Bars for comparison:
surely its normal for a radar with more than double the average output and almost 5 times the peak power to have the same ranges
only thing that changed (for range) is that you can set the max scope scale to 400km instead of 200km
It will go off after a moment
i feel like they weren’t planning to add su30sm2 in this update and they just added it at the last second cus of su30mkm and copy pasted bars radar into the sm2 with increased azimuth/vertical coverage.
What on earth is a non AESA Typhoon supposed to do in this meta?
It’s radar is so terrible. The enemy missiles are already halfway towards you before you have even spotted the first guy on radar making BVR practically impossible unless you play against clueless US mains.
In the dogfight you have to rely on the AIM120B’s which are so far worse than the R77-1 and MICA that it isnt even funny. On top of that there is the AIM9M which is basically useless compared to R73 and Magic 2.
At this moment in time. Not a huge amount. In the future, hopefully following a decompression and likely the introduction of new AAMs for the AESA-Phoon, the M-Scan- Phoon will sit at a nice point below the new top tier where it will provide different gameplay. Kinda like F3 to F3 Late, Gripen A to Gripen C to Gripen E, etc etc.
The current compression though just isnt good for it.
As for the dogfight, same thing we’ve had to deal with for the past year, but with buggier AAMs
Dude trying to get the radar I should have had from the get go, in this meta, is actually doing my head in. I am already terrible at this game with maybe 1 kill per game, but this is just another level.
It was supposed to be a good jet, the typhoon, but it just isnt. The only thing it has is flight performance and the rest is useless
Unfortunately… yeah… Every aspect of it is hamstrung, but that hasnt changed since day 1 of the dev server
I’ve just been flying straight at other people up high and shooting down their missiles with my missiles before sending an AIM-120 at them near point blank head-on. Seems to work quite well.
I’m thinking of loading only C5s going BVR and just pray that I find AFK players. I’m not going to bother with WVR fights I dont think. I’ll just straight up die anyway
I exclusively run C5s, but Im a more defensive player that avoids WVR where possible
I’m more of a “what am I even doing, I literally cannot do anything at this BR” kind of player
Just a matter of finding what works for you
It exists to be food for the Su-30SM2, AESA EFTs and Rafale(s).
Same as pretty much every other 14.0-14.3 plane currently in game (besides maybe the Gripen E).
I didn’t have huge issues with the non-AESA typhoon.
If anything, the AESA typhoon is hilariously strong as 90x30 is just… absurd. I have total situational awareness from above while the blind Su-30s with their 9 degree vertical can’t see me.
Non-AESA sits roughly even with everything else being an excellent airframe but quite frankly blind.
Shame you have 120s and 9ms and they have actual missiles that work.
The same thing the 14.0’s have been doing? Lmao what kind of question is that?
@Morvran @Gunjob
I think I know now what’s happening to the AIM-9M. It’s caused by a bugged seeker-shutoff IRCCM behavior. Currently the seeker should be deactivated if it registers a flare inside its FoV and only activate again until there is no flare inside its FoV anymore. But sometimes it activates for a fraction of a second even if it shouldn’t (because there’s still a flare inside its FoV or the target flares at this exact moment), causing it to lock solidly while instantly switching over to IOG without having any valid data (or exaggerated data like a too fast movement vector) as the lock couldn’t be held long enough to extrapolate the target movement data, causing the lock to drift into nowhere. In the latter case (target flares at the worst possible moment) it should just deactivate the seeker again without tracking a non-existent movement vector.
My guess is now, that this also happens while the missile is flying if seeker-shutoff is triggered quickly one after the other by a flaring target. This also explains why it shows “TRK” continuously in sensor view while turning away from the target. Or it tracks a ghost-target in that moment and IOG is never activated which would also be a possibility.
Well it’a that, whilst I am functionally blind in the non AESA Typhoon. A lot of other jets were too.
But now the AESA typhoons can see me. The Rafales can, and could, see me. The Gripens can now see me AND the Sukhois can see me.
But I, as stated, have a 650 watt microwave from the 1960s bolted to my jet where there should have been a radar.
The Captor M experience has always been bad but now it is pretty friggin insufferable
