Just expect that you where spotted first stay in the notch and wait for the merge.
That is a perfectly viable option. Early ARH slingers don’t really get boat loads of missiles anyways.
Had no idea there was a whole iceberg here lol. This is rather goofy. Just a bunch of good players trying to show their egos.
I suppose this is very different to just the average dude stepping into a match with a bluefor plane however.
Also to comment on this, your first reaction when getting illuminated by radar and CW should not be to fly straight towards it while getting low.
You should die doing that.
You can always notch, as people get used to this they won’t even bother firing as the missile will just miss.
The average blue side jet player is a newb and if you look at where more experienced players are concentrated these days at top tier., it’s on red side. When F-16C / F-15C was dominant it was reversed with only relatively small contingent of experienced players banding together.
This is why blue side sentiment around two years ago. Introduction of Su-30SM was a large turning point that eventually flipped player count disparity.
Yeah there are people like simply sinful and all.
Whole friend groups of them. Very good 100%.
But why would a group of newbs want to fight them it’s a slaughter.
Again the highest I really go is 13.0 and my kd is like 1/1 on average or so but I don’t shoot bots. I’d say I’m just average don’t expect average players to go dump SL in too tier sim so you can murder us all lol.
This is the de-facto norm at top tier now. This is screenshot of same 3 person squad that with one of the guys who complained about being targeted because someone in my discord pinged me to fight them on Vietnam map.
There is mostly no competition amongst experienced players in top tier sim. If there are three lobbies open and two different squads of players looking to play the game…they will either end up pub stomping in different lobbies or end up pub stomping in the same lobby.
Me and Sin ran an experiment with Rafale and making sure to play in different lobbies than the other experienced sim squad that was running Su-30SM. Often times we could watch the scoreboard and see a guy quit one lobby and join another just to avoid good player spamming the best plane in the game at the time. It took about 4 people playing in 2-3 different lobbies to basically kill Sim mode on a Saturday night.
Sure, I can do that, the notching . Because I have 1000 hours in the game mode.
But how about new players?
It takes 10s if not hundreds of hours to get into the rhythm of notching and become sufficiently good at it.
New players need an easy way to defeat missiles, otherwise there’s no incentive for them to play the game.
Why else is iron dome meta super prevalent at top tier?
It’s a simple, easy way for new players to stay alive. I don’t like it, but it makes sense.
And I’d rather have players at least play the game mode than to just abandon it all together.
It’s why you might as well play arb these days, or just other games in general, it’s super dead anyways
while i played the bison in sim, i can notch quite literally any missile other than fakour, oh god its acceleration is so mental it will hit you before you even fully turn for the notch
i stopped playing bison in sim ever since the hornets came, they seem illegal for 12.3
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Well the F-15A is now 12.7 BR.
Look at that team balance and composition on a 12.7 top BR day. Funny how I recognize Exozet as F-16C player from when the plane was very strong for the BR.
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It’s going to die more anyway
It should be at least encouraged for new players to join the game mode and try to survive any way they can instead of essentially creating a walled garden where only experienced players are the only ones that can play.
And both multipathing and iron doming helps with that.
Again, I’d rather have mechanics in place for new players to at least try the game instead of them just being pummeled and then deciding to just go to another game mode without giving it a chance
insane lore drop
this so pathetic its laughable
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But what does this prove
That noobs don’t want to fight pros?
This is up to gaijin unfortunately and I don’t think they could care less yk
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Exozet isn’t a newb. He has been playing Sim for longer than I have afaik.
It’s just small sample size of larger trend of how players tend to play and pick their planes + games. Newer brackets with an even smaller population just compound the issue.
Why do you think the F2A ADTW is the most popular in sim amongst the 12.7+13.0 premiums? Why is it arguably the most popular amongst very experienced players?
Because it’s very good lol. Gets good avionics, missiles, and a made up gaijin FM.
So why would a good player not use it to clap booty cheeks and make a lobby un-fun.
Where did f15a come here?
It’s arguably the best 13.0 plane in the game. The Gripen A might be a close second.
A common complaint amongst sim players is the lack of historical matchups of fact that both teams are composed of mixed warsaw pact and NATO planes or adjacent types. A common suggestion is to put all NATO planes and adjacent types on one side regardless of the national tech tree and all Warsaw pact planes on the other. So no Swiss F-18s fighting American F-18s etc.
How would that work at 13.0? In January there were 31,000 sim games in just the F2A alone. The strongest Warsaw pact plane at the same BR is the MiG-29G and that plane only had 1,650 games played in the same timeframe. If you add the games in the R-60 equipped MiG-29s…you get up to around 10,000 games.
Those numbers remain similar at 12.7 with the combined total for F-18 is around 40,000 games.
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Your comment was about losing interest in playing the game when you have to face planes that seem overpowered for their battle rating.
The F-15A is the best plane at 12.7 by a very wide margin.
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