Just use the su25t and wield gun pods. Not good as su 39 due to lack of radar pod and digital RWR but still decent
Maybe the old flight performance.
F-4s out accelerate and out run you. MiGs break up at 790 mph on the deck if not lower. Meanwhile I can push the F-4 to 850 easily
Speed isn’t everything
The wing sweep is the thing that makes the MiG-23 crazy in the hands of a good player
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The anti air has to stay, the modes focus is nuclear strikes and there has to be something to not make that a braindead task
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One of the best parts of the event is the lack of fox 3 (other than phenoxs which are bad) and that su 30
It’s nostalgic in a way.
I’ve not had any issues with Fakour90s and Phoenix missiles. Maybe in a more optimal setting it would be ‘better’, but currently the amount of radar clutter and how missiles just seemingly just screw off somewhere else entirely its not as big of a deal as ppl make it out to be.
Yeah I actually enjoy the setup of the combat. It would be doable if anyone could hear their missile warnings at all.
-US lineup is too strong / Soviet lineup too weak
-Soviet SPAA is too strong and buk is overpowered
-Whats the point of the big 2500sp bombers if they get immediatly railed by the buk missiles after spawning in the air?
If they’re not going to permit Su 33, then they should at least add a su 34 air to ground preset to actually warrant the far more effective American fighter availability. The preset state of it is somewhat miserable with uncontested American platforms, and barely effective attacker presets.
Coupled with the general lack of ELINT modeling, and inability to target specific installations with ARMs, it is tedious.
The HARMS are also annoying to use. So i just switched to walleyes and mavericks on the A10. then the match bugged and i got no RP, so not playing that dogturd of a mode again. i dont care enough for the rewards
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Please add flanker gaijin.
I just wanna play blue side, been playing red side for 4 hours straight cause blue side never finds a game because no one is playing red side
I really like the event but there is a bit of a balancing issue. As people have pointed out, the US has a heavier hand fighter wise. And Id like to see not the F-14 removed but something added to Russia/Soviet Union to level the field bit. Buff versus nerf sort of thing.
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It may just be delayed, it happens sometimes. Try reloging.
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The only major issue with the mode is that aircraft above 12.0 are allowed.
F-14, F-15, and F-16 have no business fighting a MiG-23MLD; the same is true (but not quite as bad) for MiG-29 and Yak-141 vs F-4E.
That aside. It is a FANTASTIC gamemode that should come to the game in some way permanently.
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I don’t think the ability to bring your own planes should have been a thing to start with
The US preset lineup could have used a F-4J and the match-up would have been completely fine
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More importantly, add presets for the fourth gens
It would have been fine if your own aircraft were mostly similar to the ones you’re given. For example a Su-17M4 for Red team would have been appreciated, being faster than the Su-25T and not as fat as the Su-24. But F-15s? lol
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Agree.
My results till now:
7 soviet battles, 2 wins
5 US battles, 5 wins.
The F-16A is IR only, and -9L’s at that, so jousting with R-23 &-24 are a viable option.
It’s only the -A so again -9L’s and AIM-7Fs is it a bad match up sure. But there are still MiG-29s and others with R-27’s and R-73s so it does balance things out
You can easily kinematically defeat AIM-54s by rolling. the IRAF is mostly the issue but isn’t that common considering its from an event.
And with the lack of the TCS being properly implemented the AWG-9 can be dealt with easily by notching.
If i could ask for one thing would be providing an exception, to let the F-117 be able to be flown.
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Yeah the F-16A is one of the worst jets in the game, especially in a chaotic battle full of IRCCMs (R-73) and SARHs.
Still miles ahead of Kurnass 2000 though. Kurnass 2000 is straight up slop.