When you have an enemy on your 6 and there is a friendly approaching to help you, dont make it as difficult to help you as possible

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When you have an enemy on your 6 and there is a friendly approaching to help you, dont make it as difficult to help you as possible.

The amount of times I approach to help the friendly just for them to make it 100000x more difficult by pulling crazy manoeuvres is staggering, more often than not they give you a perfect setup then as soon as you are about to fire they pull some janky manoeuvre or split s and ruin it and they die.

Pulling a split -s when I am approaching the enemy 6 doesn’t help anyone other than the enemy,

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I have honestly had friendlies baiting an enemy for me on his 6 for like 8km and let me get close and catch up but once I get close they pull a 180 or something it’s crazy and VERY common.
Crazy to see people work so hard to ruin it.

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What I find is that if I’m diving on a friendly in trouble, I have a perfect lineup, have speed, so the friendly rolls under my nose, so does the enemy and I can’t pull for a shot without hitting the ground. It’s so annoying because then they die

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Better way to explain this:
Do not head-on your ally.

Go perpendicular to your ally so you show your ally the side of the enemy.
Going head-on will only force your ally to disengage potentially causing your own death.

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I was not referring to a headon scenario but nonethless I 100% agree.

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i tend to almost head on my friendly until 2.5km then do a spiral out so that hes got the perfect shot.

i would go as a more agressive notch angle but they often dont realise

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I want to help you - let me!

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Applies to ground mode, too. You’re in an SPAA, yet your teammate in a jet tries dogfighting like Tom Cruise in an area where you can’t even help him. Whereas he could have just lured him over the battlefield.

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This is also very true, awareness or acknowledgment of your team mates goes a long way.

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No, you just want to steal my kill! You can’t have more kills than me, I am Manfred von Richthofen incarnate. I am like a weasel, watch me, while I mesmerize the enemy with my masterful moves and kill him myself.

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Ngl im also somewhat impressed at their ability to pull these turns at the worst possible time every time.
Like a 6th sense

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lol

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This is sound in theory but in practice often the teammate is near death and has do everything just to still be alive by the time you get there.

But I know what you’re saying because I get the same frustration when I try to clear a friendly’s 6.

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Managed to shoot down an enemy jet in this situation while the freindly jet was losing and he got mad that I ‘stole his kill’ lol

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People that need to read this will never read this
People that read this already know it
Ironic

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I think the core issue is people forgetting this is a team game, lol.

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Gaijin forgets this is a team game…

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Same thing applies for spamming flares when someone is on your tail no matter what. Friendly flares have prevented me from missile-ing enemies numerous times, and I wish it never happened again.

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