Off topic but not sure how the F-18 radar performs. I’m betting it is similar to the F-20A? F-20A radar seems more reliable than the F-4EJ Kai (APG 66).
Sparrows seem to “go dumb” less with the F-20A, and I don’t seem to get loss of signal as much.
Yeah, if I’m not mistaken the F-20A and F/A-18s have the same radar. I can’t attest to the live server as I haven’t finished research yet but on the dev the radar performed pretty well, no F-4S style “wait-three-hours-painting-the-dude-and-get-slammed-by-an-R24” but it can take a moment to lock. I do think the A and C have a different radar, though don’t hold me to it
Yeah the Sparrows get a much clearer picture and in turn have a preference of working. It also helps being a more modern radar, as opposed to being an earlier PD
do you really think F/A-18A is worse than Bison?
It might be a missile bus, but 4th gen missile bus flies way better than 3rd-ish gen missile bus.
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and then we have mig 29, sitting in 12.7 having just 2 R27ER’s and 4x r60m’s… And people are seriously trying to say hornet is just fine in 12.3.
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I had plenty of premium F/A-18C and TT A in the teams of the last battles.
None of them performed brilliantly, with many more being level 80 or above. Overall, half of them didn’t get a single air kill
lol F-18’s engines make it accelerate as fast as an F-16 while sustaining better than the F-16.
The fact you claim that R-27ER and AIM-7 aren’t lethal is hilarious.
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Tis wild it sits at the same BR as the 16A which im spading rn and going for the 18A. I genuinely thought the F18 would be far worse when I see it at 12.3.
was pleasantly surprised when one was keeping up with me trying to out rate him.
did not end well.
JH7A:
F16A:
Kurn2k:
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I wish this forum had a downvote button sometimes
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Totally.
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Abysmal take, but that’s to be expected from the person who bombs in the J-7D
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Not really, we could really use some BR decompression so we can move the best 12.7-14.0 up and put the F-18A in 12.7. The F-18C early should sit between the current 12.7s and the 13.0s but due to BR compression there’s no space to balance a lot of jets.
Fully agree, both the m2k and the bison have far more effective loadouts that often you can do nothing about, and you can’t run from a m2k. I’m glad that most bison players are noobs because that think in the right hands is nasty
Not true. According to statshark bison has 1+ kills per spawn on average. This is very rare for planes, let alone a premium top rank plane
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What’s not true?
Yeah the bison having that good stats is not surprising, since its almost a 13.0 loadout at 12.3 on a fast jet which is also a very small target and has an easy time flaring any non-irccm missiles.
It’s not a great dogfighter but with that loadout one should be getting consistently 2-3 kills on average, 3-4 if you know what you are doing and your team doesn’t instantly crumble
Well you called most bison players noobs, but stats show on average they perform okay
Yeah naturally, because its OP, and its performance coasts on its amazing loadout which most noobs can use just fine. With the F-18A or F-16ADF (yes the 12.7 one) you need to be far more skilled and lucky to get similar consistent results.
But yeah, 2 wrongs don’t make 1 right, both should be higher in BR.
But without decompression, the F-18A will be a bad 12.7
I am quite unsure that Bison need to be the same BR with MiG-29(R-27ER) before decomp,
but I agree that it is a powerful machine.
If those napalm bombers didn’t bombed on Bison too, I am double sure that Bison got nerfed to 12.7 very quickly and became a bad 12.7.
You bomb minibases in top tier jets.
As compared to other things around its BR, it is merely one step above the F-4J over which it has almost every advantage possible.
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Agree, there’s not much leeway to balance this stuff with the current compression.
The jump from 12.7 to 13.0 is the worst, like imagine the F-16A Netz being just 0.3 below the su-27. Actually, we don’t need to, it’s real lol
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this plane is pay2win right now that needs a big br nerf.
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