Dude, the F-5s are undertiered already.
12.0 is fine.
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Not gonna pay US$70 for that.
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At 11.7 it would club, at 12.0 is fair, not the best but okish. It should absolutely not drop to 11.7 unless BR’s are decompressed, which is much needed
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Man, seems like a lot of people never read up on the history of the F-20, and it shows lol
It was always going to be an inferior F-16 at a similar, if not the same BR, especially with almost the same weapons load.
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That’s a joke right?
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Basically it’s a worse F-16 with 2 less missiles, imo it’s obvious and makes perfect sense for it to be 11.7
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After playing the game for so long, you don’t need to play a vehicle a lot to assess it’s power level. A few matches and test drives is enough, especially for planes.
The Mirage-2000 which is better in almost every way is 11.7
Still arguing with only 4 battles. Since your opinion is based on lack of experience on the f-20 i’m going to ignore it. You haven’t played enough to gain the necessary vehicle specific skills to operate it well enough.
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Why not? It is super fast, super maneuverable, the engine is insanely powerful for the size of the airframe, has a true PD radar (not PDV), AIM7Fs, 6 AIM9Ls, and a radar guided gun. I would rather have the F-20 than the F-14B at 12.0 To be honest, the only thing the F-14B has on it is the AIM9Ms.
F-14B does not have 9M
My bad, meant 7Ms. Wanna talk about all those other things I mentioned, or did you want to just point out I made a slight mistake.
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I’d still rather take the F-14B, infinite flares and chaff, 8 missiles, can take 2 buffed phoenixes alongside 7M (my preferred loadout) as semi reliable Fox3s, has thermals for ground RB, TWS mode. Yes it’s headon radar but the radar on f-14 is still very good.
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Cool, your preferences for vehicles doesn’t mean that those other vehicles need to move up/down in br. The F-20 is a close in fighter, and it is pretty amazing at that, even at 12.0. The F-20 completely outclasses the F-14A in everything except the amount of SARH missiles it has. It flies better than the F-14B and carries more IR missiles, but lacks those better SARH missiles as it is a close in fighter. The F-20 being 12.0 is absolutely fine.
I made a joke that it was the F16 at home the other day. Someone literally said “don’t you mean F-18? It uses its engine” and I mean… like man… go read the Tigershark lore haha
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You shouldn’t even be firing Aim-7F from 40Km anyways, so the buff is basically useless
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This is true, it’s the F-16 we have at home.
But still I’ll be using it because it’s good money maker, I don’t have anything to research in USA tree but the SL earns are good.
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Guys don’t worry, clueless American main statistics (the weakest player base in the game) will ensure It goes down to 11.7 in 2 patches at most
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I concur that it belongs at 11.7. Anyone saying 11.3 is nuts.
Over the F-5E Tiger II;
It gains superior flight performance. + .3
It gains SARH capability. + .3
It gains all aspect IR guided missiles. + .3
(There are also some GRB stuff like target designation and CCIPs being added, but nothing to really influence the BR of it too much)
This reasoning suggests a 1 point Br increase. Just compare it to the F-16s and it’s glaringly obvious it doesn’t belong at the same BR. It was designed to be less capable, just more cost effective and inexpensive. It is the budget F-16, not an F-16, nor as capable or deserving of the same BR as it.
Ofc, Aim-120As might flip the script a bit. Since as far as I’m aware it can carry 4 of them compared to the ADF’s 2 (correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve heard it was only 2 for the F-16ADF, need to look into it)
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