I’ve been facing F18s for a week in 12.7… Is this sort of last resort to cash in as much money as possible before the servers are shut down? I mean 70 € is 70 €, but still. Does it worth killing top tier air sim for marginal gains?
As if the Merkava 3D spam wasn’t bad enough in GF? Now this?
Does the premium F-18 have some kind of ultimate weapon at this BR?
imo theyre free food
Farmers buy them and use exploits to enhance it’s capabilities, but other than it outmaneuvers soviets and can break a lock easily. It’s radar seems to be superior too. So far my winrate is 0% against them for the last week.
It just wrecks everything at this tier, so battles get depopulated quick.
i have easy time killing them in 12.3 mirage
good for you, but most players have a bad time getting farmed by them and just leave the battle
what aicraft you fly and have trouble in?
I think it will need some time until 12.7 rotations become reasonable again. ATM it’ a lot of “free for all” matches with Hornets on boths sides, plus other fighters like Mirage 2000’s and Fulcrums who prey on them: I guess they have much more experience on those types than the pilots flying their new Hornets.
Reminds me of what I heard from the introduction of the Hornet in the Swiss AF: In the first few months the old, experienced Mirage III pilots devastated the fresh, not yet well familiarized Hornet drivers somewhat painfully in air combat training…
Reminds me that yesterday I took out a few EF2000 and SU30 in SB with my JA37Di which is BR13 and I was in BR13-14 SB
Napalm tanks
true, while also fulcrum and mirage 2000 having great maneuverability and staying competitive when hornet pilots get experience
f-16’s should have no issue neither
not sure what kind of aircraft they are flying that causes issues?
In SB, all is a matter of skills, not only about the aircraft you fly. I regularly spawn the F-5A(G) in BR14 matches. Does not mean that you cannot stand against a SU30SM. But you got to play with tactics and not go heads on, which 90% of the people will do.
The F-18C premium is a very competitive F-18, if the pilot is skilled enough and knows the tactics to survive.
You find a lot of unskilled players in SB. There is always a very good chance to prevail.
In a RB or AB the F-18 is eaten by the higher tiers.
In sim huh? Ye it’s pretty sad right now, every bot mofo is farming the hell out of the game with it, highly annoying.
thats due of that they outnumber you
aswell as fact that destoroying bases gives a lot
soviets
i don’t see which fighter jet would have a problem
Pretty much all of them. F18 is not even in the same ballpark as the soviet jets. Me taking them down with a Mig-29 after 4000 hours of gameplay doesn’t necessarily mean that the rest of the team will be able to. The situation was bad before F-18 was added, but sim ec at that tier is like riding a bicycle uphill in headwind. I’ll ditch it until F18 is removed and end of story for me.
so you indeed have no problem with the mig 29 against f18
so it is not the aircraft but the soviet team skill
its not even that bad as the hornet players suck
I did a match in the Mig-29 yesterday and had no special problems with them either.
There was one F-18, that was very good and annoying, but that was just well played by the player. And even in a dogfight we were quite on par.
I don’t fly it myself, but what exactly does the hornet have, that other blue 12.7s don’t have?
They are slow and Sparrows and Sidewinders are really no superweapons at this BR.