This isn’t quite true, they all have correct pitch-up moments. I’m not at my PC this week so I can’t really record and show it at the moment but they were all corrected according to my report. They can all properly Cobra… They don’t stall too early. Post-stall maneuvers aren’t a thing for the MiG-29, only ease of post-stall recovery.
We don’t know how the SMT is supposed to perform. We don’t have sufficient data on the airframe to know. Gaijin has modeled it as a heavier 9-13 with even more internal fuel and tbh it’s not even that much heavier when fuel weight is equal.
The high alpha of the SMT is affected by the gravity shift from additional fuel, not by a change specific to its FM iirc. Performs similarly to the 9-13 on low fuel. Gaijin didn’t go out of their way to limit it.
As I said earlier, I’m pretty certain the FM didn’t change much besides weight. I could check in my datamine from my phone if you want verification.
the biggest problem the extremetly nerfed aoa and r73 flare resistance. and the fm change is awful in sim mode… like when i turn off the fly by wire in my su27 in the dcs world… catastrophic in low speed…
It’s not “nerfed”. It’s pretty much accurate right now. The R-73 is a free kill with certain conditions, and extremely useful in a dogfight. You’re acting like it’s an R-60.
lol that was not the average F-16 player in that 3v1. That was a little below average and rather a strange encounter. None of them actually committed and kind of just flew up and orbited wide and never pulled the control fully back. Those were not the smallest turn radius the F16 is currently capable. They even avoided the head on and rarely fired anything.
Well damn, I wish that was the average F-16s I face in the SMT. For me It is almost like every time its players that knows exactly the limitations of the SMT, where they are and how to exploit them and know I am not fast enough to bug out.
I think it’s funny though, switching to the G and find people make the mistake in thinking I am an SMT and race over to commit. All confident and alone. You can almost see the moment they realized it was really not a good idea to chase this mig29 and now merged screwed tf up.
He duels predominantly. We reference air rb as measure of feasibility of any given platform’s fm.
Air RB requires high situational awareness as well as tactics and vying for dominant positioning just like duels. Just on a larger quickly changing multi-threat environment. Luck is a factor in all things. Skill is highly demanded overall to enjoy top tier consistently.
Pretty much, from what i read the 29 lacks a liiiiiil bit of performance like 0.5 more deg/sec while rating, it’s Very close to its IRL counterpart. The f16 is an arcade mode plane stuck in Air rb
I wouldn’t use that video as a showcase for the MiG-29.
Not only were the F-16 pilots braindead and probably able to be beaten with an F-104, you should have been dead/damaged twice but the Aim-9s failed to proxy fuse. Once at 0:20 when the missile pretty much flew between your vert stabs and again at 1:59 when the missile was inside your aircraft.
Idk, im still debating submitting a bug report, because I think itd be a good balancing factor seeing as gaijin seems allergic to fixing NATO radar missiles in any way, granted ive kinda sworn off making bug reports because 9/10 times gaijin just ignores them if they dont like what the sources say
It’ll also be a good balancing factor for the Su-27, which will likely be the best aircraft in-game when added and for a while afterwards, because it’ll have better flight performance, better missile loads, and better missiles than western jets because of gaijins liberal interpretation of eastern and western tech, to the advantage of western tech and detriment of western tech, as usual.
Oh 100%. But it’s a Russian-origin vehicle so there is no chance they will hold the same standard of realism to it. Maybe if it were in a minor nation tree.
The evidence Gunjob posted seems pretty conclusive.
Conclusive evidence is irrelevant, what matters is what gaijin devs think.
This has been proven time and time again, even in direct arguments on the forums with the devs, and is the primary reason I dont bother with bug reports anymore.