Same goes for the F-15 and pretty much every other plane
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I have played both back to back. The F-15 radar is easier to work with, the RWR is better because of what mentioned above about the typhoon. MAWS? I wish I could turn it off.
Fair. But the typhoon seems more broken than the F-15 atm.
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In what way? Both radars are riddled with bugs and i couldn’t really find a difference, but you might be right as i haven’t had a lot of time to play recentyl. RWR is RWR. MAWs is nice, wish i had that. It’s far better for sim or GRB, maybe not ARB, in which you would have a point to stand by.
In any case, Wt is pretty broken overall but based on technical performance already implemented in war thunder (with no bugs), the EFT is better than the current F-15E
Typhoon seems to miss detections more often. The radar might be better late match when there is fewer people and missiles flying about.
MAWs is just a distraction most of the match, more useful when you are clutching end game, but usually its not. It will also sometimes pick up missiles that are not targeting you at all which adds to the distraction element.
About the RWR? It’s overly sensitive and the scale/scope is bad for functionality (like playing with your radar scope at max range)
For example, I was following the last guy (su-30sm) yesterday late game with IRST from behind and above, maybe 10km horizontal distance at 5000m altitude, and he was heading to a base target to bomb while hugging the ground. When he started rocketing or bombing that base (could not tell how he did it) my RWR started screaming telling that the Su-30SM was locking and launching at me.
That was just with 1 enemy present. Now imagine with a full team. You’ll be kept constantly defensive because of how bad the RWR is (in functionality)
I’m experimenting with the RWR sensitivity settings to see if I can offset that issue without losing important RWR signals at the same time, but it’s annoying having to change that everytime you switch jets.
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what does the rwr sensitivity setting even do ?
Decreases RWR sensitivity in the literal sense. If you decrease it you start filtering signal sources that might be coming from radar side or rear lobes for example. Or ignore signals from long-range. Playing with it is a double-edged sword.
Was it something like this?
That happens a lot with the typhoon
10000% skill issue… Just had a game in my F-2A… F-15E hits me from 27km while I’m at 40m alt, notching and spamming chaff… I manage to RTB… He RTBs and rearms… he’s back spamming missiles at me from 30km when I’m barely of the ground… I shoot AAM-4s at him and go defensive and he dies because unlike him I’m paying attention to the map and my team and realize it’s a 2 v 1 and my SU-30SM team mate is coming in from the side so I lived and he got sodomized by an unlubed R-77-1 because 2 RWR warnings are TMI for the USA mains… Oh they guy already had 4 kills from brainless AIM-120 spam