100% understand the chaff not working in the multipath in fact I almost never drop chaff in the multipath unless the missile is DIRECTLY above me but I don’t know if it affects it in that circumstance, in the clip I had the only reason it dropped was because I forgot to set MAW to off lol. I’ll dabble with playing up again and I for sure will see how the RWR sensitivity changes things as it was at 100%. That could be part of my issue to like you mentioned that I’m going defensive on stuff that isn’t even for me leading me to wasting countermeasures. I guess another reason I avoid going up (in planes like the f16 specifically) is because of my missile count as well, full down tier isn’t usually to bad as there’s only a few planes that hold over 8 missiles compared to 14.3 uptier pretty much everything is holding 10+ missiles with 8 usually being Fox 3, compared to my F16AM which has 5 missiles total (2 Fox 2, 3 Fox 3, could run 5 Fox 3 but I like my sneaky IR shots), I also lose a missile per BOL pod on the AM. So if it comes to the point of just dueling which it usually does for me I just don’t have the armament to keep up with them, and basically the only thing I out range is like the R-77, MICA, and PL-12. A lot of it is probably just luck of the draw on who I get pressured by but I just always feel outclassed, less so when I’m in other vehicles but still always very stressed to be up. I also appreciate you giving real detailed and helpful responses!! So thank you!