Its not, Brimstone 1s need to be removed and historically accurate Brimstone 2s added that have 200% greater range thanks to a new motor and ability to be fired off-boresight,
If mmW is still too OP then Brimstone 3s should be added with 0 drift IOG, so the Brimstones can be used as Psuedo GPS guided weapons.
If we have to be limited to SAL. Then we shouldnt also be limited to a 14km range weapon (should be about 20km btw) and have historically accurate weapons on the airframe.
and 2 Aim-9M + 4 AMRAAM is plenty of A2A to run 18x Brimstones if wanted
Do you want me to record them again in live so you can see that nothing has changed?
The performance of the Typhoon is absurd. Stunt planes and non-TVC Sukhois cannot do these maneuvers. The Rafale by comparison loses control at much higher speeds in spite of a design far more conducive to that type of flight.
It’s so absurdly obvious and some people put blinders on to shield their eyes from reality. They want to benefit from this while they can.
Its just that Gaijin cant model unstable airframes correctly. That is literally it. F-16, Rafale, Typhoon, Gripen. Probably many more than im forgetting, all have unstable flight models which gaijin cant model at the moment. So, the models can do wierd things. But the facts do still remain, in various regimes, the model in game cannot match data from the real world and thus is underperforming under certain conditions.
*That being saiid, just because it was never done IRL, for obvious reasons, doesnt necessarily mean the airframe cannot do it, like standing on its tail, its a positive TWR, no reason why it couldnt, at least briefly before loosing control.
Choice A) FnF Brimstone 1s with 14km range
Choice B) SAL Brimstone 2s with 40-60km
Considering the fact that the KH-38s dont have an ariticially limited range, speed or nerfed IOG for the sake of balance, then its unfair to slap the Typhoon with a handicap, ontop of a handicap for “balance” reasons
I’ve seen 18G doing Mach 1.5 with min fuel and no missiles but my plane also saw the ground soon after.
I know the plane got nerfed arguably unrealistically when it comes to it’s thrust / supercruising performance but honestly it doesn’t need it unless you want it to be arcade when pulling AoA at low speed.
It’s not unfair as you need to look at vehicles as a complete units, so focusing only on a single feature isn’t a good idea.
Su-34 has Kh-38s that aren’t artificially limited as the platform itself is quite lacking and it carries only 6 of them.
Brimstones on EFT are artificially limited as the platform itself is superior and it can carry up to 18 of them.
As I said, tradeoffs keep vehicles which are at the same BR balanced. I wouldn’t mind giving Brimstones whatever you want, but that would increase the BR of the carriers by a lot, and unfortunately we don’t have those BR in the game currently.
You’re in echo chamber, no one will use, or is using any missile on such range as you suggested for Brimstone 2, and more important, most of the huge kill streaks on Typhoon are from use of Brimstones on close distances
Brimstones 2s still should be added, they are faster at closer ranges and can be used off boresight, meaning you dont have to fly directly at the target to fire
If nothing else, they are historically accurate weapons.
Its like just giving the Su-34 KH-29s or the Rafale PGMs.
Personally, I think that planes should be different gameplay wise, and movement towards everyone having the same toys for sake of “ideal balance” kills variety and interest in vehicles, both Typhoon and Su-34 are good CAS, but in a really different way
And for this, I agree, their motor upgrade could be really magnificent enough and not game breaking still
But I have some feeling that they will still bleed their speed quite fast, even tho it won’t be a problem in upper mentioned close engagement situations
Even just a doubling of their range (from 14km to about 28km) would allow you to fire using IOG towards a general location with some safety before popping up to lase the target.
But yeah, even just the ability to fire without necessarily having to worry about where the target is in relation to your aircraft would be a huge buff that would balance the fact it has no FnF AGMs
Yeah, but even then, using the map target thing, you could probably fire from further away and then move within 20km to lase a target, still can only engage 1 target at a time, due to SAL, but gives the Typhoon a Pseudo long range FnF ability if nothing else
Ask Gaijin.
If the plane with changes would be 12.7 BR worthy and not 13.0 BR (or more) then I wouldn’t mind that happening.
Base M1 historically could fire M833 and M900 but in game it has M774 for years as it’s better weaponry isn’t needed to perform decently for it’s BR.
Balance > historical accuracy.
I do agree with you.
Plenty of times I see people trying to “balance” their vehicle by picking best features of all contemporaries at the same BR, demanding their vehicle get the direct counterpart for those while totally ignoring all the cons contemporaries have to go through in order to be more powerful in some other areas.
It’s like they are trying to fuse all the best features into a single vehicle, which would somehow be balanced in their eyes.
The claim is that they allow them to be this stable and absurd as a compromise until they can correctly model instability - only to turn around and punish certain airframes. The Typhoon can be incorrectly modeled but the Rafale must follow the laws of physics? Why the discrepancy? Why the double standard?
You scream and shout for things to be fixed when it negatively impacts your favorite airframes but when it benefits you it isn’t an issue?
You cannot conflate the two issues. The equivalent for tanks would be to allow the Abrams series’ to exceed their maximum RPM when going downhill because that is something that turbines can do safely (resulting in much faster top speeds per gear when traveling down hill) but then restricting the T-80 series from doing the same.
Mobility buffs would be like FM buffs on planes, I was talking about weaponry.
Brimstone getting it’s FnF mode, increased range and speed, better IOG and whatnot would make EFT much better at A2G than it is right now, resulting in a boost of it’s overall efficiency.
Giving M900 instead of M774 to M1 would be a massive buff to it’s AT capabilities, thus it’s efficiency would rise.