I have yet to see the new FMs for the flankers but I doubt they got THAT much better.
The J-10A is lighter and more agile, has better ARHs and a better Radar as well as having on-par IR missiles. It’s PL-12s are better suited for the BVR meta as well.
The J-10A has one engine that produces less thrust than a single Su-27SM engine on an airframe whose empty weight is still above half the weight of Su-27SM’s.
Su-27SM having a higher TWR as well as a higher energy retention brings it with the F-15s.
Now, radar can’t do narrow scan, that’s the one drawback to Su-27SM.
Fair. I’m not going to pretend that I am great at this game. However it has been my favorite and most played game for the past two years. I do feel like pretty much every aircraft I have played in the 8.0-9.3 range performs similarly when I play it (in my opinion, not a statement of fact). Even the with the Draken at 9.7 I don’t find myself upset with the lack of countermeasures at that BR.
The moment that I stopped pretending this game was realistic was the same moment I started to enjoy it significantly more.
Considering I have neither fighter and cannot speak from experience I will leave it here
Can we use different colours, quite hard to tell :D.
Also disagree with premium OP, cause it is after all biased, as premiums have no ‘stock’ period. meaning u don’t actually have to go through periods of say no APFSDS or thermals. This would mean the OP isn’t really what drives it, but stock grind. This applies for both air and ground, for a 10.0 vehicle, ZTZ96A say, I had an underwhelming K/D before I got APFSDS and thermals, but it quickly recovered after that, this however still means the K/D sits way behind my ZTZ96A(P) which I acquired just two days before the ZTZ96A.
Before EFT and Rafale, J-10A was comparable to the Gripen and Blk 10 F-16 in dogfight performance, which were the best in this regard.
I still don’t think Su-27SM after the buff has reached this level yet.
Neither can J10.
But even post buff I still feel like it is a brick in comparison to J10 in higher speeds. This was sort of more from me just doing immediate notch but also in dog fights where the only advantage would be R73s pulling off insane kills.
Some premiums have definitive advantages in air modes though (undertiering, airspawn).
Even pretty respectable and capable content creators call the Ariete (9.0 italian jet) essentially pay to win in ASB.
Really? I did not find it particularly strong in my experience, mostly with F100 just picking on them from 2km above but sure, pretty manoeuvrable jet. I think the most justified bias argument is J7D, which has 4 magic 1s, a radar, usable RWR and great manoeuvrability at 10.7. Loads of CM as well. Obviously what used to be considered as almost an equal, J7E is at 11.3, and its counter is A5C with barely supersonic capability and 2 magic 1s, plus 18CMs.
I do agree some premiums are very strong, probably under BR’d, but so is things Leopards 2A7/STRV122s, Pantsir, F15E previously, probably still FK90 spam, but they just exist, so do certain premiums, although over BR really exist rarely with premiums and do with some techtree ones. Also u have no ‘weak’ or ‘strange’ troll vehicles as premiums in general.
Here’s a video on the Ariete at least.
Opinion:
Bump Air RB max BR to 14.3 and move everything that has ARH up a BR bracket.
There are already enough top tier planes that the matchmaker should be fine.
So the top SARH planes will still see ARH but not literal full top tier every match.
Sorry about yesterday. I was a jerk.
The most simple thing they could try is to change the <=+1 and >=-1 is to just leave <+1 and >-1, that means strictly < or > …
But clearly they don’t want that.
Gaijin mechanic is to enrage and frustrate people so they would pay for premiums etc
Can a dev please justify the br/implementation of the Luchs for me?
I need something laughable to cheer me up.
Seriously tho wtf gaijin? First the luchs, then the pzh, then the typhoon… everything broken or crippled
Luchs at 7.3 seems okay when compared to Type 87 RCV at 7.7
It lacks stabilization but gets better reverse, thermals, more ammo before reloading and a bit of armor.
That’s what happens in rushed updates. PZH received many fixes over a few days.
the 87 is also over-brd but is more mobile.
Also how do both of them seem ok? You are a driving rp pinata. Russia and other nations have far more potent light vehicles at those brs, and you are useless against medium tanks and up as you cannot even disable their barrels
New Russian bias: BMD-4M.
19.6 HP/t on Luchs vs 20.3 HP/t on the Type 87 RCV. Former has much better reverse speed so I’ll have to give the mobility advantage to Luchs.
They are definitely not great but they aren’t trash either.
This simply isn’t true.
its a german vehicle, thats the explanation