I don’t understand how the su27sm is the same BR as shit like f15c.
Like every match unless i go way out in left field and mudsuck for half the match and try to vulture whats left, im just flying defensive all game. I cannot hope to contest aim120 up at alt, and if I’m anywhere near the middle or outskirts of the map i WILL be defending against them and spending 20 or so seconds every time notching and flying away, putting my nose in a direction where I can’t go offensive because of it, and usually also being chased down like a dog doing this.
The only maps that are somewhat playable have a shitton of terrain to just hide in all match, and still the second you even pop up for a few second to launch something an f15 in space already sent something to your address.
Having such a disadvantage in the range department makes it just totally unfun to play. You can’t just hide and in multipath anymore and everytime you get a launch warning you are out of the match for half a minute defending. And anyone that plays top tier knows how fast these matches are over. You get 2 launches from a distance you can only dream of sending r77 from and you have to waste an entire minute flying out to fucking Africa to avoid them you are just losing tons of potential kills and the match is basically over.
I understand there is mixed matchmaker (because everyone and their dog is playing america and the MM would break without them on both teams), but the difference between the r77 carriers and the aim120 carriers is the latter can have stuff in the air, can launch way before, and can be both on the offense and defense, while the pitiful range of the r77 means you are just on defense the start of the match.
Please dont even bring up the r27er, SARH thats just barely better in performance is no match for ARH for reasons that should be obvious. And when it was top dog you guys had 100m baby mode multipathing. And thats another problem with russian jets, you have to mudsuck so close to the ground and your radar is has barely any functions let alone the ability to tilt up so you are effectively blind in something like the su27 while flying low, unless you whip out the HMD and just start spamming the horizon with lock like some kind of schizo.
Im over 200 games in the su27sm, and im just barely positive at this point but I cant do it anymore, every game its just f15c controlling altitude, and defending half the match and praying that no one chasing me down while doing so.
Hit the dirt and avoid initial AIM-120 spam (3-9/Notch them anyway. Im getting A LOT of proxy damage as of lately)
Dont bother with BVR - anything is having either better missiles, better radar, better airframe or all those things combine
You get 20km ACM, use it to spam R-77 on anyone who thinks they can climb above the safety of multipath
For furballs (or longer shots) keep at least 2 R-27ER on you (it easier on Su-27SM since you get those double rack R-77 in underbelly)
R-73 to be used within 1.5km range if head on (or in general). Better to keep lock on target to avoid the annoying last moment switch to prefired flares
I’ve tried using R27ET/ER but its extremely rare that im allowed even a few seconds of breathing room after pulling up over terrain to shoot or coming out of multipath, so the fire and forget r77 seems to work better for me but it just sucks the range is basically 15km at max. And you can’t climb and extend that.
It’s extremely rare I’m allowed to go offensive for more than a few seconds, so SARH just seems like a waste of pylon space. Its just the piss poor engagement ranges afforded by the missles on this thing, or the fact your only decent rate one is SARH.
The idea is you use R-27ER in situation then using R-77 is less than ideal, like said furball - good chances missile will lock on your ally and you will eat team killing penalty
You dont because russia has to suffer with inferior aircraft that are still artificially nerfed, only the Mig-29SMT is somewhat playable because it doesn’t have the shitty cassegrain radar that the other mig-29 and both flankers have but because this is gaijin the monkeys paw curls, so the SMT is stuck with the wrong engine making it less maneuverable than the regular Mig-29, also the 29 should be a 1 to 1 with the F-16 in a dogfight with it losing out in the instantaneous very slightly but because of gaijins awful balancing the F-16 shits on the 29 all they have to do to fix the mig-29 is remove R-27ERs on the A that it never used and give it the R-73 it had along with buffing both Mig-29 to 21° sustained AOA the same as the F-16 and finally give the SMT the correct engines
I’ve noticed the TK’s but I thought that was just the HMD lock being weird, I’ve also got a TK yesterday in the mig29 with an ER same thing happened got an HMD lock, but the literal second the missile got in range the two dogfighting intersected paths and the lock change to the friendly.
Also noticed the locks from HMD will slide onto friendlies if the target dies, as if its automatically looking for a target in range when it looses lock and since it doesn’t discriminate between friend and foe it does that.