We already see right now, things like A10C just have a 3-4 mile aura of death around them that things are too afraid to approach. (Same thing back when A6E / A10A / Su25 were at silly low BR with 9L / R60M).
Everytime we have experimented with this idea of giving lower performance aircraft missiles that are better than fighters of their BR, it’s been a balancing disaster. They either bully - or get shoved up so high in BR that people start actively asking for the gimmick missile to be removed so they can be dropped again (see GR4 / GR7 as examples).
It don’t think anyone benefits from it. It would not be fun to fight 14.0+ in a strike aircraft, and it would not be fun to fight a strike aircraft with OP missiles in those 14.0+ lol.
But you know, the more I write about us constantly repeating this same mistake again and again, I think you’re probably right. Sounds exactly what the snail will do again lmao.
Idk man. Fighting something like an ASRAAM in a 12.3 / 12.7 sounds absolutely unbearable. Would be infinitely worse than dealing with AMRAAM’s. There’s no notching. There’s no multipathing. Even if you roll a luck jackpot and flare it - it can just re-acquire you and come back again. It’d be awful, awful gameplay.
Python 4 are, as the name suggests fourth generation, they should already be in game. In fact they have been in the files for months. I hoped Gaijin would introduce them on this event Kfir, that afaik shouldn’t be able to carry python 3, but they didn’t, though they are also in the files.
Python 4 is a 5th gen missile as it uses a dual-band seeker and has extreme manueverability. The “4” is because it is the 4th missile in the family. Just because the Sidewinder is called the AIM-9 doesn’t mean it’s a “9th generation” missile.
Python 4 has dual-band IRCCM, it’ll be like trying to flare a TVC stinger. There is a reason why it’s been in the files for so long, because the Devs have also thought that adding it in currently without any competition would just be busted
I think a way this can be solved is by having mods affect BR where equipping the mod for AIM-9X would increase the vehicles BR and unequipping it would reduce the BR.
Other than that Gaijin would do either:
Add the exact same aircraft but with a slightly different name + better missiles.
Add it to an existing aircraft and increase it’s BR, either leaving a gap in the TT or the aircraft becomes absolutely impossible to play.
I’d like for them to implement those special flares every western country developed as a response to the new kinds of irccm as well if they ever get added
otherwise its just kinda gg explode
Eh, along with actual EC style maps (and not just the re-hash 128x128km maps that we have right now.) it would make it playable easily, after all you’ll need to start considering the strengths of your weaponry more critically, and your airframe.
They’re wrong, or using a different convention. Either way, it doesn’t matter what generation a weapon or vehicle is but it’s performance. The He 163 and MiG-17 are the same generation aircraft, as are the Su-7 and Tornado.
First off, asking for a “gimped seeker” goes back to what I said here-
What you’re asking for isn’t a Python 4 but just something that looks like it. And beyond that, even with a copy-pasted seeker from an existing missile it would still be far too powerful. The Python 4 can pull 50-70g with a 60 degree off-boresight and a 20km range. It would be fastest, longest-ranged, and by far most maneuverable IR missile in the game, and can even kill vehicles behind the launch aircraft.
Doesn’t matter when it was built or when it was introduced into service. Gaijin bases their decisions on whether a munition gets added or not by the munition’s capability.
If added, it would be the best IR missile in game by a decent margin provided it isn’t artificially nerfed. Gaijin usually prefers to add some contemporaries to even the playing field which leads into the discussion of 4/5 gen IR missiles being fucking danger sticks in creative mode.
