IR Missiles Only mode in air battles(No Radar Missiles allowed)

Game Discussion Realistic Battle
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Hello WT Community, I was talking with some friends that it would be nice to add a mode for realistic air battles with only the use of IR missiles, without any use of radar missiles to make the good old dogfight more active, you could create new scenarios like a high altitude dogfight, something that you never see caused by radar missiles, it would be nice to add a mode like that, being able to activate or deactivate it with night battles in ground battles, would you like a mode like that? let me know yours
disclaimer: this is the first time I post on the forum since I started playing WT back in 2014

  • Yes
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say you want old top tier jet gameplay without saying you want old top tier jet gameplay

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OP is the only one that voted yes lmfao.

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If you want the old IR based playstyle, you can always play 10.3/10.7, radar missiles are easy to defeat and some IR missiles truly shine.

But don’t drag top tier planes back to that, it’s not a solution to anything.

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Tell us Guns Only and there may be a chance

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yes, because with the maps that have clouds even at very low altitudes it is almost impossible to avoid the missiles (mainly Fox 3) or there are other maps where you can’t go too low because there are trees or there are trees with wrong hitboxes that even if you don’t touch them the plane explodes, since even dogde missiles don’t always work, then it’s more of a mode to have fun without having to go crazy for radar missiles, I don’t see it as a problem if one can enable or disable it, let’s say that not all players like radar missiles

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side climb/flank get the bottom of your plane where the nose of the enemies are (notching) and once you flanked you can yank your missiles and play like usual since most of the missiles are sent at the start of the match

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but it would be a shame not to use the most modern aircraft

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Let’s say, not everyone like WT

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true

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Oh you dont like the HiGhLy skilled missile bus gameplay ? Must be a skill issue. How can you not like the most low skill capped gamemode of air rb ?
There is nothing better than 24/7 snowball effect, no dogfight experience.

There, now there is nothing offensive in my comment about the pinnacle of jet vs jet experience

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This is like the “tanks only mode” it’ll be a straight no as the answer.

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I dont think we should further divide things into niche rule sets.

Not to mention that it would require a seperate balance data set.

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Not even close to TO mode.
The equivalent of OP’s request regarding tanks would be something like “APHE/HEAT/darts only”…

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Would give aircraft with MAW/BOL a colossal advantage, the gripen and Mirage 2000-5s would absolutely crush everything else

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“Love it!”

  • Gripen Pilots
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i voted yes but your words nake sense. pure basic skill. u r right.

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I play ARB for radar gameplay. No thank you.

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The issue is balance. You’d have to have an entirely different set of BRs for every aircraft. Many have their BRs purely because of the weapons they carry often times that is the SARH/ARH missiles. Sea Harrier FA2 for example would barely be 11.7 without AMRAAM

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And it’s just not worth putting in that much effort for a mode most people wouldn’t care about.

Put that effort into decompression/balancing instead of an IR missile only mode.