This isn’t the first time, after the recent “Tusk Force” update, that I’ve been surprised by Magic 2 missiles easily tracking enemy flares after they’ve been fired.
This didn’t happen so easily before, and I thought it was just me, a mistake in my vision. But this has been repeated with many friends who regularly use Magic 2 missiles. The impression you get is that you are firing a Mirage Aim-9l missile that is only capable of carrying Magic 2.
Tell me, has anyone else noticed this and do you think it’s just you that this has happened to?
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Yes, I have noticed this as well and it needs an urgent fix. In both front and rear aspect my Magic 2s have been eating flares or just outright refusing to track. Extremely frustrating for those of us who pay for premium time just for the game to not work as intended.
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You’re just thinking something is happening that isn’t because you had a few launches get flared.
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though did you notice that actual Aim-9L ignore a lot more flares than before, enemy can use all of his flares and Aim-9L will still hit.
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Congrats you witnessed a player preflaring or flaring so much + turning off afterburner so the magic 2 goes for flares
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use afterburner = ur a hotter target = 9L want hot plane
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naw you fr? mind blowing thanks
I appreciate the sarcasm (if that was your intention)
There has been a bug with gatewidth that leads to canceling the narrowing, yet I would doubt if this thread is about this problem.
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I’ve only noticed in the last 2-3 days to be honest… I was rocking a 3:1 k/d in the Mirage F.1 now its dropped to about 2:1 largely (entirely) because the Magic-2 just doesn’t work anymore.
I’ve had about 2-3 kills with them since Monday, out of about 30 launches, last week I might have had 2-3 misses out of 50 or so launches… Either this missile was nerfed or IR was messed with in general.
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I also noticed this with R-73 and R-27T/ET sometimes. Once, I launched an R-73 at my friend (he was in a mirage F1C) in custom battles and even though his flares shouldn’t have been in my missile’s fov, it still went for flares while his afterburner was on. I don’t really understand how a missile designed to ignore flares goes for flares anyways.
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So a couple patches ago they’ve changed the behavior in witch the missiles acquire targets in order to make ARHM’s not so easy to notch.
I belive(but have nothing to prove) that this change affected IR missiles as well and makes them see flares outside of intended search area.
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Same. It’s unbearable. Even a single, A SINGLE FLARE will throw off Magic 2s… FROM THE REAR ASPECT, on non-maneuvering planes.
What the hell is going on? I am glad to see it’s not just me.
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About 99 times out of 100 when somebody says a missile got “nerfed” they are just straight up making things up because their missile got flared once or twice. I doubt this is an exception.
THANKS I felt like I was crazy
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S/ Did you know that 67.85% of all statistics are made up on the spot?
Exactly what part of:
“it worked consistently one week and then consistently did not the following”, did you not understand?
We’re not talking a few shots being flared, we’re talking the majority suddenly being flared. I had been using the Mirage F.1 exclusively for about 3-4 weeks when I chimed in above, I was using the same tactics, I was familiar with the weapon, I knew what it could and couldn’t do… dozens of shots that would have connected now don’t. This means something has changed, it’s only a question of what… so save us you “making things up” spiel.
The part where people have biases
I noticed the same thing with the R-73. It used to be instant death in a dogfight, now it seems to act like an R-60
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