The whole point of a the missile is to track the target you have locked, not a target 45Ā°off boresight.
What sparrows do is realistic behavior from sidelobes or the sparrow going after a stronger return. Sparrows do not look for āyour lockā they look for the strongest radar return in front of them.
No they donāt, they do not do that in real life, itās an artificial nerf.
Everything Iāve read suggests they do. Either way, this conversation is over. I am more than happy to discuss the 12.0 meta from the other conversation.
Are you sure about that?
Sarcasm?)
Of all the missiles I have used so far, the Aim-7E and the Skyflash are the ONLY ones I have had the displeasure of seeing track a target that is not what my radar locked.
My SuperTEMPs, R-27R1, R-27ERs, and Aim-7Fs that have been fired at me have never suffered this issue. My friend who got the F/A-18A in the British tree also said he never had those issues, only had them while he was spading the FG.1.
I again make note of the youtube short I have. Perfect hardlock on a Mig-23, and upon launching my Skyflash, it tracked my ally.
My SuperTEMPs do not do this.
I am not saying otherwise. What Iām saying is that they do exactly what you want them to do when used correctly and donāt when you donāt use them correctly. You should not be firing sparrows at groups of players. You should not be firing sparrows at two people in a scissor fight. You should not fire sparrows at a furball etc. Fox-3s have this same issue of wanting to switch targets constantly when other targets enter their FoV and people often like to blame the RECEIVER of said missile (often a teamkill) instead of realizing they fired it incorrectly at a group where the missile had the opportunity to change targets.
I rarely have this issue because I make sure to practice good target selection.
There wasnāt an ally in front of me when I locked the Mig-23, only a group of enemies. My allied Mirage flew in front of me as my missile flew out. Iāve had them fly off for no reason as well, not tracking an ally. Its just a wonky missile. Iāve never had any of my Fox-3ās TK an ally, as they tend to prioritise the target you launched on or are giving them updated targeting data from a TWS lock, and Iāve lobbed Aim-120s and R-Darters into furballs and groups of players. Again, this issue is only with the Skyflash and Aim-7E.
Same result as what I said above though at least maybe it will hit an enemy instead.
I can assure you its extremely common. I am often the RECEIVER because I get into late game dogfights and people fire fox3s with no concern for TKing. TWS updates wont prevent a fox3 from switching to the wrong plane if the wrong plane crosses directly in front of its FOV in a high-radar return aspect. These fox-3s are only slightly smarter than IR missiles in this regard.
Okay, letās go through the list of 12.0 jets.
F-104S.ASA - not a bad jet, if people didnāt zomb bomb. Has a okay radar, no experience with it unless itās identical to the F-104Jās. Fast, canāt turn, overall decent plane. (Obviously with a better computer and Targeting system for Sparrows, I was talking about the F-104Jās radar being similar)
F-4J/S/J(UK) (basically the identical naval family of F-4 Phantom IIās) - Good weapon total, no internal guns, quiet āalrightā radar, nothing special, there are better at the BR. Sparrows flake on random targets, and especially love the MiG-23 for some reason. Flight model is akin to brick, despite this it can dogfight if you play your cards right, or get a good hand.
FG.1/FGR.2 - F-4E airframe with a F-4S/J radar. Basically a worse maneuvering version of these two, but hey, you have cyclical rate and a good velocity now at least for your gun.
Mirage F1Cās - Really, Really good plane for the BR, IRCCM missiles at 12.0, good thrust, good maneuvering, guns are slow but hit hard like the ADEN. No complaints, should probably be 12.3, very similar playstyle to the Mitsubishi F-1/T-2.
JA37D - One of my favorite planes, and possibly best performing on this list. BOL countermeasures, good AOA and Instantaneous, fairly strong engine, good turn around times.
Tornadoās - I havenāt played them and donāt really intend to, everyone trashes on them, to me it feels like itās an F-4EJ KAI at a slightly lower BR.
A funny about that nerf is, I shot at a F-4S, missile skewed way off on a MiG-23, Missile consistently tracking, once a few clicks closer I launched again second tracked the F-4S, both tracked in for a double kill.)
I digress, your experience is different from mine in this regard. I have been TKād in top tier mostly by IR missiles though.
Honestly love the Tornado F.3. Once I got the Skyflash SuperTEMPs it was like the sun arose on a dark night. It has one of the strongest if not the strongest radar at 12.0 with one of the best RWRs as well and an insane amount of CMs thanks to being one of the lowest BR planes to carry BOL pods. Only problem is that it has a dogshit flight model which has been bug reported but Gaijin hasnāt accepted it and Iāve all but given up hope on the Tornados getting a decent flight model one day in the future. The last victory we had with the Tornados was when the F.3 Late went down to 13.0 from 13.3.
Iām not the best player in the game with the plane and am currently in the process of fixing my K/D in it as it was a learning process during the stock grind.
But I most certainly do love the F.3 quite a bit.
Awful jet, has the worst RWR in game you can get. AUDIO ONLY RWR, NO VISUAL, faces 13.0
No, theyāre not. Educate yourself.
No. Magic 2 one trick pony.
worst accel of the general 12.0s. dogfighting performance is OK against gen3s, terrible against gen4s. In a direct dogfight this is worse than the F-4S.
No.
Ok, this happens so often I found an example from just yesterday. I am the F-18 Hornet that gets teamkilled. You can see the missile swap targets in real time.
Literally any person not brainrotted will say otherwiseā¦
No, youāre right, they are based on the F-4J, I thought there was a variant based on the F-4E. Iād have to look into the engines, otherwise itās a better F-4J essentially.
Amazing argument, call anything you disagree with ragebait.
Great argument, imply Iām braindead so thats why I disagree.
Compare your statshark and mine and get back to me.
Oh, yeah, statshark that one thing programmed by a cheater, hacker, racist, neo nazi, and is actively tearing the game apart with the live game viewer.
Anyway, I really donāt care. Comparing player stats is a pointless argument, this isnāt a player comparison, this is a jet capability comparison.
Iām sorry I actively choose to play the game how I like for fun and donāt sweat like 8 year old kids on fortnite, but you arenāt going to get under my skin by saying āErm, ackshully you should compare out player statsā
If youād prefer, use the in game profile viewer. Same result.
No, this is you replying with āragebait, youāre braindeadā and me saying āyouāre far worse at the game than meā as a response. Guess which one of those two things has merit.
I play the game for fun. Iām just not bad at it. You would not be getting this as a response if your previous reply was not āragebait, also youāre braindeadā. If you want respect, do not give disrespect.
Because almost everyone, even people I know who have played the game since its inception all agree the F1C isnāt hot dogshit like youāre trying to paint.
I didnt call you brain dead, I said you have to be brain dead to think itās a bad plane.