We didn’t pretend it balance… Gaijin did.
You point out the MAW as a big problem, but not all planes can have countermeasures controlled by MAWS.
j11b is one of them, you already have a very limited number of countermeasures, and sometimes the maws triggers false alarms when it sees other friendly flares or missiles, losing an already limited number of countermeasures is very complicated for this plane.
The DAS and SPECTRA of the EF and Rafale respectively are already starting to be a little more problematic, because they still select which type of countermeasures to launch.
The DAS ends up being more problematic due to the amount of EF countermeasures (although SPECTRA’s coverage is greater), the Rafale has a very limited number of flares, losing them with false alarm triggers would be fatal, so I don’t see many players using MAW-controlled countermeasures on the Rafale, while EF pilots use and abuse this tool.
In real life the gripen also has maws, if the EF is already difficult to ambush a gymnastics if the gripen had maws like in IRL.
This is true and it will probably be the best radar in the game for some time, until today I never understood why they put the f3 instead of the f2 with PESA.
But it’s a very striking feature of the plane and there’s no way to change it. The Rafale has already received two direct nerfs and one indirect nerf (with the introduction of the C5). It’s still an excellent plane, but the EF is becoming a much better platform for BVR and dogfighting. Continuing to nerf the Rafale directly and indirectly is a dangerous path that would kill France’s main plane (the only plane France will have from now on).
The ideal at this point would be to buff the planes that are performing poorly rather than killing a plane like the Rafale.
You’re comparing planes that are 13.7 with 14.0, not the fairest comparison to make.
It is a fact that the Rafale is superior to the F15E/I and the F18.
But let’s agree that the su 30, EF are also very strong planes and are superior to the f15 and f18.
Not that the F15 and F18 are completely useless, they have their spaces in the game, the F15 E when used well in BVR puts an absurd amount of pressure on the enemy team, and the F18 is a support fighter that carries an absurd amount of missiles, its only flaw is its final speed.
MICA is strong at short and medium ranges, in the bvr it loses to all these missiles
currently after nerf he is not even in the top 5;
this error looks like AI
Once again we start to go down a somewhat dangerous path, which is trying to kill the Rafale completely instead of buffing what is performing poorly.
I don’t think f18 will solve the f18 platform problem, which is speed…
Maybe the f18 should be 13.7 and the 12.7 version would receive missiles with irccm and go to 13.0 and the f18A to 12.7, the f18 is a big balancing problem in 12.3-7.
Lowering the br of C late and increasing the br of C early and A would make the game much healthier.
f15 and f16 with better radars will probably take the next step in the game.
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