Right, it has 14 vertical bars of scanning I think in the current live version of it. It takes a while to do a full sweep (IIRC full period is 7 seconds), but it’s still excellent at keeping track once it sees a plane. And this is the only plane with a 31° sweep at the moment which is itself an advantage. Grinding with the Mirage yesterday I was going crazy at the 3° vertical angle of the TWS since it’s so easy to sneak under it.
I think the 70x16° right now is the best pattern outside of the early game with Rafale. I’ve yet to play it in Sim tho ! My opinion might change after that.
Not entirely thrilled about the countermeasure change. Large caliber was preferable over what we ended up with. As well as not outside the realms of reality given the particular system and its function, from my brief reading. Could have at least given us a modification to choose.
Unlikely to change, initial opinion for sim seems to be that its cracked. I might even go so far as to say its likely the best air to air plane in sim period, tho I do not have the plane and have yet to play sim against it, just conjecture from what ive heard from others and what the plane has as tools.
The only real problem i could see in sim at this point is that its rather poor at objective gameplay in a multirole capacity.
The issues with the low flare count and only 6 micas have both been resolved as well which were the literal only “problems” id heard raised about it, and even then they were considered minor due to how good the MICA is and how dominant the Rafale as a package is in WVR.
From what ive seen on reddit vast majority of people are happy with 8 micas and its not like gaijin made up 8 missile loadout so its not inaccurate and theres still an option to take 6 micas
I last looked at that a day ago, so I will have to update my data later. The 8 MICAs are entirely fake, unless the Rafale in game cannot fire the missiles and is missing a vast portion of its avionics it does not represent any Rafale to ever exist, so is thus fake.
Afaik the pylons used by the SP3 that was only used in service on F4 worked since the F3R anyway. So regarding avionics and elecctronics 8 MICA on an F3R is not false. It’s only false in the regard of what has been put into service and what hasn’t.
The plane they built missed significant amounts of avionics and was not combat capable, thus it does not represent the Rafale in game which is combat capable.
If they changed the name to F.4.1, changed up the IRST and added the AASM 1000 it would be a real thing
In any way. How can people be so dramatic about 2 pylons that are semi-historical when paper vehicles exists in game or some still under testing protos like 2S38 are in game.