This is a 1v1 situation, not what you find most times in ARB. The guy you are firing on is also possibly notching missiles fired from differnent aspects and can’t manage both if he isn’t playing at “larping” distances. Or hes on the ground in MP trying to use that to stop you from hitting him when you launched from orbit, while also being in combat with everyone else that decided to play like that.
If you are playing at a safe distance its not a problem, it sucks that it might force you to reset the fight completely, but if your team hasn’t collapsed you can reset without being ran down.
Im still not anywhere near a pro air player, but I don’t see how climbing, trying to win the fight at altitude, and if you do, doesn’t put you in a prime position for the match, vs lawnmowing and knife fighting other players on the deck, you will be food if your team loses the fight at altitude to the other teams plays up there unless you manage to get directly below them and spike them, which is going to require you to come out of MP to do so and if you are playing inside these furballs that’s going to get you killed by other players near you on the deck.
YES which is HELPFUL towards MY POINT because the point is while you are flying at 6km, all it takes is 1 guy to come from an off angle at the same time somebody else comes from a different angle and you won’t be able to defend. Meanwhile, if you were just multipathing… you could have notched AND multipathed… it’s a double layered defense that you do not have at altitude.
The same applies to you! How is this not understood?
You use BOTH defense mechanisms…
If you are a “safe distance” you are also just praying the other guy is a monkey and doesn’t try to defend against your ARH.
It’s balanced out by R-77-1s being on a heavier, and less powerful flanker, and the fact that they aren’t the best in every single category. I was just saying that with the current state of the game. New missiles could come, but they would need to be balanced properly with decompression (or by being on a worse airframe than others)
With a couple exceptions, 13.7/14.0 is surprisingly balanced and there is a lot of parity between nations.
but in range, speed and turn covers short and even medium ranges reliably better than 120s on a platform that it’s way more suited for the current ARB setup than any other airframe atm with 14 missiles and 12 ARH + PESA.
He got almost 500 posts on that last one, maybe we will break 500 this time. These posts wouldn’t happen if they didn’t work, or WT forum users didn’t love to turn every thread into infinite tangents or nation bias discussion (myself included).
Quick, catch this 9M because you’re flying at 5km side on to me.
I am VERY aware of what flanking is. Even MODERATE flanking will lead to games being over before you can engage targets. Which one of us has been spading pure IR based platforms at 12.3-13.0 for the past month? Is it you or me?
Do you just say shit to say it? Like no logic or thought between the ears?
he loves to whinge and many of us enjoy seeing others rage and we are all guilty of egging the cope on.
OPs stats in aircraft that see aim-120 arent even too bad so idk where this came from other than to farm engagement on a platform that doesn’t value engagement
if ur plane is fast, u don’t need to take care about ur amount of missiles.
F-15E has 8 AMRAAMs, 6 less than the Su-30SM, but its faster and has absurd acceleration.
that means that is VERY probable that even if it has less missiles, almost all of them will hit.
if u say F-16A, all the ones here will think about american F-16A, not the belgic one.
at least say Block 15 to refer to it so everybody knows what u’re meaning
decent pilots (now u, obviously) know that playing agressive isn’t a insta-win technique.
u can’t just go to the middle of the map and spam R-77/AIM-120/PL-12, chaff, flares and go everywhere with afterburner.
sometimes its better to play safety, defending ur team from MP height or kill low height enemies so ur teammates can reach bases, NPC vehicles or catch high altitude enemies off guard
Su-27SM is made to fly high or low? when i go low i usually get good results, but when going high i always get 0/1 kill, or i dodge like 8 fox-3s and i can’t play offensively or i get gangbanged by the same 8 fox-3s