IR missiles and aircraft speed

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After playing the game I have two suggestions regarding aircraft acceleration and IR missile kill probability:

1) I noticed that aircraft accelerate very fast from one speed regime to another, I think you should tweak the acceleration times, it's unrealistic that a plane is going from Mach 1(military speed) to max AF speed in a matter of seconds.

2) I don't know exactly whats the kill probability of the IR missiles but until now I was unable to get a clean kill with AIM9X for example, the target plane is just going to full AF and always is out-running the missile.

I get much better results using the AMRAAM even at short range, from what I know the current generation of IR missiles are nearly imposible to defeat from close range, so it's either a problem with the planes accelerating to fast or with the kill probability of the IR missiles.

Please have a look at how you can balance this aspect better in the game.

Thankx.

 

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I know that some acceleration times are public, I don't know if you have implemented specific acc times from each airplane in particular but even so, they accelerate to fast and this is rendering the IR missiles(which normally don't fly as fast as medium range missiles) kind of useless.

 

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You are probably right. Acceleration is part of the specification of the unit in the database, so this is something we can fix easily.

Now where's my list of fighter aircraft acceleration specs

 

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You can have a look here

http://www.mirage-jet.com/COMPAR_1/compar_1.htm

I don't think its 100% accurate but you can make an idea, there is says it takes a full 2 - 3 min for an F-16, F-18 & Miraje 2000 to acc from Mach 0.9(military) -> Mach 2.0(of course being a french web site their plane is always better than the american ones ... )

 

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I has a quick look and acceleration figures are mostly secret for all fighters, you will need to make some educated assumptions in order to get some figures up & running

 

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Awesome! Thanks.