thats not how the matchmaker works
Simply put, modeling the conical scanning seekers accurately would render every non-monopulse seeker missile way less effective.
Conical scanning seekers are not only vulnerable to chaff and ground clutter (Not to the same extent as pulse guided missiles, but still far more than inverse monopulse), they’re also very inaccurate at close ranges, meaning it could just straight up miss a target by overcorrecting at the last minute.
This would make the AIM-7F only useful against high flying targets which aren’t chaffing appropriately, and even then there’s a risk that it’d miss the target by more than it’s proxy radius of 8 meters.
That being said, I’d be OK with a toned down version of this being implemented, both to help game balance and as a nod to the real life discrepancy.
However, this would require a substantial rebalance of the entire 11.0-12.0 bracket, as the AIM-E-2/F go from being a fairly powerful weapons to much more niche and easily defeated.
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That would be reasonable, good idea!
yes but every round i played i got a full uptier
Doesn’t mean anything. You don’t get to be undertiered and overpowered just because you dont want to be uptiered
but its fully useless in a uptier even downtier
no its not. thats a skill issue
the NF5A in the french tree at the same BR gets AIM-9J
so does the chinese F5A
with better engines
The issue is that a base killing load of rocket pods is incredibly draggy.
While napalms are very light for the amount of damage they do (especially the chinese and soviet ones) and offer lower drag penalty.
I think napalm bombs should have their damage output cut in half to make them more equivalent to a similar conventional bomb load.
And smaller napalm bombs like the ones mounted on the A5C/Q-5s should have their damage cut into 1/4, which would it would be required 4 of them to kill a base, which wouldn’t pose any issue because all of these can carry at least 4 of them. The Q-5L can currently carry enough nalamps to kill 4 bases at a whopping cost of just about 1000kg load to carry for all 8 of those bombs.
…Another major gripe I have with the napalm bombs is how they compare with each other.
For example,
Makes absolutelly no sense that these 135kg napalm bombs from the A5C/Q-5 can do the same damage than the BLU-27 napalm bomb, which weighs 401kg and has SIX TIMES the amount of napalm payload (60kg vs 360kg) while both are the same “Napalm-B” explosive type.
According to Gaijin, 60kg of napalm in China weighs the same as 360kg of napalm elsewhere.
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Unless something changed recently, I’m pretty sure that is the case currently
I am wrong because they were indeed nerfed recently, but not by 1/4 or anywhere close to that.
2 of them can damage about 85% of a base, and they are still a lot stronger than any other napalms while being much smaller and carrying much less explosive(napalm) payload.
So they were nerfed by maybe 10-15%? Still stupid
This is the amount of damage that only 1 of those can do
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Id also heavily weight the damage towrads the burning effect. At the moment it does quite a lot of base damage on impact and then the base burns to death the remaining 25-40 ish %. If instead it only really did damage through damage-over-time. It would be possible for someone to come along and also hit the base with a HE bomb. Which would give another advnatage to running the usually far more heavy HE bombs
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Yeah, and it kinda would more sense too
Yeah…
Though tbh, I think the real solution I want is to just replace bases entirely, use mini versions of the deep strike bases we saw last year (but bigger than the ones we saw in the Nuclear thunder event) . Actual buildings, not HP bars.
That then could have an impact on how effective Napalm would actaully be.
Guessing they would just make the napalms deal a lot of damage to the buildings anyway.
But it would be funny to be able to stop convoys advancing and get assists on the targets that were killed while affected by the stoppage.
Maybe large scale fire spreading would be interesting, and create a visibility curtain for low-flying aircraft
It could vary on the type of buidling, but its where radius of impact could have an effect. Napalm still destroying buildings it hit, but only those it actually hit. Where as larger HE bombs normally carried by other aircraft to destroy a base had a proportionally much larger radius of impact.
mabye but the f4 uk is still way worse then the f4s usa at the same br, that is undeniable