You get to be free kills for module research RP. And you will like it.
smt is added but the dogfight ability not rly good rd33 ser3 with 8300kgf trust not modelled and the r73 trust vector get massive nerf
The other nations could get some attention in the next major jet patch. Consider that once we get the Flanker and Eagle then Tree’s like Britain, Sweden, Japan, China can get equivalent capable airframes. such as the early Typhoon, Gripen, J-10/11, and F-2. As for the minor minor trees, anyone’s best guess, but at least 5-6 tree’s will have something for top tier.
r73 is still cracked, don’t complain. R27er and r27et too
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Xd so the aim9m not op and the g limiter remove. The agm65d not op too. I dont care the unlflareable aim9m but the r73 need back the normal thrist vector ability. The r27er useless in low altitude and the r27et have 4.8km head-on lock range so pointless rocket atm. Only useful in air sim maybe
I agree, it may not be the best at everything or nearly everything like the Mig 29 9-13 on launch, but it still has things it excels at and it has a role in the Meta, I think some people are overreacting since it has a less favorable matchup against the F-16C than the Mig 29 9-13 did with the F-16 ADF.
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A lot changed since I made that post. the F-16’s FM got updated and it received Aim-9Ms, which aren’t always as capable as the R-73 but are still excellent missiles. Nowadays they are about even, some people prefer the F16C while others like the 29SMT more. That’s as balanced as you can get.
I am grinding for both, but currently have neither. The plague of F-16s from every nation overrunning a small number of MiG-29s means that the SMT is not doing well this patch.
the SMT and F16C should be 12.7, most of the other 12.0s should become 12.3. Having IRCCM with HMD, R-27ERs and R-73s vs 11.3 planes makes the uptier experience miserable, and 11.0s should not be fighting the F-16A with the new flight model. It is so dominant that it should be fighting recent top tiers only.
I am holding out for hope given that gaijin did ground decompression recently.
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Frankly I don’t really care for what new planes they have coming out. I’d much rather they spent a bit of time adjusting the current Br hellhole of 8.7-10.3 power creep really becoming an issue.
For real. We don’t need new toys. We need a refresh to gameplay.
Seems fair, I’m definitely noticing that the F-16 pulls much harder as it should in this patch and now feels like a true successor to the F-5e, rather than the weird “Starviper” FM we had before, makss them much more competitive overall imo, and I might add that the FM changes are much more beneficial to the F-16 than the addition of a new IR is. That said, the Mig 29SMT doesn’t seem bad either, it can keep up and it still had the R-27ER which will catch players from time to time.
R-73, Aim 9M, and now Magic 2 seem fine, I think Gaijin is finally taking a step in the right direction with armaments this patch, I would hope other IRs like the Python 3 with it’a dual band seeker and the Aim 9L get their flare resistance at least somewhat modeled (or in the case of the 9L, reverted) so that they’re good pvp armament for all nations once more.
Block 50’s closest Russian counterpart is Mig-29M & Mig-35.
Which I guess are F-15A/C’s best counterpart as well.
F-15A/C’s counterpart is Flanker, not the Fulcrum.
F-15A/C Vs. Su-27/30
F-16 Block 50 Vs. MiG-29M
F-18C Vs. MiG-29K/Su-33
It is weird they added the SMT of all, and now both MiG-29’s perform worse than the MiG-23MLD even when fully spaded. They should have added the MiG-29K instead with the MiG-29M afterwards and we’d be in a good spot.
Until you realize that Mig-29M has a similar TWR to F-15C 8x R-77s, and is actually light.
It’s not weird the SMT was added when you consider it’s the worst airframe of the Mig-29s, and their intent is to put R-77s on it.
Interesting… how much more is the TWR than the current .13 to the M? Also 8 missiles take up a lot of weight also and with the wider multi role payload, it’s likely people would be running heavier mixed loads with the extra 2 pylons… that aside though, you have a great point. I guess the SMT is the last early gen MiG
The MiG-29M’s T/W ratio is a lot higher, since it has more powerful engines (8800kgf vs 8300kgf for static bench thrust), larger intakes, which means an even bigger step up in installed thrust (the one that matters in game) since the engine won’t lack air at low speed, and is also half a ton lighter than the SMT and only 400kg heavier than the 9-13.
It’s closer to an Eurofighter than the other MiG29s in terms of T/W
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The thing i dont understand, why did we recieved Export version of SMT instead of domestic one that has more countermeasures and better RWR while Us recieved its domestic version of Block-50.
Perhaps they thought it would be too good with them… but really i have no idea about it and in general about the direction they want to push the game to… We went from a somewhat balanced top tier match up to one where one plane has gotten an arcade flight model and another that, despite not being able to outrate a mig21, can obliterate everything because it’s still fast and has overpowered missiles (seriously, F-16s often win because the enemy team is filled with them, but the few games my team was 50% spaded SMTs there was no contest, since you can just zoom around with an almost impossible to notch radar with a now 35G r27er and R-73s that are an assured kill inside 1.5kms).
Well considering F-16’s became arcade planes while Block-50 recieved 120 countermeasures and Barak-2 recieved 200 of them, i say changing SMT into domestic version and increasing its survivability will be better.
Agree but I don’t think it will make a big difference. RWR is more than good enough for current sparrows and the countermeasures, while useful, won’t drastically change how you play the plane.
Well increased countermeasure amount will be always welcome.