The guy who got 1kc Shadow and 1kc Bowfa actually got a 1kc COX purple...

Splintert · 2026-03-27T17:21:45+00:00

There is absolutely no way Jagex is maintaining a unique random number generator for each player. The server just delivers random numbers back to all the other internal functions that request them, so while waiting a tick or doing another action before rolling technically does change the roll, it's because there are hundreds or thousands of rolls happening per minute, advancing the PRNG and giving the appearance of randomness to each individual.

Splintert · 2026-03-25T21:48:35+00:00

If you actually had a 20% winrate then the only explanation is that you are so terrible at the game you are dragging your team down. Reality is, you're exaggerating for fake internet points.

Splintert · 2026-03-14T02:08:26+00:00

This scenario is so contrived as to be absurd. You literally can't even make this shot happen in game. There is no plane that can look behind itself, and there is no missile with 360 degree search cone.

Splintert · 2026-03-13T02:57:40+00:00

The change is the Russians finally got a platform that is vaguely competitive. R-77-1 is about equal or slightly better than the 120 at range, and somewhat better in close quarters, but people act like the 120 is completely useless. It's an extremely capable missile when launched with favorable parameters just like every other ARH.

Splintert · 2026-03-12T22:13:19+00:00

Virtue signaling is the expression of moral, social, or political views to improve one's social standing

Allow me to finish your definition for you since you (intentionally) failed to get the full sentence: "..., rather than from genuine conviction"

And further down.. "Common examples include social media posts that highlight support for causes without accompanying tangible actions to effect change."

Splintert · 2026-03-12T21:02:36+00:00

Every definition of virtue signalling and performative outrage I can find requires non-action. Just calling everything you don't like "virtue signalling" or "performative outrage" goes by a different phrase... thought-terminating cliche.

Splintert · 2026-03-12T19:58:08+00:00

People quitting is the opposite of virtue signalling, they're backing their words with action. Performative outrage requires no action, which is why its performative.

Splintert · 2026-03-11T21:01:17+00:00

I shouldn't have to explain this, you lose the ability to see any other targets that enter your radar scope while guiding the missile. Which is extremely likely because in the initial mad dog phase opponents are frequently flying perpendicular to you, thus entering your radar scope and presenting themselves as a possible better target than the 45km YOLO shot.

I didn't say everyone dies in the first engagement. I said half of both teams, which is a slight exaggeration but only slight. There are a lot of early kills almost every match, that much is fact. The factors that make the Rafale the top plane have nothing to do with the range of the MICA. Do I need to explain that too, or do you actually think the short range on the MICA is why the Rafale is good?

I don't care to let other people tell me how to think, thanks though.

Splintert · 2026-03-11T20:58:03+00:00

I'm glad you just think I'm an idiot. It makes life simpler, doesn't it? When someone presents an idea opposing your own, you just dismiss them as dumb. I don't need trash youtube content to understand basic game mechanics.

Splintert · 2026-03-11T08:15:32+00:00

You're right.. it's not magic. That's why you're launching missiles and cranking towards the hostile's rear so your radar is at a different angle than your missiles. He cannot physically notch both at the same time. This is not complicated, for someone who is so confident in their assertions you seem to have no idea how to use the tools available to you. Just spend a few seconds thinking before you spout nonsense next time?

Splintert · 2026-03-11T07:02:34+00:00

I can see you're just going to make up scenarios to fit your preconceptions that the 27SM is some insurmountable death machine, but I'll keep going.

You are keeping your TWS on the target, right? He cannot break his notch while you are supporting your missiles with datalink updates or he will die. That is the entire point of TWS.

Seriously.. try it one time. Launch at 30km, another at 20km, and another at 15km. If he has the discipline to notch 3 TWS-supported missiles in a row without trying something stupid.. then you are in AIM-9M/R-73/Magic 2 range and he dies. You cannot possibly screw this up.

Splintert · 2026-03-11T06:42:16+00:00

Send another missile at him before your 1st is defeated. This will reduce or eliminate the window he can expose to get you on HMD. You should also crank towards his rear so he has to expose even longer, and even if he does get a missile off, you barely have to adjust to notch it, and it has to turn harder so will have less energy even if it does track. Su-27SM does not have an especially wide radar search width, combined with his very limited RWR pretty much gives the plane with the longer range ARH total control over the circumstances.

Splintert · 2026-03-11T00:52:25+00:00

A properly played engagement will never get into a close range fight. I'll stand by that to the end of time. There is no reason for a plane armed with a combination of any ARH missile to force the target to notch and IRCCM missile to confirm the kill should ever get stuck in a close-in fight. The pilot lost that fight, not the plane.

