I mean, how much it happens to people is subjective. Invisible missile kills have only happened to me every like 3-4 games, if that, and considering the amount of AA missiles being fired at you in a single game, even dying to it once a game does still put it in the “rare” category imo. If the bug happens once per 100 missiles, its not that common. People have a habit of remembering things that go wrong better than things that go right.
<30ms and RX 7800 XT. I dont think this has anything to do with me getting locked through terrain and eating missiles that came from space, but here you go…
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Nah with the right tactic you can reliably kill them with one ARM launch.
I come in at medium altitude (ideal is exactly enough alt to do a hard split S after ARM launch and not crash into the dirt) with the A-7 (as example), wait for the SA-8 to lock and launch before even readying the missile (prevents it from getting distracted by the nebo), very quickly counterfire the offending Gecko, perform a split S and run away while waiting for the HARM to impact. The running away is the critical part, if you break LoS it will engage your missile. Staying in their LoS keeps them distracted long enough to kill them. Once they’re dead, their missile is stupid and you can evade it.
If you do it properly, you’ll kill the SA-8 before it hits you and it won’t even TRY to shoot your HARM down. Just gotta make sure you stay in their LoS while the ARM is in the air, and reduce closure rate with their missile by running from it.
Have been getting reliable 3 to 4 SAM kill sorties with this tactic.
Edit: also should be noted that this 1000% only works with ARMs or fast AGMs, mavericks and GBUs are way too slow to manage it
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Not true i remember good times too! Like that one time i got slammed by a missile after i didnt receive the slightest radar ping for a solid 5 minutes… Absolutely amazing!
I’m gonna have to go home and study real ARM tactics and see if they have any effect when I get home from work
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You don’t sound like you need this video lol, but for anyone else interested.
Check out this video, should help 👍
Posting directly so it will embed.
@Twisted_Oddball posted it first, thx again T.O. 🍻
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Does any of you know the purpose of the AN/TPS-59 / Nebo radars? What good does it do to destroy these?
Huh, since when did the USSR get access to the FlaRakpz?
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I have 120 ping, 4070 Ti Super on max graphics. I’ll watch the missile smack the ground yet somehow kill me seconds later.
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Once Fuel depot is captured(by AI convoy), everything there changes side.
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they were not, 2 day in gaijin buffed a stat called max target angular change from 5 degrees to 20 degrees. the osas only got a buff of 15 degrees, so its very funny everyone is saying they better than the nato stuff and have been terminators since day one.
I wonder if they also made it ignore trees. In a match right now and the last 4 missiles from an OSA that has killed me has flown through entire forests to kill me as I’m tree top level
they ignore trees because they are saclos missiles aimed by the ai, the ai is aiming at you through trees, rolands do the exact same thing.
people are only complaining about the osas because everyone is playing usa, they are identical in preformance to the roland and other nato sams, bar bugs.
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Greatly reduces the effective range of the Patriot/S-300 site near the destroyed AN/TPS-50 or NEBO site.
Check out these maps to help you locate the sites: Nuclear Thunder! - #5911 by SilentTracker
Ah, didn’t know that was a thing, thanks
That part I expected, but I mean like the missile themselves. The only counter today has been actually putting them into the ground as altitude masking doesn’t work at all.
Thats neat, thanks! Do you know the multipliers or anything for it?
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yes, they are not radar missiles, that is the only way to defeat them.
Well flying through an entire forest should destroy them as it was yesterday xD
yeah, the buff should be halved imo, i like that harsh sams promotes skilled gameplay for pve, but its a little too tight.