MAF1247

The red campaigns of early cold war are actually pretty fun and still balanced, because missiles were not still the main weapons and pilots still relied on gun machine dogfighting. I played Korea war mod with the Mig 15 and i never felt in disadvantage compared to USAF's sabres. Actually, some times it was easier, because at the time the Mig 15 was the better aircraft. Red campaigns are fun from the 1950s to last 1960s, then when the focus of the combat pass from guns to missiles, it becomes more and more frustrating, until modern campaign in the 1980s-2000s where fighting against NATO airforces is a nightmare.

Yeah, i hate when to make the game "challenging" the devs programs the AI to focus almost exclusively to shoot down the player, sometimes exposing themselves to be shot down themelves by my wingmen because they left their side uncovered. But it's extremely frustrating because in real life, during aerial war there is no focus on a "single aircraft", unless this carry a nuclear bomb to drop. I saw this problem also on IL2 Battle of Stalingrad where basically you are the "main villain" of the entire enemy airforce, because they are capable to catching you even when you are miles away from them. In the community they called them the Stalker Fighters because no matter what you do, they will risk even to run out of fuel or being shot down behind enemy lines only because they are programmed to destroy YOU and only YOU. For years people complained, but 1C never listened. On strike fighters 2 the AI is actually less aggressive, but still frustrating. In the end i think that when you play with red side on SF2 you need to change completely the way you approach the air warfare, otherwise you get always shot down. The problem is how to do it?

This is actually realistic. WarPac tech has always been inferior to NATO, with minor exceptions. Problem is that from a gameplay perspective the enemy AI always focus on you instead of the bigger picture, so you find yourself with an inferior aircraft against 4-5 enemy superior fighters. Nobody could survive that. The western SAM in the game it's also much more lethal then red side.

Ok, i changed it. But i change the difficulty of the campaign it can influence this data?

I usually do single mission to train myself before campaigns. In single mission however you can reduce the amount of enemy aircraft and decide the positioning, by using the wrench icon down to the right and then edit the mission. I don't want completely blame TK, because in vanilla Strike Fighters 2 you cannot play as Red side in campaigns nor piloting red aircrafts, so the game is not naturally balanced. However, whoever made the mods were you can play as Russian air force, has forgot to nerf the blue side. Even if it's not "accurate", because in reality NATO will completely obliterate VVS due to their long range missiles, from a gameplay perspective is frustrating, especially if you play by starting on the ground.

Hello! I decided to play some "red side" campaigns (Soviets/Russian). But i found out quickly that the difficulty is extremely higher compared to NATO/US. Ofc i understand that Russian have a tech disadvantage compared to NATO, but still it's incredibly frustrating and i get shot down even at the lowest difficulty like nothing. Sometimes i cannot even reach the enemy on my radar and i get hit by a long range missile. Moreover in Russian campaigns i always get intercepted by like 3/4 SAMs at the same time, compared to NATO were is more difficult to be intercepted by AA. For reference i tried the red side campaigns of NATO FIGHTERS 5 and Black Sea Crisis. Considering that i probably have to completely change tactics compared to when i play with "blue" forces, can someone give me some tips or guidance on how to proper play Red side without being destroyed every time? Otherwise it becomes more frustrating than fun. Thank you

Thank you very much! I play NF5 and i had to create the speech folder to import the dialogues. Just a little suggestion: maybe add this little instruction on your mod page, otherwise i think other people will miss like me.

Hello! The mod for me does not work. I put the folders inside my modded one, i check the nation.ini and the Speech File corresponds to the same name of the ones i put in the Sounds folder. But when i tried different airforces (Italian, Egyptian and vietnamese) they still speak english. What did i miss?