Germans got a new one at the same BR as the Italian (Romanian) MiG-29 as well didn’t they? early Swiss F-18C.
I’d have thought that would be the most capable premium to get towards one of the three Typhoons
Not 100% sure but i did this in a sim match alittle while ago.
mmm, at least form my test flight testing with the american one, the F-18 feels kinda boaty imo, didn’t really feel comfortable reccomending it personally Plus kinda forgot about it lmao
We are getting auto PRF?
ASB or ARB?
ASB, then Harrier T-10, Harrier Gr1, Sea Vixen are all fairly decent grinders.
ARB, it gets a little tricky. T-10 is pretty solid but struggling with the Harrier nerfs at the moment. but you will be forced into a bit of a specific playstyle. But with the F-18s being 12.7, you shouldnt be dragged up too often.
But its a real shame we dont have something like a Premium Tonka or Buc
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Do you mean the American prem F18? Cause the swiss one got the updgraded engines, so it should fly a bit better
We already have while in STT. I’m not talking about Auto ACM.
Oh. I thought maybe you meant Auto-PRF in TWS
Typhoon is still toilet water the speed loss from turning is ridiculous. Radar I expected to be terrible and it is.
Turned once while defending at 35kft and lost mach 0.7!
Yet Rafale looses next to nothing. These double standards are exhausting
the ef walks all over the f2
well its currently the second best plane in the game (good) and people complain about it not being good enough 24/7 so
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Should’ve abused the Harrier GR.1 when that first came out, had entire teams of them :p
2020
The Typhoon is missing so much performance
The Radar, the FM it is largely an unifinished unrefined mess.
Gaijin wont fix it they gave us 120C and said there you go.
Rafale is the benchmark. If Rafale is a 10/10
Typhoon is a 6/7 in line with or just above the Su-30SM.
Typhoon is fast and will turn well once/twice before it’s AOA/instructor engine thrust “feature” drains it off energy.
If Rafale is the 10 then Typhoon should be closer to 9.5 and it just isn’t
well the rafale is massively over-performing currently in str so i find it very hard to believe that the eurofighter, a plane that currently has near identical performance in game to the rafale, that has a very similar design and wingloading and twr isnt also over performing by some degree.
what?
the issue here is that rafale is just in a different league to every other airplane rn, the performance gap between everything other than the rafale is close enough to where if the rafale was nerfed the game would actually be in a pretty healthy state balance wise. so making the ef just as good as the rafale is just going to make the game absolutely miserable for everyone who isnt in either an ef or a rafale. whats even worse is that the ef is 3 tech trees which basically means you are always going to be fighting them. the solution is not turbo buff the ef, that is only ever going to make the game worse.
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What you are saying makes perfect sense but Gaijin believe and the reports reflect, that the Rafale is performing close to it’s real world counter part. Yes it’s better in places and in inferior in others.
The Rafale is performing in Gaijins eyes as it does. Now the only other Euro Canard in game that is considered Gen 4.5 is the Typhoon.
The Typhoon on the other hand is underperforming in a large metric of it’s real world capabilities and we all thought this was likely a “balancing” tool. Ignoring reports, claiming “marketing lies” while chosing to blindly trust Kh-38 brochure from 5 years ago… Typhoon has a rough time of getting any meaningfull changes and fixes.
Turns out Gaijin have largely forgotten about Typhoon, Radar is still very broken and we still dont even have a UV tint for the cockpit and all the bugs on the Dev have ended up on the live server. (I know that’s not exclusive to Typhoon)
I agree though Typhoon having realistic performance/Radar would completely invalidate the F-15E BVR style gameplay which it should. In the short to medium range if Typhoon had it’s realistic ITR and STR it would be like a Rafale and as you pointed out 3 nations have Typhoon (Although you will be lucky to see more than 6 on both sides!)
This airframe has been considered in terms of kinematics the closest thing Europe have to an F-22.
Unfortunately the Typhoon at every speed just feels heavy and unrefined. Will Gaijin buff it when they add F-22?
I think we are once again going to fall victim to the statistics system Gaijin use, Typhoon with a crap Radar small payload manages to get kills it’s fine lets not tweak it. We know Gaijin doesn’t care about balance for the anyone outwith the major nations and Air has predominantly been Russia vs USA with France only starting to sneak in. We will likely see Gen 5 this year or early next year. Are they going to nerf the F-22 or claim “marketing lies”?
Meanwhile in the background the Rafale keeps getting buffs and fixes.
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Rafales new party trick, forget 10/10 this thing is an 11 or 12/10
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Leviathans Update: Eurofighter,
- HUD is worse off now
- Gaijin attempted GMTI, failed
- No radar changes
- Added AIM120A+
Also feels like MAWS was nerfed
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I’ve noticed that too, MAW feels like worse than before.
Can you specify how it become worser? Tbh, from my experience in Rafale, despite EFT had 9 KM Rangefinder MAW that can visualize incoming missile from 9 KM, RangefinderMAW will always detect the missile when it reaches the range, while Optical MAW despite it stats “Detecting” Missile only from 5 KM, it actually can detect more than that range.