Fingers crossed the fixes start rolling again this week or next. ,They should be back from holiday soon.
and yeah, AESA, + 8x MICA is a rather insane combo. Only hope in the Typhoon is to stay at range
Orthadox Christmas is January 7th. So I doubt we’ll see much happening before W/C 13th Jan.
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AESA (which btw, the french players all seem to be complaining about despite being one of if not the best radars ingame), 8x MICA, full coverage MAWS and RWR, large caliber countermeasures, HMD IFF (only fighter ingame to have it despite being bug reported for others), fantastic gun, fantastic FM, built in targeting cam.
The only thing it doesnt do well is kill bases, and the french players are still whining its not good enough for them. I cant think of a better air to air jet in sim right now. If you’re only doing air to air, theres effectively nothing its bad to a point it can be counted as a “weakness”.
“Well it cant BVR very well cuz of the MICA’s gimped range” doesnt matter cuz it can just sit near a notch and let you waste missiles until you’re in range for a garanteed kill MICA shot, or until you run out of ordinance and have to RTB, at which point itll chase you down and kill you.
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I knew it extended a bit into jan, but forgot it was that far, so yeah, week afte rnext fingers crossed
Besides the missing full 140° scan mode and 1-2 other minor issues with it, RBE2-AA is def the best Airborne Radar in-game atm and makes a lot of fun. Personally can’t wait for EFT (and other) with AESA.
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Yeah, and even then, 6x AASM fired at a base using CCRP from moderate range is not a half bad way of generating some passive income in Sim as well.
I really need to dust off my Mirage F1C-200 and contine grinding the French tree. With the current state of the Typhoon, having an alternative might be nice
I really hope we arent waiting years for CAPTOR-E on the Typhoon
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Realistically, i sorta hope we do have to wait a bit, this insane powercreep does not bode well for the game imo. They skipped effectively every Rafale model to add what is basicly just a renamed F4.1, so france doesnt really have anything else to add but a rafale with meteor. The only thing left “missing” from the EFT’s is CAPTOR-E, improved missiles, and potentially the AMK kit. Most future US additions were made largely obsolete by the F-15E, barring the F-15EX/F-22/F-35, China has some fleshing out it can get, Japan only has 1-3 more jets to add, Sweden only has 1-2, Russia has a lot of other flankers, but like the Su-33, its likely theyll continue to disapoint, etc…
All the top jets of the last 2 patches were too early to the game, and the only stuff left to add is stuff thats much too high performance for it to even make sense ingame. Why add meteor with a NEZ the size of the largest air maps ingame, owhy add new munitions when the current ones already outrange any AA systems the ground forces players could get barring strategic level GBAD like Patriot and S-300, etc…
Ive said this a billion times at this point, but gameplay is supposed to lead implementations, not the other way around, and its not even being done the other way around realistically, as gaijin is adding gamebreaking thing after gamebreaking thing and NOT adjusting the game for them, just hoping the complaints die off.
If gaijin continues to treat the game as they have for the last year, WT could legitimately die within the next year or 2 at most. They have almost nothing left to add to “draw in” more players, and theyve been adding entire techtrees of copy pastes instead of adding unique indigenous vehicles (BeNeLux for example). As for gameplay, we havent gotten a new sim map in 2-3 years now, and the GFRB maps keep getting shrunk and dumbed down for the pre-teen premium playerbase. With the recent cost of new premiums, I wouldnt be suprised if gaijin already knows the games death is emminent and is just squeezing the community for all thats left before they jump ship.
The CAPTOR-E is not needed. With the current map sizes and mission sets we have in-game, a properly modelled CAPTOR-M is more than enough. CAPTOR-E would just be miserable to fight against, not that we have anything on CAPTOR-E beyond its gimbal limits and scan speed iirc.
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I thought AESA couldn’t do above 120 degrees without a device like CAPTOR-E angling thing
The AoA and G constraints are two different constraints.
Nah I think they will push the US and Flankers the Su-30SM will be the best jet in the game by some margin.
garbage take, we got upgraded F-15C, F/A-18C+ w/ AN/APG-79v4, F/A-18E/F block 1, 2 and 3, F-16C PoBIT, F-16V, F-15SA, SG, QA, K, F-16E, F-15E post RMP and EPAWSS, 2022 AV-8B+, YF-22, YF-23, as well as 2 F-22 variants, maybe 3 soon, as well as 6 F-35’s, and the 1 F-15EX
as for missiles, we have AIM-120C-5, C-7, D, D-3, AIM-9M-8/9/10, AIM-9R, AIM-9X block 1 and 2, AIM-260, Peregrine
for a2g weapons we have HARM and all its variants, harpoons, SLAM and SLAM-ER, JSOW, JASSM, JASSM-ER, LJDAM, GBU-53, laser GBU-39, AGM-179, JASSM-XR soon, SiAW
The statement itself is pointless, what does “obsolete” even mean? Any variety added to the tech tree whether it comes as a top tier aircraft or not is welcome in my book. I’d still very much like to go slap around some lower tier planes in my F-18A with AIM-7P and AIM-9L.
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im guessing he means additions that would push top tier forwards, which we have a lot of
Radars are the only real upgrade here the F-16s are heavier and slower, the F-15C is already at it’s peak in terms of flight performance. equivalent to the F-15L
Micas made me stop playing the EF. Its hopeless. So outclassed. Stuck with inferor and bugged radar and aim120. Unfortnately playing range doesn’t work that well in AirRB. sooner or later its all about close to midrange standoffs and Mica…oh dear Mica’s are just undefeatable with that potent radar. Wounder why Gajin added this Rafale thing. Air modes were not ready for it.
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there is no F-15L
an upgraded C would get better missiles + CFT double amraams + APG-63v3 AESA radar + BOL pods
the PoBIT might even be lighter as it gets much more advanced electronics
the F-16E gets the GE-132 engines, much more powerful
I meant the Israeli version
Wrong again, the F-15C is equal to Baz Meshupar, F-15E is the counterpart to F-15I
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Iirc the F-16’s upgraded with the F110-GE-129 have access to an expanded thrust mode that would considerably improve performance over the block 52 at cost of fuel consumption so the added weight isn’t a concern
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