ATLIS II or Damocles targeting pod ?
31° vertical scan is straight up insane. You can see everything in front of you.
Mirage is limited to 3° vertical, forcing the TWS to only scan at the same altitude at the current target. In term of situational awareness it’s terrible for a TWS system. I constantly have to unlock and relock the TWS to scan the part of the sky I’m interested in on the M2000.
Even the 16° pattern is excellent. Most planes needs very narrow scan limits to reach 15° vertical.
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Clearly not a Damocles, if it is the M02 it could be the Atlis or the pod on the 2000D R1
I dont really bother much with the TWT because your not going to really BVR with MICA. I just use HMD lock 99% of the time.
You’ve maid claim about top speed and radar to nerf them which were all false
Yes and i corrected my erroneous claim about the top speed on the ground and explained I had been provided the wrong number I was told it hadnt been adjusted from the dev and was still ~300kph too fast on the deck)
Ive also thanked the 3 ppl who provided me info the radar gimbals were in fact ±70° and not ±60° like Id heard.
Its called correcting your opinion when reliable new info is provide. You should try it sometime.
Oh, and like the guys who were attacking me earlier pointed out, you know you can see all my comments right? Nothing stopping you from checking that.
It’s the situational awareness that’s important. Knowing where everyone is help making decision on your targets. I get killed a lot by plane that only appears on my RWR.
My main way of playing French and Soviet planes is to get at around 3000-4500 meters, below contrail height, but above the main pack of players, and sending missiles at the enemies below that get in the furball. Having a wide tracking radar that shows you where every potential target is, is huge. It’s really strong.
EDIT : I do have one grievance with the MICA tho, and I hope it will get fixed, it’s the proxifuse distance. I get way too often hits or crits instead of outright killing the plane because the proxi is too sensitive. It detonate at the same distance as the Aim120 with half the TNT. Either Gaijin need to reduce it, or introduce the directional warhead.
Not as useful in RB with the crutch that is the spotting system, but in sim, having such a good TWS is amazing if you intend on flying high and not just having your radar turned off to use terrain masking and ambush attacks.
Its good but it requires a certain playstyle in which its kinda handicapt by the amount of flares even DEFYN said in his video the flares are a issue. But long range BVR is just the current meta we are lucky 90% of the F15E and EFT players dont know how to BVR.
Yeah well good, but if you have no sources, don’t shoot things straight like that if you nothing to back it up
It’s not like you asked if the speed was to high, you said top speed to high it need to be lowered
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We are playing France not the AdA, if you REALLY want to go there then we can delete all experimental planes from the game and all who never entered service, because their nations respective armies never used them
AFAIK Dassault is French and makes by extension, French aircraft
But idk some people here out of nowhere seem to want to make an example out of the Rafale for historical accuracy
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You’re right on the speed thing, that was my mistake, the radar one Im pretty sure
As for the radar:
I clearly stated I wasnt sure of that.
Let’s be real, if the playerbase at large knew how to BVR, not a single missile currently ingame would hit past 20km. But we’re not living in a fantasy la-la-land where everyone knows how to play. In a typical 16v16 Air RB match, half the pilot dies without firing a shot, or at best suicide to get their one kill in a head-on trade.
The only thing important in Air RB is “Can the plane take advantage of the chaos to score kills ?” and Rafale answers this with a resounding “Yes”.
I wish we could have Air RB EC, where multirole plane would be able to bring mixed armament, and where strong radar and strong BVR capabilities would be a good thing to have. The Air RB mode is extremely barebone as it is. But Rafale can still perform in it quite well.
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Tbh, I stopped using my Aim120 past 20km. It almost always misses. I rather fly around the map a bit wait for the events to unfold, then I try to use AIM120 up to 20km. Even there alot ppl manage to avoid it. MICA on the other hand is a guaranteed kill. Something is strange with this missile (or Rafales radar?). Things I do to evade AIm120 won’t work. Ppl also start to complain in game chat about Rafales. Some claiming MICAs are bugged.
I honestly hope that sometime they bring RB EC, because the actual RB is really bad, they’re literally 5min. teamdeathmatch game with no incentive.
And yeah it would be cool to be able to use air to ground ammo for those, because i never played ground RB and would love to use the Omnirole part of the Rafale, even against AI with clear objectivs
the range constantly falls off, its just that 60° is usually considered the furthest where its still remotely usable
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No MICA NG (Next-Generation) air-to-air missile capability
Feature from F4.1, I suppose gaijin call Rafale F4 Late
It might be F4.2 standard and full MICA NG (Next-Generation) air-to-air missile capability
Any news in proper AESA and does anyone have a graphic or full explanation for everything in the raf hud?
I really don’t understand the persons fighting against a lower loadout in missiles when half of the things in game are already not accurate, especially the way we are playing, and they know that, rafale is not even decent to start with, and as always those that hoped one second that gaijin would have better servers to fix mica face the reality, there will be no fix, i’m not joking we have more luck of asking for an aim120 that would be 80% of what the mica em should be minus the high g pull than having the mica fixed with how deep the issue is.
2 more missiles for the f3r which at last news would be ACCURATE enough for the game or just replacing it to an f4.1at least would make it less painful and more confy as even at close range mica succeed to miss a lot, magic 2 is way more reliable in all honesty.
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Can I do it better then a F15E or Typhoon? Rafale answers this with a resounding “No”.