Can someone give me any advice on how to play this thing, I have it spaded from years back when it was actually good and I’ve recently started trying to grind out the Eurofighter but it’s just been a pain.
It’s a dogfighting plane in a meta that is all about shooting missiles from 30km away. R-Darters are close range missiles so you rarely get into a position to even fire them. Despite my best efforts to notch and multipath I always get shot out of the sky by an AMRAAM or R77, rarely even getting a kill.
And before you tell me, yes I fly low at tree height…
Is it even worth playing?
yet the best plane for top tier ARB for several consecutive months was Rafale, a plane without long range ARHs ;)
Thats might geniunely be the issue lol.
Just to demonstrate, Ive been spading F-16C in the past two weeks, the 13.7 matchmaker is extremely forgiving currently.
Cant imagine ever so slightly slower but more manueverable Gripen with more CMs doing that much worse than F-16C.
You didn’t really give me any advice… If I fly above tree height i’m getting shot out of the sky, so I resort to flying low. What works for you with the F-16?
you underestimate how handicapping the rdarters are compared to the 120.
any long or medium range shots will not hit because of the terrible missile behavior, forcing you to wait and get closer while your teammates fire away, not to mention it only has 4 of these missiles.
Yeah, its a defensive beast, but with only 4 fox 3’s theres not much impact you can have, not in 16v16 when everyone else has 6 - 8 fox 3’s
fly high to the left with your team at an offset, use your radar to scan early game and see what your enemies are doing to plan ahead.
R-darters are shotgun missiles so any 20km under is your ideal range, and dont go spamming them all at once, fire at ideal targets pointing at you
Flying high. Sideclimb to 8.5km-9km alt, or just below the contrail, keeping speed around mach 1.20.
If I dont have to waste AMRAAM to scare off a attacker, I only fire them at 20km to keep the time to target low.
are Derby/Darters really that handicaped at 20km and less ranges ?
so does F-16C if you take two sidewinders.
