F/A-18C Early Hornet is not fun anymore

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ive got to be honest ive never had a fox 3 fired at me from an angle that defeats multipath. usually its just lucky hits from a BVR toss.

when a missile is shot at me i do change direction but notching doesnt really work against quite a few radars so i found it to be futile. Certainly never works against a hornet when i use them.

I find low altitude to be the advantage as nobodys missiles (until you get into range of russian/chinese IR missiles, aim 9m doesnt work lmao) can touch you at all and BVR is boring to me

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to be honest, my play style with F/A-18C Early is quite counterintuitive, even when uptier

where most of my team are flying low, i tend to fly high lmao, thats why feel defeat PL-12 is more difficult than Aim-120.

happy to share my replays

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I don’t recommend flying high with only FOX-1 missiles, they are best as a head-on missile joust weapon or to save a teammate from an enemy in a dogfight (as IR missiles cant be trusted)

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Yes!

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can we make that a br of 12.7 can be uptierd to 13.3?

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F-18C Early’s equivalent jets are at 13.0: F-14B,

The only reason F-18C Early doesn’t join its equivalent aircraft is because F-15s, Su-27/33/J-11, and F-2A are 13.0 as well.

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lol.

F-16ADF shits on premium hornets in every way while KWS can easily forces hornet to go notch or multipath with Aim-120’s while sending Aim-9’s with irccm.

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Not fun now that’s its not regularly fighting 11.7’s and 12.0’s?

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Dunno, Ive played Hornet again this month after like 4 month break and I find it more fun than ever, currently sitting at 2.45 KD across 60 games, compared to my alltime 1.76 across 232 games.

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Another forum thread where somebody complains that the absolute strongest jets at their BR are too weak for their BR

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t46

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i find that bit really funny hahahahaha

this guy didn’t get it tho

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Its the best 12.7 no doubt, in fact best 12.7 hornet sits in German tree ironically, problem is 12.7-13.7 is so compressed that most of the time premium hornets find themselves against Fox-3 platforms.

They shouldn’t receive br reduction tho.

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not in my case, i always face uptier than downtier, even i still get kills at top tier.

but facing against Su-30MKK with PL-12 is too overwhelming

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im not complaining the aircraft, im literally complaining why Su30MKK still facing 12.3? while that thing is literally Su27SM

that what make playing Hornet not fun anymore, too much Fox-3 even at 13.3 games

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and those things still managable, i find no difficulties against these thing.

Su27 with worse RWR and radar
F2A even its has an AESA radar, Aim7M is too easy to notch

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exactly, especially Su30MKK and MKV are too undertiered. When 12.3 got uptier to 13.3, Su30MKK at high altitude is menacing to humanity

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Honestly just give it the 120a’s and bump it up to 13.3 or 13.7 and call it a day. Soviet prems got good missiles with a borderline useless radar. The F/A-18 prems can have okay ish missiles with an overly-ghosting okay ish radar.

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Why wouldnt it be 14.0

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Sure idm personally, but at that point lacking HMD is kinda pain like the Finnish version - it also has less CM’s and a weaker engine in after-burner mode than the late model which is substantial imo but but