The Captor-M should at the very least be functional. As of right now it is one of if not the best radar in-game in terms of radar range and should in theory be the best radar in-game if RBE2 remains “unmodeled” in most aspects but it is not currently so it is screwed in that regards.
Many of the Rafale’s buffs were a side-effect of buffs that the Russians really needed and that the French happened to have. ESA technology for example, with the Russians needing a better radar translated to a buffed RBE2. The gate-width missiles needing a buff for the Russians/Chinese translated to the French benefitting as well with the Magic 2 having similar mechanisms. France does benefit from having technologies/mechanisms that are found on both the western countries and eastern countries as of right now. For instance a buff to seeker shut-off mechanism or even implementation of flare rate bias (found on AIM-9M) would also benefit the Magic 2 once it gets those since those are what it uses as well.
Perhaps, I still think the MICA EM buffs though were unncessary, at least without also adding unique seeker performance to everyone else. I do wonder by how much other ARH are underperforming but information hasnt been found to buff them up.
For magic 2 the one that benefits the most of this buff is mirage 4000, otherwise for rafale it’s totally situationnal and i don’t see the point anyway, it’s better to go for full mica loadout.
As far as i get this did not change much for people that tested it.
Given Aim-9M for example still doesnt even gets its IRL lock ranges where Seeker Shutoff would be most useful, its just a tad annoying that R-73 and Magic II got a buff,
I have found that MICA are notably hard to defeat than they were before, though I am also defending with BOL (which is horrifically nerfed at the moment) so that doesnt help eitehr
I think they weren’t but do now say “BOL” in the Tooltip, so im not so sure, and they feel the same as they do in other BOL carriers when defending against an ARH/SARH threat, so Im reasonably confident they are these days
I don’t wish to go off topic, but for now given they still do not seem to want to fully buff the radar for various reasons including information, limitations etc. I think for now CAESAR fixed array might be a good option, given it was tested like Rafale’s MICA’s, HMD etc and really it doesn’t giga buff the plane but just brings the radar up to scratch with a few other nations.
Then again, we don’t have loads of info on CAESAR with which to model it.
Apologies for going off topic here but I mentioned it when we first had the radar issues, and its seemingly only being continuously vindicated as a good option.
In my defence, I didn’t bring it up and prominent members here also entertained the discussion, but I agree, if its going to be discussed further, it needs to move thread.
and we were discussing the state of the Rafale and its current state/performance vs other top tier aircraft and whether some of the buffs it has received were necessary, such as the MICA EM buff.
That cannot be done without mentioning other nations, especially the Rafales direct equal, who is suffering quite a bit at the moment with a number of strange decisions gaijin has made regarding its radar.
Its not like the M2K5F is struggling at top tier with its current setup. Statshark has it at #6 for KDR and KPS out of all Rank 8 jets, above all other nations 14.0 jets.
I have a little bit of top tier experience from the Mirage 2000-5F, but the Rafale while stock is just not fun. Might be the “best jet in the game” but it’s still suffering from stock jet performance and payload nerfs.
