okay im so fucking confused, got absolutely no RWR ping while being locked by a mig-29 from close range, at a entirely perpendicular angle, and still did not manage to defeat the missile

idk what the game wants from me, am i supposed to just not let it happen?????

@OrangeCatCatBoys which game?

@theking war thunder, trying to get my new f16 upgraded

@OrangeCatCatBoys ah, the only true plane game I have played is project wingman

@OrangeCatCatBoys @theking War Thunder’s radar system is notoriously shit, expect stuff like that.

@senhara @theking i know im just really confused bc this is the first time ive ever seen something like this happen

@theking honestly never rly liked PW, was too big of a ace combat fan lmao

@OrangeCatCatBoys I tried ace combat, but the support for flight sticks was so bad, I refunded it

@OrangeCatCatBoys @theking yeah unless you were beaming there’s no way that MiG-29 should’ve held that lock unless it was right up next to you.

My guess is, if the 29 has a Fox 3, it was released pitbulled and tracked you instantly. Either way your RWR should’ve informed you of the MiG-29 looking at you.

@theking @OrangeCatCatBoys your first problem was assuming Ace Combat was designed for flight sticks.

It is objectively the worst way to play the game. It is designed for gamepads and gamepads only, keyboard is doable though with HEAVY reconfiguration.

Anyways Nuclear Option looks neat.

@theking @OrangeCatCatBoys (ps. if you want me to get into why flight sticks suck for Ace Combat-likes just ask)

@senhara @theking radar was entirely turned off so in this situation there should've been absolutely no way he could get a lock on me. even if he did, i should've at least got a warning for it. the worst part is i had time to react to it and tried to defeat it however since i wasnt getting any rwr pings from that direction i thought it was a IR missile.

so i was like "oh i can pop CM and be fine"

i only had flares, and apparently it was a radar missile. felt like i was going insane lmao

@OrangeCatCatBoys @theking bruh.

okay yeah that just doesn’t make sense. Like in theory that setup makes sense, turn off radar, pitbull a Fox 3 at close range, but as soon as that missile comes off the rail it’s gonna keep it’s seeker right on you.

That RWR should’ve started screaming bloody murder.

@senhara @theking and like, i even accounted for it being a radar missile! i kept notching it while it was coming for me! it just did not give a fuck lmao

@OrangeCatCatBoys @theking depending on the missile notching alone won’t be enough. Like this is WT so yeah that should’ve worked.

Modern countermeasures rely on dropping chaff then hitting that chaff with a jammer to do a screwy with the hostile radar system and drop your position, this is because chaff alone fucking sucks nowadays and does nothing

@senhara @theking true, however even the most modern airframes in war thunder are very much their early versions. war thunder's everything is just very confusing and doesnt work due to the entire game being built on a mountain of spaghetti code and no matter what they do to try to fix it, it'll break 10000 other things. shit like this is what motivates me the most to get into dcs but thats at least a year or two out since my current pc is just way too ass to be able to get the most out of it :(

@OrangeCatCatBoys @theking oh yeah the F-15E for DCS is really fucking scary. It just never drops the lock unless you fly exactly right, and this is the F-15E with a mechanically scanned radar, full AESA would be downright code brown moment.

@OrangeCatCatBoys @theking This is against ROE. You’ve been locked on.

I get that you’re excited to be here, but you gotta follow the rules. And this isn’t it. You’re not playing War Thunder. We’re building a modern and threatening battlespace. This kind of Flanker isn’t the vibe we want.

@senhara @theking oh my fucking god