In my experience, Sparrows have been like this forever
I had a match on Thursday and I was playing the F-18A, fired an AIM-7F at an enemy, it immediately beelined at an an enemy F-111, got confused by chaff, and then proxied a teammate. Mind you, the F-111 wasn’t in the area the Sparrow should’ve been seeing
I think the reason why is because Sparrows are scanning the whole area in flight rather than locking the person and the aircraft that launched it is just there for moral support and to point at where it should be
Either way, Sparrows desperately need to be fixed, but I feel like it’s a radar issue and not a Sparrow issue
The AIM-7Ms on the F-2A seem to track and hit more consistently than on the F-16C or F-18A
I get what you’re coming from, sparrow was always quite wonky, however i never had a situation where it would go for a target 22 kms away, so i feel like whatever was wrong with them really intensified after the update. Also could be me just having terrible luck after the update tho
1- Bad launch, got notched.
2- Bad launch, likely got notched.
3- Okay launch, got notched.
4- Bad launch, the target kinetically defeated the missile.
In every instance the enemy player just correctly defeated a radar missile.
You could name this “R-27ER” and it’d still be the same conclusion.
All semi active radar missiles in the game will be defeated by notching, and each one has kinetic defeat solutions.
the first shot got notched
the second shot went for the mig21 since the mirage went out of sight (why the mig21 still got illuminated is a mystery, but this actually happens with every sarh missile)
it looks like 4 didn’t even track tbh, i dont think that a sparrow could be kinematically dodged at that range with a single turn, also by turning into me not away untill after the missile has flown by. Also in clip 3 it wasn’t a full notch (because my radar wasn’t notched) so do sparrows get a larger notch gate?
not entirely sure, but it could be that the target got filtered out?
very little acceleration compared to you
can you link a replay? would probably answer that
Unfortunately for some reason i haven’t saved the replay, but it looks like they just lost track at the last second for no reason. Also I dont think that low closure is a problem since the “notch gate” (the speed filter) is set relative to the ground and not the speed of launching aircraft (which is displayed next to the target box)
They singlehandedly made me stop flying the f18C early, they are completely worthless, if I fly the F18C E i only take aim9L’s, I don’t bother with the sparrows anymore.
Just got kicked from a match for teamkilling two people because of rogue sparrows, had the ACM lock on the target and the sparrow just ignored the target and choose to track its own target instead which was an ally twice, the second missile didnt even make so much as an attempt to go towards the enemy before darting off after an allie well above what my radar should have been seeing.
nah they’re super easy to out roll and notch. compare it to the 7p, at least it takes a bit more effort to notch that though you can easily out roll that.
