Good thing we are in a game, where game mechanics can be adjusted to deliver good, fun and mechanically skilled gameplay, instead of being in a real modern air conflict, armed with weapons that were literally made to reduce the skill involved in combat, and instead make the combat mostly about the weapon.
F-16 was perfectly fine with the G limiter, that was not really the point.
The point was that the game actually adjusted the limiter in favor of actual gameplay, because the “realistic” limiter made the flight model (while it was factually really strong regardless) unfun to use.
No one thinks that, but it makes for SIGNIFICANTLY better gameplay in the video game. If you want “realistic” air combat there are alternatives that aren’t trimmed to be “the most comprehensive MMO military game” with vehicles fighting in “competetive battles”.
Thats not the point whatsoever.
If you just permanently notch a guy until he merges with you, youre completely useless for the whole time, that was literally the point. Sure you will farm the Flanker/ MiG-29 easily once they merge, because the M2K basically autowins against them the second you manage to flare 1 R-73, but that doesnt change the fact that beign defensiove for 1-2 minutes until the guy pushes you and merges with you is not a good strategy at all in a 16v16 battle that is decided in the first minute of the game, unless you’re playing in a squad with other decent players, which just allows you to get away with basically doing anything.
Radar missiles were perfectly fine before, you could just actrually intelligently time your missile and hit 90% of players easily. No one in the entire game stayed below 100m agl for the whole match, as its literally impossible to do while you have to defend from 9Ms, evade trees, and the game has random river beds that are 80m deep.
There generally was MUCH more skill involved in effectively using radar guided missiles, while now using them takes basically zero skill at all, and evading them is slightly more difficult than before (if you actually play the game, if you play in the corner of the map like a passive shitter, even evading them is easier).
Yeah, and when EVERYONE including your teammates (you will have the same retards that youre fighting in your team aswell) do that, you end up in a situation where theres 2 people playing the game and the rest flying back and forth between the airfield. Again, unless youre in a squad, but thats always the exception.