This is NOT another russian bias post lol
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The entire game is built around russian bias. Go read the steam reviews. Go look at gaming reviews. Once you get outside this echo chamber of excuses to defend the snail (they aren’t going to give you free GEs for it by the way) your eyes will open.
I am far from a ‘gaijin defender’ but the strange misconception of russian bias should be dropped or adopted solely as a meme, it simply isn’t a valid take anymore lol
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What?
F-16A and F-15A will easily beat Su-27 or MiG-29 in a dogfight with the current flight models. I can pull +50/-50 degrees AoA in the current F-16 flight model which is double that of what it can do in real life.
Ok and?
It’s as good as the Aim-9M and Magic II. It’s pretty easily defeated by pre flaring in a dogfight. There is a reason that MiG-29 and Su-27 have not won any major 1v1 tournaments.
I will bet $50 of GE that if I took F-15A and you took MIG-29A and we went head to head that you would lose the vast majority of the time regardless of whether the scenario started BvR or WvR.
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Flanker can’t even do a 110-120 degree cobra
NATO shouldn’t be punished for soviet incompetance.
In a turn fight the Mig-29 with the current in game modeling and them not decreasing its performance based on loadout weight. Mig-29 and Su-27 will also beat both F16A and F15A in a head to head with R27-ER. Mig-29 and Su-27 also win in off aspect launches in a furball due to the insane g pull and speed of R27-ER. The only reason they struggle is because they are finally up against aircraft with head to head abilities. Before when all aspect R60s have no counter its a seal club and anything with an R60 should be moved up to fight against other all aspect IRs.
Aim-9M is fairly easy to flare off as well. But I never see anyone in a soviet jet running periodic counter measures. On the other hand I watch NATO players start dropping CMs at 50km. I watch the radar closely before I TWS skill check, and find it odd that nearly every of my soviet kills involve almost zero countermeasures.
I would take the AV-8B over both in that fight. Once I get the 2.6 million SLs needed to pilot it. Which funny enough the Migs are cheaper to buy, crew, and repair than Nato planes. And if the game was about “balance” repair cost would be based on BR.
agreed but this is a game and balance is the priority, gaijin can’t allow NATO their full capabilities at a time because it becomes overwhelming for the russian players, china is better off because they actually have a competent air force so they will fair well in the future but russia only goes downhill from here
It’s an end of the line, rank 8 vehicle, of course it will be more expensive than the base Mig-29 or flanker…
They don’t care about NATO being overwhelmed by fictional tank performance… Or by massively OP Helis and SPAA… but when it comes to jets NOW WE CARE???
They do but either don’t want to show it or can’t, at the end of the day they are a hungarian/russian game studio and an amount of nationalism to those respective nations is game is present
Gaijin did not allow adding the R-73 for the MiG-29, but for some reason added the R-27ER, which could be easily countered while flying close to the ground
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They aren’t.
They will not. This has been tested time and time again in the form of TSS tournaments and amongst 2-3 different dueling communities.
Heck, I can show you this just in a custom game that your MiG-29 has no chance against an F-15A or any of the F-16s. It would take 5 minutes.
Aim-9M is harder to defeat from side aspect. It is a meta defining missile in sim because it is invisible.
This isn’t about AV-8B vs F-16.
This is about you writing checks that I know you cannot cash.
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I do wish that the Mig-29 9-12a and 9-13 got their R-73s, being forced to play with you balls and hope the R-60m hits is rather excruciating
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I’m talking about the fact that Russia is also being limited in its weapons.
The developers limit the weapons for each country because they want to extend the life of the game and they add a little new weapons every update
I myself have participated in lengthy testing of the Mig-29 (GDR variant with Best FM) vs F-16A (Netz) (uncapped by the G-limiter) and the Mig’s chance was a roughly 1/10 chance of winning a dogfight against pilots of roughly equal skill while the Netz I was using had the corresponding 90% success rate in both high-speed and low-speed merges.
It is the opposite for russia actually. The Mig-29 was give missiles it never carried. The SU-27 is given the largest loadout in game with the best missile in game. Their are a dozen soviet aircraft carrying missiles MORE ADVANCED than they could. Meanwhile their are a dozen NATO aircraft carrying older missiles than they should be.
Pure russian bias, from a russian company.
I am against the R-27ER on the MiG-29, but the R-73 would have been more effective than the R-27ER if the developers had added them.
One of the developers has a bias towards Sweden, his name is Dmitry
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Russian players didn’t ask for the R-27ER, they asked for the R-73, remember
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Then why is the Gripen, and F16 artificially nerfed in performance and turn rate?
They asked for R73… so they get the even better R27ER… Imagine if NATO asked for the Aim-120A and instead got the Aim-260B…