I played a few games in the f15e yesterday. Got a 3.33k/d out of those games.
I didnt have much issues overall
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why bother with AMRAAM when you can lase 20 AI target, swarm it with GBU-39 and rearm to get another 20?
Exhibit A)
(ignore the censor bar, I looked at what was written and lets just say someone was enthusiastic about squares and year 1989).
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13.0 is painful right now, personally I think they should have moved the BR cap to a minimum of 14.7 for the Rafs etc, the F-15E/I to 14.3 and the F-15C/J(m)/Baz to 14.0.
Those things have no business fighting SARH carriers.
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No it is TWS+
The issue is that targets aren’t refreshed when the radar beam passes them, but only a few seconds later when the scan pattern finishes
Yes they do because they update the target whenever the radar beam passes them, instead of it needing a few seconds to be updated
The AWG-9 definitely performs very poorly.
i think TWS+ on mech radars are just tweaking in general
oh something is tweaking allright, i just dont think its the radar but rather me after having to deal with that stuff
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atleast thats from what ive gathered, i mostly only fly the SMT out of the TWS+ mech planes but i have heard similar complaints from other TWS+ mech planes users on the forum
ye, its definetively engine issue rather than plane specific, because I refuse to believe that it just so happens to affect X planes.
Then again radars on both of my US 18C early and swiss 18C late are completly fine (to the point id much rather have AN/APG-73 than CAPTOR)
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Really cant agree, I only just spaded the F-14 IRIAF within the last 20-30 days and have been having a blast with the Fakours, and checking your stats it seems you do just fine with it as well.
Is it the best radar in game? Far from it. But at least it can track 4 soft locks at once without dropping them all unlike the F-15I
Well it’s fine when you’re BVRing, fast and theres no clutter or missiles coming your way. But as soon as you get within 30km of someone it’s just useless. The F-4Js radar is much better at keeping lock and even has HMD a full BR lower. The AWG-9 will waste no time prioritizing missiles over planes, intercepting chaff, and scanning everything but the thing RIGHT in front of it.
Plus, the F-15s radar has RAID + HMD mode which makes it much easier to pick out fighters from missiles and it’s gets all aspect capability.
I mainly play the F-14s and even though I love the jet, man can BVR get annoying and repetitive quickly. Especially when all your radar missiles are headon only and the only times you get kills with them is when you can visibly see they’re afk and not reacting.
It might genuinely be that the F-15 isn’t meta. The Israeli F-15A and F-16C have better stats than the american ones, but the 13.7 and 14.0 ones have nearly identical stats. The Japanese F-15s have better stats, but that may be due to their better missiles
The last 2 days I picked up my typhoon again and I fought my own radar more than the other team.
I don’t know what’s up but I think the sheer number of targets overwhelm the radar and it won’t display them all, maybe because it often picks up missiles in the air too which add to the number.
When tracking someone the radar often switches to a missile if that target fires.
Another issue that I despise about the typhoon is the overly sensitive RWR. It picks up everything from any aspect. I am either being constantly targeted by the whole opposite team, or my RWR is messing with me.
There’s not a plane where I spend more time defending than the typhoon. BOL chaff might be causing some issues on top of that.
The “scope range” of the RWR is also annoyingly long. Every signal dangerously close to you gets mashed together in the very center of the RWR screen, makes it harder to judge distance and angles.
Then you also get MAWS to distract you even more.
The FM is what makes it stand out and, but I hate the aim120s too. I don’t think it belongs in 14.3 in the current state.
I have similar or better matches in a fully uptiered F16D than the typhoon.
I might take the F15s for a spin again today and see how the radar is behaving.
I have been playing the F-16C (Barak) and F-16I a lot the last couple of days and their radars have also been “interesting” to use, to say it like that.
The radar constantly misses stuff like non AESA radars. But at least the RWR is more functional and derby are somewhat better than being stuck with aim120b