The F-15E has been performing pretty horribly as of recent, and as far as im aware it was nerfed again in the recent update. Currently, it has the third worst winrate at 47.2%, and only .76 kills per spawn. Other planes at the same BR have similar engines, better maneuverability, and a better loadout for both air to air and groundpounding. Is the plane finally gutted to the point where its just nowhere near competitive anymore for 14.0 or is it just american players being american.
Something with the radar on the F-15E and F-15I is bugged in my opinion.
One of the only aircraft I have with a terrible K/D purely due to the TWS+ function not being able to lock targets accurately or hold them when dealing with more than one enemy at a time. No other aircraft I play has this problem. As soon as I use the F-15I, the so called “BVR King” and attempt to fire on more than one target at a time, a majority of the time my previous locks will fail to be updated.
I guess this could be a classic case of skill issue, but I dont see why that wouldn’t translate over to other aircraft. There’s nothing particularly special about the F-15s radar and its functions, but its the only radar I have experienced that struggles to update more than one target at a time. Heck, even the F-14A radar is able to update multiple locks more reliably than the F-15.
You need to take into account the fact that despite F-15E not having exactly meta A2G missiles to act as CAS in ground battles, it has more ground kills than air kills.
That is likely due to fact people play it as bomber with GBU39s instead of focusing on air to air combat.
This very likely leads to skewed stats.
Dunno if you played EFTs but CAPTOR has also terrible TWS.
Its likely game engine than radar specific.
What makes you say this? I don’t have any of the Eurofighters yet, but a good amount of aircraft I play at 12.7-14.3 have a TWS+ function and do not preform poorly like the F-15’s radar.
F-14 IRIAF
Yak-141
MiG-29SMT
JAS39C
F-5TH TCU
Mirage 2000-5F
F-16C & F-16D Barak II
All of those aircraft have the same TWS+ function yet preform just fine.
Yeah, that needs to be accounted for as well. If they added the wing GBU-39’s like they should you could take out 12 ground targets without sacrificing a single AAM
Maybe i remember wrongly, but the last time I used JAS39C, it had a really bad TWS.
Can’t say I have experienced that, I just unlocked it a few days ago. Its nothing stellar, obviously wont have the same performance compared to a jet that has TWS ESA such as the Kfir C.10/Rafale/F-2A/Su-34 and 30SM but it can track more than 1 target at a time without losing track of previous targets unlike the F-15I radar.
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TWS+ was a terrible addition.
Absolute buggy mess that hasnt worked ever.
off meta aircraft with offmeta missiles? thats far more likely.
The Meta is BVR at top tier. At least thats how I get 90% of my kills
Sure, C5s are bad. But AMRAAM is used by most nations. So its not entirely to blame
no it aint.
nations with ef2k have an insane airframe to make up for it, others are either stuck are 13.7 or have an hornet which has 10 amraams so can make up for the lacking missiles with sheer quantity
I don’t really know why I don’t like the F-15I in-game, but it just doesn’t feel good. It’s just fast, and there isn’t much else to it.
It doesn’t have the most missiles, the best missiles, or the best radar. Its TWS is also particularly thin in width. It just doesn’t feel good.
I want to enjoy it. I love the F-15. I just can’t seem to get any reliable rewards from it. It genuinely feels like it can’t do anything if the enemy is paying a crumb of attention.
Meta is bvr within ± 10km or less. Some might call that wvr
In tank rb with the new SAM systems it pretty much is from my experience, the BUK’s 50kg warhead can wipe out a whole salvo of GBU-39s with one missile, and the agm-65s are laughable, very slow, no iog so will drop out of the sky if they lose lock for a second and will consistently not one shot tanks especially Russian ones
Again, all the aircraft I listed have TWS+ and preform just fine compared to the F-15I
Why are you speaking for aircraft you dont have?
Fought against it plenty. Its fine.
Americans do poorly at every BR, in every aircraft. even those that should be OP.
So its a BVR truck. Big deal, been there done that loads of times. Just requires playing smart. And not zerg rushing into the middle map expecting every fight to be easy like they had from the F-16s intro to the Typhoon/Rafale being added
Lol.
Its not “fine” because the TWS+ does not function like the rest of radars in WT that have TWS+.
Im speaking from personal experience as I have actually USED all of the aircraft I have listed.
F-14 IRIAF
Yak-141
MiG-29SMT
JAS39C
F-5TH TCU
Mirage 2000-5F
F-16C & F-16D Barak II
All have TWS+ and function leagues above the F-15I, which I also personally experienced as I have it unlocked.