MiG-25 overpowered

It has a BR of 11.0, and BR of 10.7 in arcade (!).

Something like the MiG-21BIS would be fine mostly, because R-60Ms are easily flarable even by rockets due to a giant seeker (which it mainly relies on) and R-3R are essentially one trick pony that can be escaped by literally going under it.

Hell, even something like the F-4E is highly dependent on whether the radar actually tracks due to SRC mode and sometimes it bypasses ground clutter in close range and could be overran by chaff despite CW seeker.

The JA37C similarly combine the potential loadout of Aim-7F and PD radar, but it is still 11.3.

The MiG-25 is also absurdly fast that it could just run away from engagements if it wanted to.

Stop turning 10.0 into a multipathing, bombing wasteland like what 11.0 became due to 12.0.

a baboon from the lion king has returned

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Is this guy serious or is this ragebait?

Also maybe the MiG25PD is a bit wonky I smacked a tree at mach 1 and nothing either the flight model was funny or just this.
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Huge skill problem, I bet you’re trying to beat him by flying high. I’d like to know what’s going on inside some people’s heads when they think flying high in front of a MiG-25 will work. And in the game chat I saw a lot of people saying he was bad, they all have skill problems too.

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It’s a fair bit worse than the Mig-23ML/A/D in air RB, and it’s BR should reflect that.

It’s actually slower than a Mig-21bis at low/medium altitudes.

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Past like 7km you really do start to feel the practical speed though. Which is not difficult to hit in a normal match

you dont even need to multipath, just stay below 1000m and they literally cant do much to you.

They also literally cant flare aim 9L missiles

their speed and characteristics match 11.7 more than 11.0 but its not exactly game breaking at all.

Just like in real life its a paper tiger that ive been sealclubbing in a hawk 200 of all planes

Same with the mig25 but the mig25 is stuck with a slower/wider scan and no ACM.

I only carry one r40rd because i dont like having to fight the radar. If it could carry 4 r40td or had a better radar, i could see it go up no problem.

But right now, you got flarable IR missiles and a decent SARH tied to a bad radar.

Ironic

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He trolls harder than me or @hora11

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if there was a narrower scan that would be nice but there is no way the MiG-25 ever had ACM irl sadly

Yeah, i know that it was like this irl but it still sucks.

So many times where i have to wait 5-10sec for it to pick up an enemy at 7km alt.

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can you cue the radar with IRST? that has a pretty quick scan on the small mode

I have not tried that.

If that works, it could help in some situations.

it works

Yes they can, same with magic 2 too

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in the meantime, i just downed 3 MiG-25 todays, with AIM-9C using USN F-8E (out of 3 games, 1 death, 9 kills totals)

how hard it is for MiG-25 players not to rush-in mid map? i don’t know,… i didn’t loose my holydays to play the game enough.

but it’s certain that they’re quite freekills for AIM-9C’s :D