I love the event but OSA, S300 and default Phantom with 250 ping is unplayable rage inducing. I don’t know why because it was fine in the first 2 achievement goals. Russia is fine. Even when stacked with F14’s I could still do the challenge ok on my own but on US side it is rage inducing trying to make the default phantom work.
OSA needs to stop to shoot.
Shilka needs it’s radar up for Anti Radiation missiles to work.
S300 killing US on it’s own side of the map and Mig 23’s only have to drop flare stay low and fly in a straight line to the enemy Air Field and gun strafe new spawns because US SAM’s don’t work. AIM9L’s cannot resist flares making them unusable and the radar is impossible on the default Phantom.
I love the game mode but US is currently rage inducing compared to the last two achievement cycles which were fun.
AIM9 Missiles release too late to be playable at 250 ping. They’re literally releasing on targets that have already passed me. Finding it impossible not to eat flares with AIM9L’s which seem to be performing almost like AIM9B’s.
R60’s and R24’s unflarable even with throttle set to zero… That’s my current experience.
If there is some arbitrary delay in missiles firing when you’ve already warmed up the seeker head please remove it, it makes the game unplayable at moderate ping
(Stutter on loading in since a couple of major updates ago.)
I wonder if the server tick rate could be doubled or quadrupled to get weapons to work properly?
I have no idea how gaijin manages to fuck up this bad, event was literally peak the first few days, now its just straight up not fun, because SOMEHOW flaraks and osa can still hit u even if ur kissing the ground, and lets not forget the good old packetloss, event is great, implementation is also great, but the optimization is horrible, they need to fix the packetloss issues, and work on the AA, and also love the fact that the ECM just turns off if you have high p/l or ping, ive had the tu95’s ecm not work cus packetloss went to 80% for around 10 seconds which gave the patriot enough time to hit, but overall, great event, just needs to be worked on more and they should implement it as a permanent gamemode.
Expect updates/changes on Monday. BVV_d’s post stated that they are working on the AI as we speak, and they intend to continue making changes throughout the rest of the event.
I do not disagree with your assessments, just try and keep a positive outlook and continue to post your observations, complaints, and recommendations for improvements.
I fully understand and feel your frustrations, I feel the same way. Positive or at least constructive criticism will be the best way to effect changes that we all want 👍
Do you have the keybinds set for periodic countermeasures? You have boatloads of chaff for the B-52 and Tu-95, even with the ECM it is strongly advised to not only turn on periodic countermeasures, but also spam chaff for a few charges if you see a launch warning.
One sec, I posted about which keybinds in main thread, will post here too.
Here you go, I would recommend changing to “Chaff only” and then hitting the periodic countermeasures the moment you spawn in with the B-52 or Tu-95.That way you save your flares for if (when) an interceptor gets close and tries to use IR missiles on you:
Yes, it is. Buuuuut that is still “kind of” how it works IRL. They said they buffed ECM already, but getting chaff going periodic and spamming when I saw a launch from the S300’s kept them from even getting missiles up in the first place. I know you had packet loss issue, very frustrating. Periodic should keep going through PL issues though and give you enough time to continue your big nuke run.
Also, you probably already know, but you can set separate keybinds for flares and chaff too, again to save your flares for actual players:
NOTE: You can change the “switch countermeasures” while periodic is running, if you want to change to Flares+Chaff to just spam Flares if someone is trying to IR missile you.
