no?
amraams dont require bvr to be good
deck does not = dogfight
they are sidegrades to one another…
try comparing the jet to current 13.3s why don’t ya?
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Plane is not that bad.
Compared to its peers it is kinda stinky, my solution would be to just play the Japanese Gripen.
Solution: have a modicum of more skill than the enemy plane (top tier is just who is better generally)
At 13.7 I’d rather play practically anything else tbh-
But yes, top tier is infested with lobotomites
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just bought it
my condolences
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if it was 13.3 it will be better than current state
Problem is it can’t really go to 13.3, it would be too strong.
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F-16A OCU is one of the many examples of a plane that can’t be properly balanced because of BR compression.
Its even worse than the now undertiered F-16D
Make top tier 14.7-15.0 and we might be able to find a place for it
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F-14A IRIAF is 13.0 currently, so it won’t see planes with a rating of 14.3-14.7 if they come out or decompression happens.
while F-16A OCU is 13.7 currently, so it will see planes on 14.3-14.7 even if decompression happens.
so, bringing F-14A IRIAF on F-16A OCU problem is off-topic.
As a 140% joke, F-14A IRIAF has 25% extra Countermeasures than F-16A OCU with two step lower BR.
compare to any 13.3?
Is it just MiG-29SMT and Su-34 at 13.3 now? I forget.
JF-17, Su-33, Mig-29SMT, and the F-16D are the only 13.3 planes.
and JF-17/F-16 Barak
F-16D is better than the OCU. Sidegrade in FM, far more countermeasures, Radar HMD.
I’d take the F-16D/JF-17 over the F-16A OCU.
(F-16D should be 13.7)
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The F-16 OCU is notably inferior to every other 13.7 F-16, and its solely because of Gaijin. It has less countermeasures than all other F-16s despite the bug reports being for it to have more, in A2G it is missing armament such as inner pylon GBUs & AGM-65G, it has a worse targeting pod than all other 13.7 F-16s, it’s fictitious HMD can’t slave the radar, and the one advantaged it might have in inner-pylon AGM-65s is blocked from being used with the lau-88s by Gaijin for some reason. It is actually just worse than all other F-16s at the BR, and possibly worst of all this whole situation is avoidable.
Neither the HMD nor the Radar is historical- irl there is no such thing as “APG-66S”: Thai F-16A OCUs do not have AMRAAM capability and simply should have been added at 13.0 without it, where they would be more comparable to planes like the Netz. But instead, we get this mess. (They even took a bug report on this like 2 months ago, lol Community Bug Reporting System)
The only Thai F-16 that should be 13.7 (or even 14.0) is the Thai F-16A (e)MLU, which w don’t have yet in game.
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how is that a sidegrade FM
F-16A OCU should not be lowered, but it is also not on par in any fashion to the other 13.7 f-16s.
it is currently just an example of how BR compression can fuck up a plane