Regarding BOL: Is this thread “shadow locked” or am I the only one who can’t reply on this thread?
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Dev server threads get closed post-dev server
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Ah, didn’t see it was a dev-server thread. My bad.
But nothing changed regarding BOL or did it? Is there a general thread/poll about this in the regular forum?
You might be using the wrong units for the Britecloud dimensions
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Ahaha yes I mean 55mm thank you.
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Absolutely no change as of yet and all my attempts to get some official comment about it has yet to be answered.
Especially with this quote in mind, the current situation is deeply frustrating
and no, kinda no point, 843 votes on a dev forum post is about as good as it gets for community interest in this being resolved in at least some form
Fix the EF radar.
Its not fit for purpose. This is ment to be a 4.5 gen jet.
Why does the radar track missiles over targets every time in every game?
7 months of EF and personally iv had enough of cope…
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Hopefully we can get AESA sooner rather than later. Maybe by the time they re-add the CAPTOR-M via the Typhoon F2 it will be functional
But yeah, between BOL, radar issues and general neglect. Ive not really played it in months eitehr
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Depends if it’s retrofit or P4E standard so for new builds onwards.
In which case they’d have to stop buying incredible planes like F-35 that can’t use European weapons and have no standoff armament and are primarily subsonic and do something stupid like buy a European, proven, high performance, super cruise capable, high payload, adaptable airframe as a new build that comes by default with a variety of systems and weapons options not promised for 10 years from now ;)
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Well…
I think we are going to be stuck with a total work of fiction CM loadout for a while:
yeah we’re never getting accurate bol
You expect that devs will simply give you an AESA radar on the existing typhoon and not get you to grind an entirely new aircraft for it ?
It would not be the first time they’d do that either. Mirage 2000-5F was originally just that, and only got more missiles after a report made after its introduction.
Yes? They did not make the French grind an entirely seperate Rafale to get AESA and the number of available upgrades to justify an entirely seperate Typhoon is very small.
Though they could add a new Typhoon with AMK, extra CMs, etc etc alongside the AESA, but that would still be sooner rather than later.
The more logical course of action at this time would be to add a new Typhoon for CAPTOR-M at a lower BR and not a new Typhoon for CAPTOR-E.
Rafale is in a different situation as it was already implemented with AESA from the beginning (for some reason).
I can’t think of any planes that got their radar changed retroactively, but I might be wrong. However, I saw an example of the opposite, where you’d have to grind for an entirely new aircraft to get an all aspect TWS with the mirage 2000-5F, which during introduction was identical to the C-S5 in every aspect but its skin and radar.
I suspect the devs will pull the same move for other planes to « give » them AESA radars as well.
Not saying that’s what I’d want.
Otherwise what could be an interesting addition would be to have AESA be a modification you can unlock, that could be an interesting way to introduce them to in game airframes
“BOL is modelled based on developer assumptions” is not a good look. There’s plenty of available information saying it’s better than in game, and almost none which would even suggest that it’s weaker than a standard countermeasure beyond “it’s smaller”, which isn’t exactly the extent of available info.
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Tornado F3 got a MASSIVE radar buff 3 months after its introduction. Went from the earliest possible foxhunter variant to the latest (bar the DL needed for AMRAAM)
The Mirage C-S5 to Mirage 5F though also included MICA EMs. A rather notable change for aircraft and resulting in a large BR increase. It was a pre-emptive addition for the purpose of easy Fox-3 introduction. Like the AV-8B+, Gripen C, J-8F, etc etc.
And so is a different situation.
You could argue that the new Typhoon could come with ASRAAM/IRIS-T and Meteors alongside the AESA, but Id still expect said new AESA to come sooner rather than later. So an entirely new airframe, that is 100% identical bar a different radar hasnt yet been done. Though could come before those additions I suppose based upon the Mirage 2K
Possibly this could work, but it would still likely be on the current airframes
a lot of the strike aircraft get the placeholder f-5 radar that later gets changed to their actual radar (example is buccaneer, one harrier variant that i forgot and the aardvark)
Yep. It shows a clear and total failure to be able to actually research anything internally and the moment the counter-reports were submitted (including by a senior tech mod… ) they should have been reverted the same week or not even made it to live in the first place.
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Issue: This is a gigantic capability jump and wouldn’t really be fit as a modification without a BR change. AESA aside that’s a ±100 degree scan region.
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Buc never did. It got the right radar, just took a year to go from the S2B to the S2 and S1.
It was the Sea Harrier FRS1 that had the F-5 radar for 9 months
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