If this comment gets 500 likes I’ll deactivate windows

activate windows

You know the F-4F ICE is bad when it doesn't even show in the 'cope' side of the thumbnail

It's so nice to know that an F-14 slinging all of his AIM-54 at the beginning of the match is now meta not only because of the fact that you are now forced to use chaff to evade it but also because it now has the best br bracket, 1.3 below top tier. Not mentioning it faces planes like the Su-22M3 with 12 countermeasures.

the fucking tree pics are hilarious lmao, i never paid attention to it

Regarding the splash damage issue, correct me if I’m wrong but every fox 3 missile in the game other than the pheonix uses a continuous rod warhead. There’s a metal ring thats been bent in a zig zag around the explosive charge, and when that charge detonates, the ring becomes superheated and expands in a kind of cone of death, sawing the planes in half. If a missile proxy fuses onto the ground due to multipathing it is literally impossible for this cone of damage to harm the target aircraft. The pheonix is the only fox 3 that actually uses explosive fragmentation because it’s not effective on those smaller missiles, and the pheonix at the end of the day was designed to kill sea skimming cruise missiles. I still don’t think that the pheonix splash should be so large for balance reasons though. This would be something we can bug report

US mains at top tier Air RB are the equivalent of USSR mains at top tier Ground RB.

I need a Marker with the distances to the ground, not the sea, man I become a boat with the sea when I was a "30m" of altitude

Well you used to be able to cope by multipathing while stock grinding or when you have low cm planes.

I think you should maybe activate windows

I've been preaching the new stock grind terror. This was especially prevalent during my KWS stock grind. You are literally flying an inferior airframe, shooting inferior missiles, with no chaff. Your experience is either spawn, fight, die or spawn, defend, fly around begging for scraps or strafing ground targets. It's actually so demoralizing.

i think that with smaller teams, there will be less missile spam, but also it means that there is potential that one person can shoot fox 3s at every member of the other team which is pretty silly to think about. But being actually able to notch effectively would be a dream!!!

Imagine using a plane like a kfir or something with like 30 countermeasures and only ir missiles 💀

No one is talking about how shit the derby and r-darter is, it's almost impossible to hit anything 15 km or more, and I never hit anything above 20 km, this thing is lofting to space and some people still think the derby is a good missile...

Just like the night battle slider, the smaller battles toggle is simply the illusion of choice.

Completely agree with you but id refuse to play the smaller matches unless they proportionally increase rewards per kill, otherwise you are just shooting yourself in the foot just so you can do bvr

I hope they fix the wobble on the missiles.

The reason why nobody talks about multipathing IRL is because its an unreliable method of defeating missiles. I'll make no arguments here against or in favor of multipathing in warthunder, but strictly speaking IRL:

BVR LARPers doesn’t understand this isn’t DCS and that war thunders gameplay doesn’t work currently with this BVR larp fest that is top tier currently, they can’t it trough their head that 16v16 is not realistic at all, I’ve tried to explain that meshing realistic features with the ace combat furballs we have doesn’t work well

fully agree with you. i cant be bothered to grind for the f15j msip and f4f ice because top tier with current f15j and mig 29g seems impossible to play because everyone has fox 3s except me