No, after the matchmaking separation, I mainly build my deck around the F-15A at around 13.0 (12.7).
Do lower ranks around ~11.7 match more quickly?
It took me 3 seconds compared to sitting 2 hours for nothing.
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I cannot agree whatsoever. This game mode is absolutely fucking awful. How the hell is anyone supposed to play this without already being a crack addict to modern fighter jets? Not everyone plays these stupid things, not everyone can spend 23~hours a day playing these, and some of us just want to try and get the new event vehicles without TEARING OUR EYES OUT from frustration. Are you blind already?
And no, not everyone wants to watch eight hundred different 40-min documentaries of tutorials just to learn how to play this garbage. It’s all just stupid, and it goes to show just how stupid gaijin is, again. They can’t grasp the idea that ‘hey, if we make a game that covers a wide base of machines, we’ll have a wide base of players - so maybe we need a wider base of tutorials!!1111!!’. So yeah, it’s a piss poor event by a piss poor dev team, trying to make more money.
Yeah lower brackets is almost instant, if anything for more comfort you can bring anything that isn’t above 12.0, I bring my F-4J because a PD Radar is essential in this event and I get matches in the US almost instantly
Hey I’m a fellow ground main, and these past two days have been a crash course for jet gameplay, I was in the same boat as you, but I do have some tips. Have you played any matches yet? If yes, did you complete the first stage, it ended yesterday, do this by checking events>Nuclear Thunder>Rewards>Whatever event vehicle you want>Stages. If not, you can still fund the first stage by getting 999 GE from the Gaijjin store. Currently we are in stage two, also I can pretty much only help if you want the B-52 by playing US. If you are grinding B-52, use the F-4 Phantom, and use the air to air loadout.
Missiles: Missiles are the main weapon at this BR, so it is of the upmost importance. There are two types of missiles, IR and Radar, you can check this by hovering over the missile information. IR missiles are, in my opinion, easier to use, as you can press spacebar (assuming you have a keyboard) to begin seeking, aim the seeker towards the enemy, and when it turns red, fire. REMEMBER NOT TO FIRE IF IT IS RED OVER AN ALLY, YOU WILL TEAMKILL AND GET FINED 22,000 SL!!! Radar missiles are slightly harder to use, but if you have your radar on the right setting (I forget which it is) you can press the begin tracking icon at the bottom of your screen. When it shows a green box around an enemy, press space to prime the missile, then space again to fire. AGAIN MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT FIRING TOWARDS A TEAMMATE. Also set an easy keybind such as the control or command button to use countermeasures, which distracts missiles and helps throw them off. Also if your missile goes for a countermeasure, try again, eventually your opponent will run out of countermeasures. Anyway that’s my crash course. PS. Fly low and fast to avoid being detected by the SPAAs and enemy’s radars.
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Well, if you don’t play with planes, you don’t participate in the event, and that’s all there is to it.
No physical law states that the event must be for everyone.
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no tutorial ah ?
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No, I don’t think you get the picture; I’m complaining about the lack of any decent tutorials or guides to learn HOW to play the event. Not that I do ‘not’ play with planes. That was obvious. I want to get the planes. I want to learn how to fly the planes. But not everyone is a loser gooner with days and days on end to waste learning this moronic game; believe it or not, some of us have ‘jobs’. The tutorials in game literally just tell you ‘press this button to shoot this missile!!’ - no tactics, no tips, nothing. They are all equally worthless.
And like it not, I have just as much a right to play this idiotic game mode as you do; I pay just as much as anyone else, and I put my money in just as much to get the ‘next new garbage aircraft’ as any other moron that browses these forums. So yeah, the mode should at least have some pointers. ‘No point, ah’?
No, wait a minute. If it takes you several days to learn, there’s a problem. If you haven’t grasped the commands and functions in 10-15 minutes, sorry, I can’t help you. The brain is a muscle; you have to exercise it.
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It comes with experience.
But I get it, you want everything right away.
How do you think people learned? They played.
And you figure out the tactics yourself, omg. You try this, it doesn’t work, so try something else.
There’s no such thing as a universal tactic, lol.
At first, I was flying high, but it wasn’t working. Corrective action → flying low.
Wow, that’s tough.
Stay low to avoid SAMs and radar missiles and focus on air kills. If you want to drop a mininuke, fly around the flank and, if you know how to do it, bomb tossing improves your chances of survival.
Edit: and unless you are actively engaging them keep distance to enemy SAMs. They are nightmare fuel.
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Learn by playing, so what’s the problem?
Aren’t you able to analyze information and draw conclusions to improve?
There’s no mysterious system here, you know. If you already know the controls, that’s 90% of the work. After that, it’s all about developing situational awareness.
This isn’t a combat simulation; the game is ultra-arcade.
Lol, this comment has been written at least 100 times on this topic. In 2 minutes you have it
And what he said is as basic as “If you want to get wet, go underwater.”
What he said is simply logic, nothing more, nothing less.
Hey, I also have a 300 word guide
Sorry, I got caught up talking to our friend; many thanks.
Your welcome, have fun, and I wish you the best in your nuclear endevaors
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Thankyou, bro.
Since my F-4J is stock, fighting with just the AIM-9D is going to be a nightmare. I’m going to join at a low rank to see if I can manage with rental weapons.
Ah… I really wish they’d do something about the higher ranks, too…
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I got a job I put 15k hours into this game as well, if I can learn it as the updates come out so can you. getting upset cause you gotta learn is only gonna stress you out. is it worth all the stress over a game to be this mad?
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