i want to ask the balancer what i can do on my shahak that is flarless aginst the mig25pd or any aircraft at 10.3+ with IR missile???
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I only played the French Mirage IIIC, but I’ll try my best to help you because other than the missiles the planes are pretty much the same iirc.
First off, against planes that have ir missiles:
- If the plane is slow (Su-25 or A-10) do your best to not have them on your 6 at close range. Keep an eye on them, take them down from behind or above.
- If the plane is faster than you (MiG-25, F-5… ) then start praying.
Then, against MiG-25:
Fly low and hope for the best. They usually fly out of visual range so you rarely see them coming.
Something I find important to add is about headons. Don’t try to headon planes with superior missiles. Trying this strategy on russian 10.x planes is especially deadly. When they try to headon you, play defensively and try to get behind them, because a headon will result in mutual death in the best case.
Overall, your best hope in uptiers is to outskill your opps. This br is full of undertiered premiums, but those are almost always played by incredibly clueless wallet warriors who will do trivial mistakes. Punish those mistakes as much as you can, your airframe is potent when well used.
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you can see my stats and you will understand how much “skill” i have spoiler not much
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also what will i do when i low just some guy will fire IR missile and i am dead cuz i dont have flaers
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Don’t worry I’m not very good either, I only achieve around 1.2 k/d usually, but that’s still above average and enough to crush most noobs
If you’re low on energy and someone fires a good missile at you, you’re most certainly dead (dodging can sometimes be achieved but it’s pretty much gambling). You’ll have to keep that in mind when play these planes, they bleed badly and their agility depends entirely on their speed, so make sure to never get slow.
This is especially a problem when facing several enemies at once, as evading a missile will cost you energy which prevents you from dodging forever. For that reason, it’s best to avoid these 1v3+ and try to take on enemies one at a time
If you see russian enemy playing BRs 10- 11.0 just spawn runway and J-out.
Its even worse now they are all on the same team so have no enemies that can kill it.
I don’t do that anymore, at least not in my Mirage IIIC, because now I know better than before how to handle these. Sure it’s rather unbalanced, but you can still do something in these battles if you play the right way. It’s insane the amount of 10.3-11.0 planes I’ve blown out of the sky simply because they were target-fixated or just blind and deaf.
And the satisfaction when you take one of them down, is everything.
I dont J-out either, I just stopped playing airRB. Playing anything at BRs that can face mig 25 plays out the same- few players left vs jets you cant catch, trying to end game on tickets. Il pass
Do you imply that you play ground or that you play arcade or sim?
I don’t find that issue too bad, but it’s rather annoying yes
Started playing ground but its already obvious its get worse issues than air with balancing so wont last long lol.
Everyone is dead after 5 mins in air RB most games- so with mig 25 in the mix its up to 25 minutes of zzzzz
At least the mig25 broke my WT addiction… well that and AESA radars for all at same BRs was it for me
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The thing is you used to be able to reliably do these headons at high altitude with the R530. Even in uptiers. Now with the mig 25 anytime I tried anything similar I got shot down before even getting a lock on aynthing
I never did a with the R530s, for some reason I never managed to get a lock frontally
How? It really is not hard. You lock at 10km and fire at 8km.
Oh you mean at high alt? Yeah no I don’t fly that high it’s too dangerous for my chaffless, flareless, rwr-less plane.
I fly like 20m above the ground lol
Okay. Well I have about 1000 battles in it and this strategy of going to 10km using the R530 and diving has worked almost flawlessly until the mig25 arrived. If you have an ounce of awareness you can easily shoot one person down and dive onto the rest.
It still works in 10.3 and bellow matches and can work in 10.7.
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I’ll try that then, at least it will force me to check my surroundings more
Sadly Mig 25 has stopped anything other than hugging the floor.
The early high action was good b4 25. The only place a dorito can be flown well IMO as you need height to recover energy.
RIP j35, mirage, and many more. Was fun while it lasted
ye and there still pepole saing there is no russian bais minwhile mig25pd
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not even bias here I think, just horrible compression