed, radar and missiles. I either get shot down by a missile 5km away (which I try to countermeasure) or I get gunned down while trying to dogfight someone else. I never have the speed to catch ANYONE. Question is how do I get better because the plane itself isn’t inherently bad, just dificult for me.
lol.
Its gunfighter.
Its gunfighter.
Its gunfighter.
You possibly cant suggest lowering its BR.
Simply popping CM by itself isnt enough.
Dont get stuck in furball in the middle of the map.
Realistically most planes can do one thing, and that is to run away from F-5C or, if they have teammates around, swarm it, because F-5C will outginfight most of the planes it can see.
As for surviving long range shots, either multipath before merge or notch while popping off chaff.
As for dogfights, dont get stuck too long on one plane and try to jump lone targets.
If they try to fly away break the pursuit.
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F-5A(G)-40, its a F-5C with 9L at 11.0, the 9L are used the same way i do with the 9E, fire at people not paying attention or use them to get people to bleed speed and get slow for you to hit with guns. Keep your speed up, around 900-1000kph, only turn about 6-7G’s at these speeds to keep your speed. You get slow you die, BnZ people will normally give up chasing you if you stay fast. Ive killed plenty of F5E FCU and basic F5E’s because they get slow thinking ill turn fight them, once they are nice and slow i normally send them back to the hanger as at 900 kph i have better TWR than they do.
I run 25 min fuel and just missiles, keep yourself fast and try to hunt people going for your allies, the best kind of enemy is one whos tunnel visioned on his prey.
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Do you climb at the beginning of games? Fly straight at enemy spawn or at an angle? How do you engage? I just lack experience and hit less often that I should because my aim isn’t the best
I’ll def try that, I’m mostly not sure what to do at the beginning of the match, I do pretty well if I last long enough and there’s not a huge cluster of missile carriers
No, i stay low, i often get 12.0 games with PD radars so i stay low and off to the side, ill turn in to the map once im behind the enemy line, once there i pick my targets, look for people you can try to get a gun kill on or a missile kill if they aren’t paying attention. Stay fast and use periodic countermeasures when in hordes. Learn to get away when multiple people want you. If you get slow and that happens be ready to die, only get slow if you know you can get the kill and if you know you cant get away.
It’s a shame to admit but I usually run 2 blu’s to get 1 base off because that way I almost guarantee atleast some rp and don’t waste my time just dying, my k/d is most definetly lower than 1
I avoid base bombing, the F5A/C doesn’t have the engine for me to waste my time bombing, especially given what my competition is for a base, additionally i just dont enjoy base bombing even in bombers.
I think you’re just not experienced in gunfighting, if you have friends with similar aircraft hop in a custom and fight each other, learn the line. Once you can see the line you’re accuracy will be much better, next up watch others when in a match look for people who do well and see what they did. See if it works for you.