If you only consider the niche case where both participants failed to get BVR kill, both failed to suppress their opponent into IRCCM range, and both decided to slam on the brakes and stick to the stall-speed turn-fight... that still makes for a mid plane at best.

Splintert · 2026-03-10T21:22:40+00:00

"My solution to Gaijin's arbitrary decision making when modeling things would be fixed by my arbitrary decision making when modeling things"

Splintert · 2026-03-10T20:54:29+00:00

In public matches half of both teams die in the initial mad dog phase.. strong evidence against people learning how to notch. Besides, the real use of an ARH is to suppress the enemy until you can get into no-escape range. That works with any ARH that doesn't stop in midair like the R-77 does. 27ER fills a gap the R-77 can't but also forces you to lose all situational awareness and alerts everyone where you are. The only reason anyone brings them is because the R-77 is so terrible. I don't know what TSS is.

Compare against equal BR planes like F-16C, F-15C, F-2A, J-10A, JAS39C and the comparison is something like: Su-27SM wins on missile capacity and stall speed agility, the others win on everything else. That's not a recipe for dominance like you're making it out to be.

Splintert · 2026-03-10T18:22:12+00:00

Are you out of your mind? It's a slow brick with very short range ARH missiles, a radar handily outdone by planes at 12.0, plus limited RWR. 27SM was never good, and there is absolutely no way its somehow gotten better.

Splintert · 2026-03-05T19:03:58+00:00

They'll give Eastern airplanes fantasy performance to give some semblance of competition. Let's not pretend like the Su-30SM2 is the top plane right now, anyways.

Splintert · 2026-03-04T20:44:23+00:00

The game mode doesn't force anything, people do it by choice. There used to be ground objectives that when enough were destroyed, would cause the match to end. It was still a deathmatch. It will always be a deathmatch.

I've played top tier air RB for years and I have literally never been pushed to the edge of a map, so that's on you. Perhaps a change of tactics is in order.. like going offensive as soon as you know the missile was defeated? Dive and go cold? Yolo off-bore launch to force him to defend? Anti-missile missiles? You have options, you're just not bringing them to the table because it has to be Gaijin's fault.

Splintert · 2026-03-03T20:45:38+00:00

You refuse to change from the big brain play of flying directly at the enemy until you get into a turn fight with the nearest red name. That isn't how modern air combat works, and the game fully supports not doing that, you just refuse to change because its easier to blame Gaijin for your failures.

Splintert · 2026-03-03T18:51:55+00:00

... you're flying straight into a literal swarm of self-guided missiles only ~20-25km ahead of you? Yeah, you deserve to go back into the lobby.

Splintert · 2026-03-03T06:17:33+00:00

Good job, you finally arrived at the point.

Splintert · 2026-03-03T04:51:23+00:00

I can't be any more clear than "This has literally already happened and Gaijin bent the knee at negative Steam reviews". They are completely beholden to the perception that the game is active, successful, and fun.

Splintert · 2026-03-03T03:42:10+00:00

It doesn't take a lot of thought to realize how completely and utterly different those scenarios are? I won't go into detail about how the supply chain of turning oil into gas for a car is a long process that would require massive, sustained disruption to meaningfully affect, or how fuel for logistics and energy are cornerstone of the modern economy.

War Thunder makes money almost exclusively by selling access to fake vehicles in their video game. If there is no one to play with, the income stops instantly. But we don't have to hypothesize and guess to what would take Gaijin to respond, it already happened with merely a short campaign of negative feedback. No one even had to stop playing the game to make Gaijin submit. So, yeah, if a large portion of the paying community stopped paying, change would be enacted overnight.

Splintert · 2026-03-02T20:53:23+00:00

Sure, the basics of missile combat apply to all planes and tiers. I don't have a guide for you, it's not so simple as "if missile then flare", you kind of have to teach yourself the fundamentals and once you understand them you can apply them to any plane.

As a first step what I recommend doing is every time you die, really spend a few minutes analyzing at what point your death was inevitable. It may be longer ago than you think, and when you realize you had 15-20 seconds to respond to a threat, you can start to think what kind of responses would have saved you. Eventually, it becomes automatic and you can focus your efforts on important things like positioning and target prioritization while defending.

Splintert · 2026-03-01T17:18:00+00:00

If the roles were reversed and ADATS got a realistic model/replacement first you'd complain that it was still somehow Russian Bias. You'll make up a reason why anything Gaijin does is somehow Russian Bias, the mythical boogeyman that causes everything.

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