I have the cash to buy and crew the F-15J right now. I understand that the current meta is fighting with ARH, but is this plane still good enough to play as of now?
Does it have ARH missiles?
If No, then no, its not worth it. If it cannot equip ARH missiles it is useless.
If it does, then its an F15, and its fine.
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At least AAM-3 should be strong…
Its good enough. Just remember when you get uptiered you’re on the backfoot. I still climb but I’m cautious, I’m mainly at high altitude to bait Fox 3s .
If you’re planning to get to the 13.7 F-15J, you’re out of options. It’s either the F-16AJ, or the F-15J. While the first is a powerhouse at —critically endangered— ratefights, The F-15J is an aggresively mid aircraft, it doesn’t have anything particularly great going for it like the new fancy avionics or missiles of the 13.7 variant, but doesn’t have huge downsides other than the lack of HMS mode, which is still doable, but forces you to rethink several approaches.
In conclusion, i’d rather pick a currently mid F-15J than a F-16AJ that its main trick is getting fundamentally counterplayed by the ARH meta.
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thing is I have the AJ already and I don’t like it at all. it’s so shit i’d rather live in the boonies for a month and work in a goddamn farm. I’m looking for a top tier option and wishing that this plane might be it.
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I mean buy the 13.0 F-15J regardless of my POV, it might be a decent grinder all things considered, i just wanted to make things clear that it won’t be a huge gamechanger when compared to the 16AJ.
And the 13.7 F-15J solves most of the annoying issues regarding avionics +ARH missiles at a slight cost in thrust, so go for it, once you notice the improvements, you’ll love it.
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I have 50+ games into, jesus christe its a pain bus 13.0 is mistake for plane that has no ARH and best SARH is 7M
Just play Phantom Kai at 12.3 'cause you get downtiers without ARH spam and in general you will get less ARH as max uptier is 13.3 and that phantom itself is monster in head-ons with 7Fs and its radar that keeps lock like dream, on the other hand…
F15J is absolute mistake, you will notch and doge, and notch and doge, and notch and doge, it’s so unspeakable frustrating cause platform is great, but you are literally locked in situation like “bringing knife to gunfight” because you don’t have armament, and then again, f15 is great platform, but in dogfight you easily get beaten in 1 turn by all delta canards and what not, you shine only when it comes to pure power (also no HDM)
I strongly advise against it any of you from bothering to hard with that mistake of a balance jet, not unless its downtiered or BR gets decompressed
Cause remind you, its 13.0 but there is f14 IRAF at 12.7 with Fakour (much better aim54) so unfairness hits hard
And sure AAM-3 or even 9M are NICE, but that is a KNIFE you brought into GUNFIGHT (Aim120, Fakour R-77 etc.)
You will have to try hard to get into range to stab someone and not die to guns in this set up.
And with eurofighter coming and being put at 13.7 or 14.0 its game over, absolute game over for this missile-less F15J
No ARH on your 12.7+ plane? DO NOT BOTHER
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13.0 is brutal, 90% of games are 13.7.
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I bought and spaded it in the last 2 weeks, it still does very well if you know what you’re doing, but like most jets at this BR if you are bad you will suffer like anything else. The playstyle is a bit unique in that its very opportunistic and conservative until it isn’t. I found myself playing quite defensive early game, electing to not go for early radar missile shots, but as the game progresses I usually found myself ambushing multiple jets at once with pop up attacks from behind terrain with AIM-9Ms/AAM-3s and the occasional sparrow.
Just realized this post is 4 months old because somebody bumped it, so you have gotten and played this long ago.
Yeah no this is definitely a pilot error if you think this.
Literally any jet can play hiding and using your team mates as bait.
yeah and I hate 13.0 BR range. the only good plane in that range is J-8F and that is all. wish they can just bump that plane BR to 13.7 and allow it to carry 6 PL-12 and be done with it.
it usually fails big time because I have the “go in later” tactic just to see the entire team dies.
Sure? This one is extremely good at it though? The point is the F-15 has the tools to be a seriously good jet when used in this way.