I was thinking back to my time in the jet, where I got my online name from, there I was known as "aerial unit 6", although they actually called me "air six" on the radio, and sometimes my co-pilot would yell "6" at me for random reasons that usually had something to do with not dying. Anyways I was playing hawx 2 and it was lacking something....range. I was in a modern jet, and ever since WW2 the purpose of computers has been to extend the range on those things. There is nothing to hide behind in the sky, except for mountains, which is the 'helicopter' advantage in the day of the missile, since it can cover behind terrain and even large structures more effectively than a jet, and also deploy similar munitions, but with a bit lower top speed making them better on defense.

Anyways, this one time I fought around 8 other jets in one flight, most of the time I'd just cruise NOE (near the ground) a little above the mountain spikes (they go up and down), and sometimes I'd "pop up" a little to get a further view ahead. The curvature of the earth is the most common thing to hide behind, and when a jet 'pops up' from behind the curve/sea/land on the horizon (with the distant mountains affecting it) it's kind of noticable to the naked eye, and radar picks those up pretty good. Depending on height this may be at a random range, it';s around 9 miles to horizon from the surface, but go up a few miles and suddenly it's 52 miles to the horizon. Modern missiles have a range of the earth and beyond, and I think we recently fired a missile at mars and it hit, although it contained an RC car with a camera instead of a warhead, and was a large expensive nuclear missile at one point. Those missiles are expensive, and many missiles have less range and different computer software steering the weapons. My plane was equipped with a radar jammer that broke all known missiles and radar, and a cannon with a lot of bullets. I also had a handfull of missiles in the wings, and could disable the jammer to fire missiles at any visible range (at flyable altitude, note that the engines go out with no air at too high, around 85k (actually more like 115k) feet, and stupid jets (also mine) have no way to relight the engine if it goes out except for the co-pilot opening the canopy, climbing over to the engines, and sticking a small electric torch in them while I jiggle the throttle, then climbing back in and complaining that I'm descending in the wrong direction, at which point I lied and blamed it on stall recovery. Also this one time HH told me about the heli-spin launch on a stuntplane, that's where you get a bi-plane that's light, non-armored, big wings and a big engine with lots of HP and jet fuel. You also have to have lockspring wheels, or electric lockspring wheels, which is where you have a spring on your front wheels that compresses and locks, then the pilot starts the engine, unlocks the spring to push the front end up, and presses the "hammer" into the full forward direction. He called it that because his army copter had a replacement hammer on the throttle with some duct tape, which he thought was efficient with the parts shortage and speed requirements, and had only good things to say about army mechanics and the vehicles not breaking when not struck by fire, and often when.

Also the hawx 2 jets seem a bit slow, most jets go around mach 1, and are a bit slower in the lower altitiudes with a big jump around 5k feet (also paratroops hit that thick air there, jets can cruise around it....been a while, might be closer to 10k feet or slightly variable), and I did not use the rudder, only rolling and up/down, due to the rudder getting the nickname 'stall pedals' due to them making the plane fall towards the ground while spinning in most situations where I was also using the other controls....basically everything but lining up a landing for the most part, fucking useless pedals. My good jet didn't have one of those. For turning, it was kind of 'jiggly' and had momentum, I'd push the stick to the right and it would start to roll to the right....and it was heavy, and the air wasn't totally smooth, so it would kind of accelerate to the right and then if I pulled the stick back to neutral position the jet would kind of keep rolling a bit as the momentum wore off until it straightened out, I could compensate by bringing the stick too far back to straighten out faster, and it kind of bobbed around in the air, and it always felt like it wanted to pull towards the ground, being 100% heavy solid metal, like a big gnarly hard car. The thrust pushed hard in the back, way more than a car with the pedal down, around 8gs isn't that hard to get with those things. I had to keep the nose up, and it was kind of a constant effort to keep enough air going under the wings to push the heavy vehicle up against gravity. Rolling to the side made the solid air fall out from under it, making it fall sideways at full rock falling speed until straightened, and it liked to roll around heavily with torque from the engines and metals and whatnot....although at higher speeds the air was a bit more solid, and it would carve and glide through the air a bit, while still being a heavy beast of a vehicle with its fuel, weapons, armor, and structure. To turn I'd usually roll towards a 45 in the direction, and it would want to drop out from under me, the feeling is a big part of it, falling is in there too, easy to fall off teh air! So I wouldn't usually go full 90 and free fall unless I was (rarely) really high up, at 45 it would drop hard so when I pulled up the nose it would stay up a bit and also turn good without dropping too hard, adjusting that 45 to make it turn faster or drop less. That thing could stand up on its engine too, like a rocket, took about 3 minutes to hit the ceiling, 2 to get back to the floor, at around 1100 mph on the way down, 400 mph on the way up, doesn't fly at all under 200mph, not so good under 500, although that one had little wings for its size making it harder and a bit faster, more at the top. Mostly went straight a little under mach 1 (speed of sound), at 745ish. Terrain was all natural, cities aren't too visible since they typically contain a ton of foliage and plants in most areas, although there was a lot of not-city too. Sometimes I'd zip over a dense urban area, but for the most part it was trees, rivers, oceans, and natural unbuilt terrain, or at least the buildings were small compared to the natural stuff and hard to spot, especially goin 700mph and keeping an eye on the horizon ahead.

I worked on a military flight sim recently. The current jets all have over-the-horizon fire-and-forget capabilities. Modern dogfights are very boring.

Anyway, you didn't actually describe your "better version of HAWX 2"...

You aren't actually capable of reading or comprehending what I write due to...learnt stupidity?

Or perhaps you are just trying to provoke me by calling me a troll, since apparently your post contains no content that isn't a personal attack....although a lot of people hate me and lie, including the people with guns. That being said, you all are trained to reject things that aren't bullshat properly, and I refuse to do that, so if you can't read my posts the problem is on your end and kindly stfu.

although a lot of people hate me and lie, including the people with guns

This should be a t-shirt slogan.