Well, then stop paying.
naw you fr? mind blowing thanks
I appreciate the sarcasm (if that was your intention)
yeah np, :)
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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failing to get kills with Magic 2 is wild skill issue
I can see this one being real this is a lot of people across a lot of different forum post posting about missiles feeling off after the update, I’ve been struggling to get pl-8’s to track targets even afterburning targets seem to be able to pop one or two flares and just make the missile go off.
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Nice non-answer… On the other hand, maybe, just maybe, something in the spaghetti code mess that is Warthunder is broken (again).
A valid point, if and only if, we weren’t very clearly stating that we were able to get kills consistently and then while doing exactly the same thing were suddenly not… So, no, clearly not a skill issue.
Can you two sycophants/fan-bois just take a step back and accept that the game just might be bugged for the 8,755,652,258,588,988,523 rd time?
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Yeah I have used AIM-9M, PL8B and AAM-3s after the update and I have seen them get one flared is much more common now.
side aspect, rear aspect, afterburning, non afterburning, closer range (1-2 km), medium-longer range (3-4 km) etc. No matter what scenario I see a lot more missiles just going for the first flare that is popped.
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I know it is an old post but god damn the magic 2’s go for flares even more then aim-9l … full AF aircraft pops one flare and it goes for it… even from side aspect…
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Did 9Ls get a recent buff/ something fixed?
Ignoring flares like never before. Even using the f16 (cant remember it ever being an issue) if you dont cut burner you are RIP. Harrier too- even with no engine on it doesnt care anymore.
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