Why are these maps so bad at conveying elevation

[Maxxim☢]

A real military would have these maps color-coded, or at least shaded in a way that tells you what's a mountain and what's a valley. We're attaching lasers and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ railguns to planes, but god forbid the onboard radar uses Google Satellite imaging or something more advanced that better displays the level than 1980s terrain scan lines. Mission 09 is almost unplayable because of this annoying design choice. You can't tell where the ♥♥♥♥ to dive after destroying a radar station and it's absolutely retarded. If you try to flip around and go back the way you came, it's too slow and you get hit by the missiles that travel at ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ light speed because the devs don't want you to have fun trying to dodge them. If you try to pass over completely you end up in some weird elevated pit that either makes you crash or doesn't protect you from the missiles. The non-dogfight missions in this game are such a chore.

[Bushi Mac]

Sounds like a pure skill issue.

[Rastrelly]

Originally posted by Maxxim☢:

A real military would have these maps color-coded, or at least shaded in a way that tells you what's a mountain and what's a valley. We're attaching lasers and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ railguns to planes, but god forbid the onboard radar uses Google Satellite imaging or something more advanced that better displays the level than 1980s terrain scan lines. Mission 09 is almost unplayable because of this annoying design choice. You can't tell where the ♥♥♥♥ to dive after destroying a radar station and it's absolutely retarded. If you try to flip around and go back the way you came, it's too slow and you get hit by the missiles that travel at ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ light speed because the devs don't want you to have fun trying to dodge them. If you try to pass over completely you end up in some weird elevated pit that either makes you crash or doesn't protect you from the missiles. The non-dogfight missions in this game are such a chore.

"Where to dive" depends entirely on cloud coverage which is observed by eyes and has nothing to do with the map.

[Ballistic Drop]

Having a tough time figuring out what exactly you are complaining about.

Are you asking for better visibility through the clouds in a mountain map? I mean, they are clouds: meant for and used as cover and concealment in an air engagement.

You pop up, blast the target and duck back under the clouds before the fire back. Its really not that hard and this mission is actually a fun one to FEAB.

[Vimini]

Ignore all the skill issue comments OP your complaint here is valid as the game literally tells you to use the graphs given to help navigate around the mountains and there are specifically one or two locations where if you pop up and over then destroy the radar stations there is not enough time to get back down to a cloud if you are in a regular aircraft and I assume that OP is saying if he had a better map it wouldnt be have been a problem in the first place

[dragontrainerdrago202]

Originally posted by Vimini:

Ignore all the skill issue comments OP your complaint here is valid as the game literally tells you to use the graphs given to help navigate around the mountains and there are specifically one or two locations where if you pop up and over then destroy the radar stations there is not enough time to get back down to a cloud if you are in a regular aircraft and I assume that OP is saying if he had a better map it wouldnt be have been a problem in the first place

just gotta be fast, try different aircraft or maybe adjust the path you take.

[Naruto 607]

Originally posted by Ballistic Drop:

You pop up, blast the target and duck back under the clouds before the fire back. Its really not that hard and this mission is actually a fun one to FEAB.

Not exactly if you plan to bomb using FAEB from ADF-01 or S/MTD (provided that we don't know if OP owned the DLCs or not) as sometimes, the time frame between getting hit by a missile and trying to duck into the clouds or to the foothill is very small.

Best way is to use LACM or LAGM; pop up when it's in range, shoot one, and dive down. Ez.

[omgitsbees]

skill issue