I am sorry to tell ya the Yak has always been good, people just didnt like to grind an end of the line plane without R-73s or R-77s. Before R-73s the Yak was the most fun you could have at that br bracket and now it changes nothing.
Conviniently forgetting r73s and r27er/et sealclubbing phantoms with worthless radar
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Anyone elsefeels like the map is a bit too saturated with long range saclos and radar spaa? Its basically like playing ground rb top tier but with multiple ground battlefields in a grid of 5 to 8 km. with maybe a 15 km zone in between redfor and blufor without ground units. And despite the roland systems for example are on the brink of uselessness in ground rb when controlled by a human, when controlled by ai as soon as you start a more vertical dogfight and dont scratch around the treebranches youre automatically dead, third partied by multiple sam systems.
Those should really be a bit more spread out to give some room for actual flying and maybe even dogfighting. Its ok as long as you zoom around at multipath height fortunately, but as soon as you go up you have s300, buk, osas, patriot, rolands and whatnot on you, rendering every actual dogfight in enemy controlled territory absolutely pointless and a lost cause.
Apart from that the gamemode is quite nice, finally something different from the usual air rb slugfest. Besides the balance problems, allowed vehicles (why exactly cant jets of the same br fight each other in this mode? Is their br not as equal as the number suggests?) and literally below 5, sometimes absolutely 0 people queueing for russia with 300 or more for USA (strange how that works gaijin). But for someone thats not used to higher tier jets this mode must be absolutely overwhelming, with the rwr constantly screaming at you from all angles while youre trying to stay out of harms way. Obviously then people would get a bit frustrated then to get constantly slapped out of the air ba a f14IRAF from 50 km away that they had no idea was there and had no idea the fakour was in terminal guidance less than 10 km away from them.
Harm testing is also…interesting to say the least. what a waste of hardpoints to bring those…100% interception rate.
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oh really? is that why every russian main ive been friends w have said the yak141 is bad dont grind it?
Nope. They won’t. That is a reason why US winrates do not go up in real air RB while each update adds a 12 amraam jet.
More missiles != better plane. And Su-27 / Su-33 should be here
su33 maybe not bc it has 8 r27ers which is a little unfair in general but su27 should be added
I am just ganna go and club US teams, arguing is doing nothing worth while.
You are just bad dude, fakours and phoenix’s are easy to dodge.
Do people genuinely struggle to survive in the bombers?
I’ve gotten a nuke on both sides and using periodic countermeasures is enough to not die to patriot and s300, but I’ve seen people complain about them on every platform known to man
They are. But somehow half the russian team that has never flown a jet in game dying to them all match long and feeding spawn points like crazy didnt get your memo. Can you somehow let those 1000s of players know to not lose the entire match by dying to phoenixes and fakours 50 times?
It also doesnt help that the russian rwrs arent exactly the best and adding to that your rwr is cluttered in this gamemode screaming on top of its lungs from 4 to 5 threats scans, locks and whatnot from 4 different directions at all times. Easy to understand why lvl 10 players then would get a bit overwhelmed? Skill issue, sure. But without those really long range standoff fox 3s it would be a bit more user friendly for our newly baked jet-pilot brothers and sisters that jumped into the pilots seat of a jet the first time to have some fun in this mode dont you think?
Its nice that long time players (like you and me i assume) that have top tier in multiple nations can benefit from this and farm the event, rp and sl from them, sure, rly nice, thanks snail. But is it really necessary to offset it even more by allowing those players that already have more experience to also bring jets of more than 1.0 BR higher?
I was playing it last night and in the TU-95M the patriot shot me down. What’s the max range of the patiot, and do I have to go defensive?
You just have to spam chaff and pray until you reach target. I dont know exact range of patriot but I can tell it has enough range. S300, patriot counterpart, shot me down right when I got into enemy half of map.
You fly straight to the main airfield, no defensive or ntohing, your ECM works as it should if u just fly level, but periodic countermeasures helps quite a bit too against jets trying to intercept you
They should give priority to US players who have completed the soviet part. That way the lobbies fill up.
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Honestly, not sure.
The yak 141 is pretty fun to use. I guess they dont like it because it is limited to 4 missiles.
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No issue with jets trying to intercept, only shot down by the PATRIOT, a did a slight dive though. I was racing 3 B-52H’s to our main airfield.
I’ve seen some rubbish like the reason so many USA players are queuing up is because the B-52 is such an iconic plane. Just rubbish. Tu-95 is an iconic plane with a long history, also. Heck, from the games I’ve queued up for, much of the USA players are flying in an iconic event vehicle that is suited for this event (F-14I).
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Even with it, a lot of luck comes into play.
Again, maybe with the old flight model
Would play ussr if exp would go into tree of my choice. Currently I dont have any ussr jets beside su25bm so all exp goes through huge penalty to some random prop. In US case I can at least grind 7 rank jets
This mode is so painful, it’s really difficult for low tier players to play well even after watching tutorials. And us low tier players then get punished for trying to learn with large SL deductions when we die.
Honestly, I feel like Gaijin should just make it free respawn since it’s just an April Fools event so players should be able to play without worrying about SLs. :/