Played 15 damn matches since getting this thing thing, and its genuinely useless. Missiles refuse to do anything, its speed is completely useless, it can’t use its main benefit of the climb rate because stock the engine and everything sucks
I genuinely have not killed a SINGLE plane. I don’t get it. its impossible.
You go High? You get picked off by Radar missiles or just can’t find anything to fight, Or when you do find something to boom and zoom, your missiles lose lock after 5 seconds, and the guns could miss a B-52 at 100m.
You go low? And you just a sitting duck to anything that can turn, or has anything above a Aim-9B.
Whats the POINT? How are you supposed to play this thing stock?
Yeah, no wonder you are struggle, you are stock… Stock grinds are meant to suck so you spend GE. That is Gaijin entire business model.
Spaded Lightning F6 or Lightning F53. Decent aircraft, especially when you can go B52 hunting.
Ive gotten 3-4 kills in a match with the Ligtning more than a few times recently, just annoyign the BRs are bit overally compressed.
ADENs are always hard to aim, I think the issue is the speed differential you are usualyl dealing with. Hawk, Harrier, Even Jag, you are way closer to the targets speed.
Stock aircraft, it is. Slower, accelerates worse, and a way harder to use gun.
And even vs 10.0/10.3s its a chore to play. Heck, most 9.7 Mig-21s will easily beat you in every respect, and kinematically defeating a 9G from something like a Harrier is really hard. Even when spaded. Compression even at 9.3 is bad.
Airframe is carried by its flat line speed, and a pair of Red Tops. Which take great care to use.
But OP has neither, because he’s stock. Though equally, shouldnt be complaining about any vehicle until at least 70% of mods are unlocked
Eh… I can think of way worse aircraft to spade than the Lightning F6, I remember the Jag GR1 being really really bad, so you’ve got that to look forward too soon I guess.
But I cant really think of a single vehicle that I would consider “easy” to stock grind, maybe one of the Tonkas thanks to getitng Chaff stock, but still not easy, just easier.
Stock grinds are designed to suck. Period. That is their entire point, once spaded, you never look at mods ever again 99.99% of the time. The point is the grind.
Look for slow things, A-4s or F-86s, keep an eye out for B-52 and Tu-95s and IL-20s. Worse case scenario go for AI aircraft or even ground targets.
I generally sit around 20k ft and dont have much of an issue, then just dive down onto distracted targets. Firestreaks are very short ranged, but work when you respect their limitations, 1-1.5km max and ideally something a bit energy trapped. Gets a lot better when you get Red Tops. (Fire about 2.5km, with a bit of a lead and you’ll kill anything distracted or energy trapped). They are even all-aspect vs B-52s and Tu-95s
what do you mean miss B-52 🙀😭???