If they want everything to be realistic, then let it all be realistic. The T-90M stops top-tier rounds with its additional protection… That’s absurd. Meanwhile, we (fans of European vehicles) get, at best, a kick in the rear. It’s true, isn’t it? They finally added decent aviation. I’m glad the Eurofighter is one of the best planes in air battles, alongside the Rafale. But ground pounding with the Eurofighter is just sad. Aiming with a laser while dodging a swarm of Pantsir S1s from below and Su-30s and Su-34s from above is a bit too much.
They worked though, even with IIR, stuff like BOL and spectral flares work
If nothing else, the speed and HOBS advantage of the missile would give a bit more flexibity and require less time to loiter and could also be fired from far greater ranges on IOG, allowing more time to reposition before using the laser. Especially with the upcoming IRIS-T SLS, trying to lase one of those will be a death sentence given the usual requirement to enter about 10km before firing the Brimstone 1
Or just standard smokes. Would make more sense then
Gameplay>realism. It is a game fundamentally, but where realism isn’t available, I do think they should provide an explanation, which they are relatively good for. It’s just interesting that they provided an explanation about Brimstone, but the other unnamed dominating IR guided ATGM that’s not French has been radio silent. I think addressing that might provide some higher sense of balance. As well as adding better SAM’s.
The biggest one is BOL and the fact its artifically nerfed to less than 1/4 its IRL strength. So apparently that is fine for the aircraft like the Typhoon to have a fake modeled CM but the Brimstone being even slightly different to IRL is unacceptable
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what? i have no clue who your talking about, do you think i have any actual influence at gaijin or know anyone who dose? lmao i wish man.
Then it would be logical and convenient if all missiles were guided exclusively by laser. That way, there would be no arguments or imbalance in the game.
AFAIK spectral flares don’t actually work against IIR at least from what I understand but I don’t know enough? My understanding was that IIR almost takes a picture so if you don’t match the shape then the missile won’t decoy. Because they aren’t in the right shape and aren’t paired to the UV+IR signature of the target (though I do know they’re optimised).
BOL is kinda like spectral but also creates a huge cloud behind the aircraft so the missile then wouldn’t be able to reacquire the target unless it had some sort of built-in IR scanning pattern incase it loses lock.
Also yeah… they worked someone will find a solution, just over 20 years ago it was UV+IR flares, before that it was high IR signatures and before that it was having flares full stop.
So what you’re saying is the F-14 not being able to flare IR missiles for 3 years at this point is not because it’s hotter than other planes with the same engines, but because it has more thrust? So planes like the F-14 that have insane amounts of thrust compared to everything else are just screwed? Single engine planes are easier to flare missiles with (even though that’s not how heat works)?
Sorry for the disruption. I was researching for an engine heat bugreport for the F-14… not anymore.
Current Rafale ingame is borderline the newest model they could get, they just havent given it the proper name (sorta, iirc @WreckingAres283 mentionned its more of an indian Rafale than a F4.1 Rafale, but theyre pretty close from my understanding).
The only thing the Rafale can really gwt (unless new mechanics are added) are better missiles afaik.
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Who is saying Gajin
We were talking about bug reports
i guess its hard to follow when you can’t even calculate thrust right
Yeah, it would be.
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i have had absolutely nothing to do with any bug reports
Do you know if BOL can carry spectral flares? In the same quantity too?
BOL doesnt really have “flares”
it has these:
Which create a huge cloud that physically hides the aircraft from the LoS of the seeker
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Interesting. Hopefully this gets added soon.
Yep, with IRIS-T coming next major, its needed mroe than ever. But even just restoring BOL to what they were like pre-Gripen would be awesome. They litereally drop 1/4 the amount of chaff for example than they should
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By “later Rafale with better missiles” I mainly meant a separate plane in WT at a higher BR.
Sure, the aircraft itself won’t be a ton better than what we currently have, if at all.