Forwarded, I did have that logged internally as “Using Older RWR, should be upgraded to Sky Guardian to better reflect the GR.1B upgrade”. But I’ve forwarded yours as well so there is some player side visibility.
Also forwarded your Lynx report.
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Still havent got the Phimat pod for either Jaguar…
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Jaguar GR.1
Jaguar GR.1A
Harrier GR.3
Harrier GR.7
Tornado F.3
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i stand corrected, havent got the Phimat pod at all. Although why you’d take it over the BOL rails on the Tornado and Harrier GR.7 idk.
was the Phimat pod the one added during dev server but caused crashes and didn’t make it to live and would be fixed…
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Buc? Or is that the Buc S2B. Could have sworn I remember someone mentioning the phimat on a buc at some point (unless I’m imagining something)
that is indeed the same one. they removed it from the aircrafts and never added it back.
Haven’t checked but probably the S.2B, I was just listing aircraft in game that had it.
Ah, fair enough
would be nice if we could have a response from devs about what happened with this pod
Think it’s the same as BOZ pods. They need to code flares and chaff separately but they can’t/won’t.
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Phimat was originally modelled to be a Chaff only dispenser. whether it was originally i dont know, but i presume it was based on your comment
I think it was / is chaff only. (Not sure) before my “time” but I’ve heard it just caused crashes. It’s something I’d anticipate if/when we get CM overhauls.
Think I might make a thread for ASRAAM P3I mostly out of my own curiosity but also because I have no faith in Gaijin modelling the ASRAAM’s lifting body effectively and there are surprisingly few videos of it turning immediately following launch (such as there are for the R-73 and AIM-9X), given its an ASRAAM body and circuitry EF could fire it.
I think it might be an Active Skyflash type missile where it was partially constructed but never actually ordered?
Any thoughts? Perhaps its a pointless endeavour.
Equipping it to a aircraft caused the client to crash. And because it was the last vehicle used, you’d load in and crash your client instantly because for some reason the game executable was allergic to the Phimat pods being equipped on anything. No idea if they ever figured it out, they certainly haven’t added it.
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It was the same with the TIALD pod for a while. The spaghetti code is something all programmers would take one look at and kill themselves over. I think it’s time for a complete rebuild of the game.
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Pretty much spaded my FGR phantom, conclusions are, its still dogshit even in downtiers i’d rather have the flight performance than the SKYFLASH. You have 0 all aspect-capability at all until the very last weapons modification as the 7E’s are pretty awful the least you could get is the E-2. The 9G’s are worthless against anything but the dumbest of F-14’s you spend more time trying to get a lock and then leading the missile than its worth. SKYFLASH is kinda good in a downtier but at 11.3 and above its not really worthwhile. Then there’s the fact that you’re a hardwing Phantom and people can just straight up deny you the IR missile launch by turning lightly. Gun is mounted awfully for headons and its surprisingly unruly.
Overall needs 9L’s instead of the 9G’s as the biggest struggle spading is the goddamn 9D’s which is an utter pisstake as they never even used them, next the flight performance is awful but could be somewhat helped by having the 7E(2) as a tier 2 mod with the 2 extra 9G’s as a tier 1. Either it goes down or it gets the 9L’s and a reworked modification tree because its a pointless aircraft to fly and i’ve found absolutely nothing good about it other than the radar being easier and seemingly tracking better than the Mig-29.
0/10 its about as rough to play as the Hunter F.1 just brickish with nothing particularly going for it.
Unfortunately it appears as though it’s gonna stay that way. Apparently there is “no need” for the new BRs (except for the Gripen ofc because British players are a different species)
Which I personally think is rubbish.
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No it doesn’t look like it should change.
However I think I can understand why the Tornado is not so bad. I absolutely hate the aircraft, however, it does everything the Phantom does, but better and at the same br, more countermeasures, better radar, better missiles, internal gun so none of that drag (plus I never get to use the gun anyway), so maybe its not quite as bad as I imagined.
If I can bring myself to fly it after I grind for the Gripen then maybe i’ll see.
You probably won’t get to use the gun on the F.3 thanks to it being even more of a brick, but at least you get decent missiles and a decent amount of CMs