yeah, i can. because in my opinion this shit is not belong in this game at all. i can understant fox3 circus on top tier, where everyone getting it one way or another, but not that lower, where first half of the match its pretty much f14 vs f14, while everyone else is trying to just avoid being hit with their shit, which is even tracking through anything, surface, mountain, anything.
thats what premiums are for. and id say if gaijin would tear of his bombs and rockets, leaving just missiles, there would be MUCH less of them sold. id dare to say most of them wouldnt be bought.
provide proof then. Im sure if it happens as often as you claim, you can provide several replays at once, which can in turn be submited to gaijin as bug report to get immidiately fixed :)
something tells me you dont have them tho.
Ive been spading Bis SAU for the past week, plane that has SPO-10 for rwr, and i havent died to phoenix once. what the actual f are people doing that they get killed by them?
premiums arent here to enable zombing ya dingus.
Premiums are here to provide vehicles, sometimes unique ones, that primarily offer increased SP and RP reward to players, secondarily access to certain tier/BR without need to have TT vehicles at similiar tier/BR, usually in exchange for money.
How player uses those vehicles is up to him. Some of them can be even bombers, like german premium tornado, but they arent here primarily to enable zombing.
The BOL Flares being so heavily nerfed is frustrating but I can almost forgive it for balancing reasons. The Chaff nerfs though make absolutely no sense to me at all and really need to be reverted. (That being said. BOL flares should at minimum be buffed up to standard flares if the large calibre flares they should be is too OP)
Tornadoes have chaff and a digital RWR.
Small chaff countermeasures are 1/4th the intensity of large caliber, so you need to use more for the same result.
And bringing chaff in BOL means less BOL flares which helps.
BOL Chaff is about 1/4 the strenght it should be. At best it should be identical performance to standard calibre chaff and at worse slightly worse than standard calibre chaff (it depends on whether the weight difference in contribute to the use of plastic instead of metal for the casing or for the actual payload amount) in either case. BOL Chaff is without a doubt underperforming.
When combined with the placeholder Flight model of the Tornados which significantly nerfs the instantaeous turn rate of the Tornado. Getting into the notch succesfully is much harder than it should be and thus defeating SARH/ARH missiles can be quite difficult. or at the very least, far harder than it should be
As a final honourable mention. We should also be able to swap 1x Aim-9 out for a Phimat pod to add an additional 210 chaff on the airframe.
Yep… BOL is in a fairly dismal state currently. Unfortunately gaijin are looking only at the Gripen and thus the F3, SHar, F-14, Viggen, etc are all suffering currently.
How many times do we need to remind american mains that phoenixes are extremely potent force multipliers? They allow one player to disrupt multiple opponents from a range where they can launch with impunity. Those opponents either die or are forced to waste time and energy deviating from the pack to take evasive action. This breaks up the size of the enemy formation and places them at a numerical disadvantage when both teams merge in the center of the match. This force multiplier effect makes the phoenix one of the most powerful missiles in the game for influencing the outcome of a match even if every single phoenix misses.
The only thing halfway keeping the phoenix in check is that most modes have mixed matchmaking, so you have phoenixes on both sides of the battlefield working in roughly equal measure against each other. In simulator battles USA has had an overwhelming advantage for years, and it shows with the abysmal state of people queuing for red team vs blue team in sim lobbies.
I dont know if its changed much since the MP reduction. But my experience in SIm is that most F-14 players ran Aim-7 in sim rather Aim-54, simply because most targets would be within MP and the Aim-54s work best an altitude where no one flew.
Not disagreeing with more people on bluefor than redfor, but id not really contribute that to the Aim-54, but rather other factors like better multirole aircraft like the Phantom and F-16 and the poor performance of soviet aircraft withwise of radar and RWR.
The phoenix isn’t the only advantage blue team has over red team in sim. There are a number of problems impacting the balance of power. Blue team simply has the advantage in most every category. Them having a complete monopoly on such long range pressure is just one issue. Quality of RWR is another big one. A lot of blue team mains forget that not everyone has a fancy digital RWR that tells you precisely the direction of the incoming threat. A lot of adversaries have dramatically less capable RWRs that just tell that the missile is approaching from roughly that time zone. I remember some people in matches complaining that their planes don’t even have RWR to detect the phoenix, but that was before the BR decompression and I don’t recall what the plane was to check if it’s still in matchmaking range.
They have also made that ahistorical change so that many soviet can now detect PD radars, which should help somewhat.
But I do know the frustration, at least in a secondary manner of a bad RWR. The Buc S2B, SHar FRS1 and SHar FA2 all have placeholder RWRs which show a fraction of the information they should. Despite much of my desire to do so. I have barely touched the FA2 due to the amount of placeholder parts (HUD and RWR are the main 2) which render it nearly unplayable. Last time I tried, the RWR was just spammed with “IPD” pings and I had no idea what was going on (though the IFF filter will also help a bit with that as well)
A lot of american players just come off as entitled. The phoenix is one example where they have the advantage of a clear monopoly on an advantage than rival nations cannot match. But their response to this objective advantage in their hands is lamentation that the power gap isn’t even greater.
Yeah. They can certainly be hypochondriacs, though at the same time. Im on the fence with how good AIm-54s actually are. At least they can usually be fairly easily defeated if you know what you are doing. they are also underperforming i beleive due to the fact that dual-plane missiles arent modeled (or something like that)
But overall and returning to the thread at hand. Im not sure whether the F-14 should move up or stay put. The F-14A has a clear weakness of Aim-9Gs and the F-14B does have to contend with the BOL Nerfs. Im not sure whether Aim-54s alone make it the equal of many of the aircraft at 12.7 or higher. I serously doubt it could cope vs an F-15C slinging 8x AMRAAM in a full uptier if it was 12.7
Ive actually ran a test mock fight against friend in his F-14A vs. mine MiG-29G. Standard large vietnam like you would get in random battle, fuel consumption and everything.
I had exactly 42 phoenixes launched at me (once friend landed and rearmed). Only one ever came close to me, and that was when friend ambushed me at 20 km by turning off his radar.
