Oh wow, I’m sure all the players of other nations are feeling really happy about being powercrept because the US needs to be handheld in the air just as much as Russia is on the ground! Ignoring Russia’s air tree, there’s 5+ more nations in this game who hadn’t had a jet on par (or better) with US in years - and it doesn’t look like they will be getting proper counterparts anytime soon either.
Germany’s only viable top tier jet was nerfed this patch, and they once again are being powercrept after years of not being competitive.
UK has been dead for a while since their “answer” to the F-16C was Harrier GR.7 getting 9Ms…
Japan is being powercrept after being powercrept for years!
Italy’s answer to US is another Harrier, lol.
China?
France just got a missile buff, whereas Mirage 2K hasn’t been a top dog in forever (if it ever was, that is - but considering it was added after the F-14A, lmao).
Forget Sweden. They just don’t exist.
Only Israel got an actual counterpart.
Man, so just 6 out of 7 nations that aren’t Russia and US are being forgotten again! However this doesn’t actually matter to you, does it?
Let’s see, the only two nations without 12.0s: Sweden & Britain. That’s it.
Every other nation has aircraft on-par with USA & Soviets for the last year.
Once 12.3 comes, ALL ten tech trees will be on par with one another.
Much to the issue people will somehow have with South African Gripen.
In a historic matchmaker Zeroes would stomp US Navy aircraft till Spring 1941 or sth. only to be rather obsolte afterwards.
If you match by decade for decade the US would likely ruin everyone in the 70s but then UssR would do likewise in the 80s.
What you want to see realised makes not much sense for the game War Thunder is.
In WW2 you could create Br section year by year or month by month.
What would you do with 109, Spitfire and FW-190?
At one point in time each of these3 aeroplanes was the best in European skies.
Your drivel screams 'murrica f*ck yeah but little else.
Mirage 2000 was rather competitive and still should be but Super 530D has been held back, just like Magic 2 and arguably it’s flight performance.
The number of Mirage 2000 variants compared to F-14/15/16/18 as well as MiG-29 and SU-27 variants is limited of course.
Meaning that it will be hard to keep this aeroplane family balanced.
This is of course an issue for all minor nations which might not even have a domestically designed fighter jet.
Lightning was in RAF service till 1988.
Jumping from Phantom or ADV to Typhoon is a issue for this game obviously.
The argument was more’so about jets that are actually “equivalent” in terms of performance. While the Mirage 2K is indeed competitive and can hold its own, in terms of overall performance potential, it really doesn’t hold a candle to stuff like F-14B or F-16C.
In my experience it does.
F-14 is easiest to deal with. While F-16 should not have any advantage regarding weaponry each have their advantages and disadvantages in a “dogfight”.
Very interesting to see are the constant flight model changes.
While Mirage 2000 is a lightweight fighter similar in concept to F-16 or even MiG-29 it was a highly competitive jet during the 80s and 90s.
In game this has been reflected somewhat reasonably with various issues which other vehicles have suffered from as well ofc.
Honestly if you US mains just want to circlejerk over how great the US is why don’t you stop playing a game that will not let you have your ezmode curbstomp and just move over to watching your history channel documentaries in groups instead ?
I never understand this mentality. Dude up there is asking to pit Su 24 vs F-14 and shit…
That’s Doc for you. It’s literally their entire personality at this point, I’m somewhat convinced it’s just an AI posting with how consistent they do it.
And yet it only has a single feature from said upgrade. Neither the advanced ordnance / stores options or the upgraded radar it should have are modeled.
İt has APG V7 radar which was used during that time, not to mention no other plane has recieved its best equipments. Only thing is missing is the Aim-7P which Gaijin probably not gonna introduce anytime soon considering they are getting prepare for Fox-3 Era.
İf that was the case we would have seen Aim9X+Aim120 versus R77+R74.