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.
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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