Matra Magic 2 now eats flares like the AIM-9L. [Has anyone else noticed this?]

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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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Well, then stop paying.

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naw you fr? mind blowing thanks

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I appreciate the sarcasm (if that was your intention)

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yeah np, :)

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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.