As I said above. Normally, most aircraft get 1 full downtier bracket. F-4S and other 12.0s miss out on the 12.3 bracket which would be a minimal uptier for it (and quite frankly thats needed for the 12.3s more than anything else which are forced to fight 12.7s all the time)
A 12.3 bracket would means the worst it would face is the F-4EJ KAI Phantom II, JH-7A, Mirage 2000C-S5/S4
and that’s it. The only other 12.3 is a Harrier Gr7 which its always matched with
(i now get why they didnt bother with a 12.3 bracket, only 9 aircraft at that BR currently and only for some nations)
Purely at top tier, the Su-27 has one of the weakest radars of any nation at the moment and is a bit buggy (actually all radars are, but the Su-27s radar seems perticuarly badly affected). Also the R-77s have a lot shorter range than AMRAAM. (though R-77s are better at close range)
So in those respects. Its worse. But… Su-27 can also take an obscene amount of weapons and weapon types, so can handle situations better than most, just takes a lot more effort (in part gaijins really bad weapon selection cycling)
But below that, Mig-23MLD is still good, though finally actually 11,7 worthy and not where it should have been before the nerfs of 12.0
Also doesnt help that the Bluefor vs Redfor balance is out at the moment, so soviets are usually fighting like 1v2 at the moment, but not a lot can be done about that
Yeah… I’ve never played it, but FGR2 vs Mig-23MLD definetly feels like the MLD holds all the cards unless they are stupid enough to try and fight me at alt in a headon.
They are used to 3 years of not having to put in any effort to get kills in it. They do now.
And im having a blast finally getting my revenge on all the times I was stuck in the FGR2 to deal with them now that I can Bring the Tornado F3 to bear against them in those glorious downtier brackets.
There is a 12.0 bracket. How would it be any different?
A 12.0 to 12.3 bracket wouldnt work. There isn’t enough aircraft at 12.0 or 12.3. it would basically be mirage 2ks , F4 KAIs and tornado advs Vs f14as, F4s and tornado f3s
Additional problem - as has been discussed further up - with the 12.0 rotation is that there’s only a phew Phantoms, the early Tornado fighters and a Viggen there, nothing on the typical “red” side.
Thats plenty. Just do all vs all. Idk why red and blue countries exists at this point at all.
For example top jets almost every time playing heavily unbalanced lobbies. 1 to 2 or 3 unbalanced.
12.0 being top tier is unbalanced af. Same when its down tier.
Just make permanent 12.0-12.3 bracket with all vs all lobbies. Would be awesome.
