The only one that matters is stupid?
gaijin thinks its fox-3 is enough for it if it which is why it isnt buffed you can still do good in it ofcourse but the plane is no where near as good as other 13.0 options and F14B may have good FM but not better than F15A at same BR which also gets 9M and a better radar for its aim-7Ms its mid at 13.0 theres a few mid 13.0s but guess what they still perform decent so they dont get buffed not to mention the SU27/33 all get IRCCCM R73 and R27ER and it carries a lot of them also your good FM compared to other planes its a lot hotter meaning almost any R73 launch is a massive pain to beat in a dog fight
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F14 also probably wont be able to flare the R73 in a dogfight from my experince just cause how hot it is
That has nothing to do with its flight performance
The only reason the F-14B and other 13.0s are allowed to suffer is because of the 500% increase in premiums added to BRs around that area.
The 2 F/A-18C Earlies, The Viggen DI21, the MiG-21 Bizon, MiG-29 Sniper, F-2A ADTW
All of these planes are bought by absolutely trash players who of course are going to be professional 30x grand champion phoenix feeders. They manipulate the stats heavily.
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Yeah the game would be better without bottom feeders in top tier premiums, doesn’t change the fact that the statistics for the game show the F-14B performs at the same level as it’s peers as I’ve been saying.
If the devs played their own game they’d be able to see these things and make better balancing decisions.
Its rather ironic too that the J-8F got better IRAAMs when its one of the best preforming 13.0s as well, with a 52% WR, compared to the F-14B having a 48% WR, its the lowest of the 13.0s to boot. The viggens are the highest preforming at 56% WRs followed closely by the Mirage 4000 at 55%.
If you are using literally any third party site to determine this your stats are probably wayyyy off.
Not when this one is accurate for the most part
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It likely isn’t
Why
Sample size too small, players who care about stats are the only ones updating their record for the website
You can most certainly account for that.
So instead of being cryptic you guys are going to post the source or number of people whose data has been looked at, right?
Assuming these statistics are the entirety of them pulled from Gaijin’s playerbase, the F-14B is right in the middle of the pack, slightly below average in winrate. Then again, it beats several of the peers who do have AIM-9M and better flight models in kills per spawn and kills per death. It is a solid middle grounds vehicle which to Gaijin, is a huge indicator that there is nothing wrong with it.
Instead what is clear is that the JA37DI and F-14A IRIAF are outliers among their peers and need nerfing. The American F-15A which is supposedly superior to the F-14B in flight model and ordnance performs far worse and needs a buff by those same standards. I don’t make the rules, Gaijin does.
Though since they haven’t adjusted anything I suspect they understand the truth of the matter… American players suck? I mean how else do you explain the other F-15’s at 13.0 outperforming it since they don’t have any significant upgrades by comparison? Surely the BAZ with Python 3s and no IRCCM is the reason… I can understand Japans 40G upgrade.
I haven’t had the chance to play it yet today. Is the F-14B good now that it literally can’t see Eurofighters and Rafales. Surely it sees something other than 14.0 now, right?
its still ubplayable XD.
It’s still decent at 13.0-14.0 because theirs still better missile like the r73, rb74, Matra R550 Magic 2 , PL missiles, r27er , aim120, SD-10(A),aim7P,r-77 etc…
It’s for sure still tuff to play
I flew a few missions. Seems the 14.0+ fighters are getting stuck together and the F-14B is fighting around 13.3 - 13.7 most of the time if it isn’t a full down tier. Due to this the winrate feels 50/50