I really haven’t changed my way of playing much. It’s simply the game that has changed (for the worse) by removing firing positions on the maps, making the maps smaller and smaller but full of obstacles, destroying the damage and penetration model, etc. In short, the one that has changed the most is War Thunder, which went from War Thunder to Counter Strike but with mediocre damage.
Aircraft is the only thing that War Thunder has remained the same, with changes to the FM and changing the damage model of different weapons from time to time.
Very early when I started playing I was a Germany main. Grinding British tanks forced me to learn shot placement rather than aiming center mass and expecting APHE to do the job.
More recently, playing gun only fighters on sim. I found props to be a slog, but with early jets what I knew about DFM and tactics just clicked. Meteors, MiG-15s, Sabres, J29s, have been quite fun to fly. Spading the Sea Venom was the most fun I’ve had in the game in years.
that’ll trigger so many people here.
Zelator dueling videos.
Seriously, look that stuff up.
Two things for me:
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Switch to VR for flying
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Switch to Sim EC for flying
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Adapt or suffer. It’s wild how much playstyle habits can get baked in, especially after years of flying low and fast in mud movers.
The Typhoon really does force you to flip your instincts on their head: suddenly you’re playing the altitude game, actually taking advantage of the jet’s strengths, and the whole experience clicks into place.
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Flying high with ARH plane is actually safer than decking.
Is it tho? I mean, aren’t you just get instantly locked by whole enemy team?
Using the stock typhoon , i tried deck hugging for the first 3 games and died with zero kills, first game i went up, got a kill
Not only does alt = range when it comes to a BVR fight (its why the FA2 use to outstick a lot of other aircraft with AMRAAM despite being subsonic, it flew higher than most) but altitude gives you options in how you can defend. Hugging the deck is only useful for defending against SARH/ARH missiles fired from low alt, does very little if the missile is coming from above.
In the few recent matches in the Typhoon I’ve done in ARB (I usually play ASB) I didnt feel I was engaged any more than I am in something like the Tornado Gr4 in which i stay low (granted different BR brackets)
I generally think people actually fire ARH at low alt people because they may be dumb base bombers who wont defend and thus are a free kill. I know if I played something like the F-14 and got a downtier, I’d fire every single Aim-54 at targets flying low and not high
Huh, maybe i’ll try it out, thx.
I always thought that ARB peaked around 10.3-11.0, but i’ll try eurofighter again with this mentality.
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Typhoon especially excels at climbing and loves being up high. There are ARH slingers Id recommend not climbing aggresively in like the Tornado F3 Late for example, but yeah Typhoon + AMRAAM do really really well up high.
Fingers crossed it gets a replacement radar next major update
Key to enjoying prop tier flying!
I played alot of KSP, I still have a hard time grasping TCX lol
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Easier with cockpit view and the gunsight/canopy to use as a reference (which is different for every plane, but still).
You ever go to the Mun without map mode, waiting for it to line up in a particular spot relative to Kerbin before burning? Same idea, except rather than do a prograde turn you ease your turn for a few moments (fly straight or at least lag). If you draw the circles as orbits, it’s kinda the same effect as setting up a rendezvous.
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Thanks :D, I grasped it now, I was having a hard time comprehending on when to TCX. Played an ARB match and I managed to get into an offset 2-circle fight. I saw winning cues and decided to do a TCX and got a kill.
It really is like KSP
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How to stop holding W and rushing into places because my Tank wasn’t as tanky as a tank should tank
When I found out SAS mode damping exists in Air Sim, I realized I’d been playing without it for so long during multiple vehicle grinding events.
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Meanwhile I think I need to get better at holding W and being more aggressive in GRB. Some matches I’ll play so defensively the match is over before Ive seen a single enemy
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My “aha” moment was a manuever that I call “the pre-aimed immelman”
It’s where you point your nose at an overpowered plane (e.g Mig-21/J-7, Mig-23, F-8, or T-2) then perform an immelmann, and hold that angle for an extended period of time.