So, a bit after that game, we were discussing the server's upcoming shift to allow modern weapons. And I was like "that's good" because I'm more familiar with active radar missiles and BVR timelines than heatseekers (and we don't get semi-actives in the Viper anyway).
I then had the thought of "aw, man, what if we come up against Eagles, though, that's going to be a pain in the arse". The Eagle radar is much better than the Viper's. My buddy was like "ah, we don't have to worry about that, because nobody plays the Eagle, because the implementation isn't very good".
Anyway, we both just got killed by an Eagle 😆.
We'll have to wait for the Tacview to become available, but we're both very keen to see it. At the time my buddy fired on him, the missile should have had so much energy as to be nearly impossible to defeat, but somehow the Eagle did and launched on us.
Apparently there is an illicit move you can do that defeats missiles, which would not work IRL, which will get you banned for using it. We'll have to see from the telemetry!
At any rate, I don't mind a loss when I can find out what went wrong and can learn from it. Tacview's such a good tool for that, otherwise it's just "oh, I exploded and have no idea why".
#DCS #F16