any tips for online play..? finding it more a game of luck than skill so far..

* Make no effort whatsoever to communicate and/or coordinate with your teammates. This allows the wasting of as much ordinance as possibly on a single target that your entire 8-player team is attacking.
* Fly in a straight line as often as possible.
* High-G until you are shot down or shoot down your target. If you stall before this happens, gain a few hundred knots of airspeed and repeat.
* Spam XMA6s at close range; this is Super Effective
* Spam XLAAs at even closer range; this is also Super Effective
* Make no serious attempt to evade QAAMs. Instead, complain about how they're cheap, overpowered, n00bish, etc.
* Ignore SpAAMers. Instead, allow them to kill you and your entire team.
* Do not attempt to lock down the enemy spawn.
* Conversely, if your spawn is locked down, accuse the enemy team of spawncamping.
* Do not attempt to acquire ESM in TB4.
* Do not attempt to stay near/protect your ESM aircraft in TB1.
* Engage NPC aircraft instead of player aircraft whenever possible.
* In SB1, do not blitz the enemy. Instead, have the entire team focus on and completely destroy one target area at a time, including operation-critical units. This allows the targets to respawn and prevents you from actually winning the game.
* In SB1, make no attempt to lock own the enemy spawn and/or intercept them before they get into LASM range of your targets. That would be too intelligent and require coordination.
* Whenever possible, choose air-to-surface weapons for aircraft that aren't the A-10.
* Ensure that you always fly low enough to be FAEB'd.
* If you are losing or unable to land hits on the enemy, they are hacking. This, of course, is one of the most well-known aspects of online gaming.
* If you are being royally pwnd by said hackers, quit.
* Instead of taking down a CFA-44 for massive amounts of points, complain about how it and the EML are cheap, overpowered, ettc.
* Crash to avoid enemy fire.
* Crash to reload your SPWs.
* Crash to reload your MSSLs.
* Fly above the canyon rim in TB5.
* Do not join the team you are asked to join. Preferably, join the opposite one.
* Do not ready up, ever. Especially when asked.
* Despite being repeatedly kicked, continue to join a single room.
* Do not reset your mic when asked to- the static and/or feedback add to the atmosphere.

Quote of the year.

+10 interwebs.

Even given how cOLD this is?

LOLWUT...

Like I read that terrible, horrible, awful sites forums...

One of the greatest AC6 posts I have ever read.

* Download all the Idol M@ster jets.

Using overpriced, overpowered (well, at least some of them) planes to overcome lack of skills or practice isn't what I'd recommend.

This post has been edited by PositronCannon: Jul 23 2008, 05:23 PM

You have to counter noobs in Su-47/F-22 in some way

you are actually forgetting about the ones who love to change the rules at the last second just for using the CFA and turn an organised siege/team battle into an EML party(I REALLY HATE YOU. you know who i'm talking about ).

@ tempest: you PWN.

You do *NOT* need to use Idolmaster planes to counter players in SU-47/F-22's you can do that just as well in any other plane with any scheme, i.e F-16 with any scheme you want!

F-22s aren't anything special, you can beat them with any decent plane. Su-47s are tougher, but you could always get the cheaper (and much cooler ) Yellow Su-33 or Mobius F-22, or just use a default Rafale and high G around anything that moves, if you don't want to get DLC (you shouldn't need to, I just gave an option).

I know there are overpowered planes already among the default ones, but the problem with IM@S is that pretty much all of them plain destroy the default version of the same plane. F-16 only battle? Idol F-16 wins. F-14 only? Idol F-14 wins. Sure, there are exceptions and there's overpowered DLC that isn't IM@S, but they're not so extreme.

Also, I knew my post would spawn some kind of argument like this, but I can't stand seeing something like "spend money to be the best" in a topic with the purpose of helping someone get better online.


lawl at that.

This post has been edited by PositronCannon: Jul 24 2008, 06:27 AM

*Stare at the colored missile trails*

don't forget that one ^^

Only the F-14 plane in Idol that is overpowered
other planes are just increase in mssl and sp, in return lost defence/stability.

I officially would like to vote Tempest for 'President of WIN'.

*shivers*
agree with f-14 in idol being overpowered

Oh, and FAEBs are NOT for A2A combat... don't ever try it, it's not fun, enjoyable, or humorous in ANY way.

When I was playing online, it started and the 1st enemy I saw wa an A-10 and I was thinking "What is he doin'?" Then, suddenly, big explosion, I crash. The 1st time it happen, I laughed, but then it was happen over and over, then it just got annoying. I stayed at high altitude for the rest of the time.

In my experience with F-16 only battles, most people who've downloaded the F-16 IM@S (or just about any other IM@S for that matter) tend to be kinda n00b. They really can't fly them, or any other DLC/stock plane that well. So to that I say:

F-16 only match?: PJ > IdolMaster

But even so, looks and stat changes don't matter too much. My Emmerian Su-33 holds its own against all the DLC. So, I say pilot skill is more important than what you've downloaded.

Its true, if you have skill you can hold your own against DLC's