It's either two-tag team or straight-up dogfights.
What will usually happen is there's someone manning the AA and another jet baiting. The AA sits in a general area and the jet leads you into chasing them to which you'll get shot down by the AA (the AA has better range than stingers, so flying higher than usual will require even more elevation).
Otherwise, most dogfighters don't bother with heat-seekers. I seldom find myself using heat-seekers, only to get you to waste your flares and then I switch to gunners (so you are force to maneuver around and this causes you to be less aware of your air-situation, hence being shot down by AA).
Only on Kharg island will heat-seekers be of most use imo.
I just got the extinguisher, but most use heat-seekers.
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I'm really on the fence on this game, I mean, I loved CS 1.6 5v5s clanmatches (cod4 as well, 5v5), but this is nothing like CS right?
BF3 seems so big in every aspect, so its hard to figure out if the game is for you or not. I love game which takes a lot of skill to play (I love starcraft so much), so do you feel that you kind of get invincible in the huge crowd on the servers? Like you dont matter, cause your only 1 guy out of tons of other guys?
Sorry for the questions, Im sure its a great game, just checking if I should hop in or not
On October 30 2011 17:16 Torte de Lini wrote: It's either two-tag team or straight-up dogfights.
What will usually happen is there's someone manning the AA and another jet baiting. The AA sits in a general area and the jet leads you into chasing them to which you'll get shot down by the AA (the AA has better range than stingers, so flying higher than usual will require even more elevation).
Otherwise, most dogfighters don't bother with heat-seekers. I seldom find myself using heat-seekers, only to get you to waste your flares and then I switch to gunners (so you are force to maneuver around and this causes you to be less aware of your air-situation, hence being shot down by AA).
Only on Kharg island will heat-seekers be of most use imo.
I just got the extinguisher, but most use heat-seekers.
I haven't had heatseekers regularly on my plane since I unlocked rocketpods. There are a few uses for them though:
heatseekers with beam scanning are fun. I've recently started just launching 1 rocket to bait Flares and then relocking to launch another. You lose air radar though which is really helpful so its really only for messing around. Heatseekers good against helicopters tho with or without beamscanning. Either they use their flares and are vulnerable to stingers or they already have used their flares and will eat the rockets. overall rocketpods are much much better tho
Extinguisher is better than IR Flares, but only thing that IR flares has on Extinguisher is the fact that stingers are bugged and can kill you without killing your plane
Fly straight-up when locked on by stingers, you'll be out of range before they get a lock.
You don't need heat-seeking for helicopters. Most AAs or Stingers will get them or you'll pretty much shoot them down with bullets (slow down and just line 'em up, ezpz).
I prefer Flares with Stealth. Gives me more time to get within my AA buddy or enough time to stall at the skybox rim and lose the lock. Getting hit by bullet damage just involves tricky play with sharp turning and boosting or braking hard.
On October 30 2011 17:51 crappen wrote: I'm really on the fence on this game, I mean, I loved CS 1.6 5v5s clanmatches (cod4 as well, 5v5), but this is nothing like CS right?
BF3 seems so big in every aspect, so its hard to figure out if the game is for you or not. I love game which takes a lot of skill to play (I love starcraft so much), so do you feel that you kind of get invincible in the huge crowd on the servers? Like you dont matter, cause your only 1 guy out of tons of other guys?
Sorry for the questions, Im sure its a great game, just checking if I should hop in or not
You have squad and team Dm on smaller maps, had a team DM on caspian Border which was just the gas station flag e on conquest.
But the game is all about the Scale of war in the battlefield from the Air battles, tank warfare and Soliders on the ground, you will never feel invincible unless you are playing Conquest on Operation metro ;< ( get it out of the TL server map pool). play as a team and with your squad and the game is much better
On October 30 2011 17:57 Torte de Lini wrote: Fly straight-up when locked on by stingers, you'll be out of range before they get a lock.
You don't need heat-seeking for helicopters. Most AAs or Stingers will get them or you'll pretty much shoot them down with bullets (slow down and just line 'em up, ezpz).
I prefer Flares with Stealth. Gives me more time to get within my AA buddy or enough time to stall at the skybox rim and lose the lock. Getting hit by bullet damage just involves tricky play with sharp turning and boosting or braking hard.
I never said you needed heatseekers, but they are viable versus helicopters. Slowing down is a REAL bad thing a lot of times anyways. Regardless its what I do since its the most obvious thing to do, but only when the other planes are dead. I don't agree with the whole going straight up thing as well but w/e works works i guess
honestly taking stealth over air radar and flares over extinguisher confuses me and I'll just leave it at that
A few times a night yeah. Personally I mostly get my game client not loading the next map and having to restart -__- but we all get those lovely disconnected from server there goes your ribbons gg.
what does everyone do when they want to fk around?
I've recently discovered spam repairing the littlebird with your friend pilot is funny as hell. We survived for like 10 minutes of straight stingers on davamand peak because between flares and endless repair we just wouldnt die
Then he got shot out of the pilot seat and we fell infront of a tank
Just unlocked tv missles. Dissapointment of the century. Only 60 damage, which is okay i guess, but with the dodgy netcode, half the time the missle doesnt register a hit on the tank and actually bounces off the tank body. Simply amazing.
On October 30 2011 19:57 Keitzer wrote: Plane's on my ass.... shooting bullets like a mad man...
How do i dodge him and get behind him since there's no easy way (to me at least) to dump speed...?
If he is competent in his MG aim, there is no way. As soon as you bank you'll present an even easier target and get destroyed. It kinda sucks in that if you are versing a competent pilot and get him down you have to spawnrape the runway otherewise if het gets up and see you out of position you will die
On October 30 2011 19:57 Keitzer wrote: Plane's on my ass.... shooting bullets like a mad man...
How do i dodge him and get behind him since there's no easy way (to me at least) to dump speed...?
If he is competent in his MG aim, there is no way. As soon as you bank you'll present an even easier target and get destroyed. It kinda sucks in that if you are versing a competent pilot and get him down you have to spawnrape the runway otherewise if het gets up and see you out of position you will die
ya, i'm getting better at that... i still prefer the chopper control over the jets (especially the ones where the pilot can launch missiles... Viper and Z11W?)
On October 30 2011 19:57 Keitzer wrote: Plane's on my ass.... shooting bullets like a mad man...
How do i dodge him and get behind him since there's no easy way (to me at least) to dump speed...?
If he is competent in his MG aim, there is no way. As soon as you bank you'll present an even easier target and get destroyed. It kinda sucks in that if you are versing a competent pilot and get him down you have to spawnrape the runway otherewise if het gets up and see you out of position you will die
ya, i'm getting better at that... i still prefer the chopper control over the jets (especially the ones where the pilot can launch missiles... Viper and Z11W?)
On October 30 2011 20:06 zoltanium wrote: Just unlocked tv missles. Dissapointment of the century. Only 60 damage, which is okay i guess, but with the dodgy netcode, half the time the missle doesnt register a hit on the tank and actually bounces off the tank body. Simply amazing.
video footage of what im talking about
Check out the bouncing shot against the chopper haha.
Wait... You all talk about the game? why is nobody complaining about the shit that is origin? I mean on every german forum everybody puts the game aside cause of this fucking spying programm...
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