Gaijin just loves USA most, since it is the richest large country in the world that spends the most $$ in the game, change my mind. Thats why they made the SMT come with 60 flares and a garbage FM while buffing F-16s to UFO levels without a reason. They didnt even bother to give the SMT its 10 KGF so its technically a worse engine than series 2 right now lol. There is no other explanation. Its just business. SMT in gaijins eyes is food for F-16s so that americans can feel good and buy the F-4S/F-5C to grind it.
Just enter a match at 10.3, entire teams are F-5Cs. It is USA vs everyone.
When SU-27 comes out you can bet it will be a disappointment full of issues and problems and the F-15 will be the destroyer of worlds.
It’s simple economic incentive combined with slow response.
For now, Gaijin has swung the meta towards the US. They know people will buy US premiums because of this (why do you think the F-4s and F-5c weren’t on sale?). Then they’ll swing it back to RU to get MiG-23ML sales.
İt took them 2 months to give SMT extra flares lmao. When it could be done in 1 day. İt shouldnt take 2 months to model the flare pods. Took them 2.5 months to change engine , and still haven’t added the tiny 10KGF how hard can it be?
R-73 is still braindead, taking too wide turns and not catching the target because it took the longest route possible , or spinning out of control.
R-27ET sensor can’t even lock a full afterburning F-14 front aspect at 11 KM , when it should be much higher ranges than that.
Like I said, slow response combined with an incentive not to. (Also Gaijin can’t code missile PIDs we already know that, see literally every IR missile in the game at close range)
Once Gaijin decides to throw it back to the Soviets (Probably with SU-27 since 6x R27ER or possibly even R77 is going to be meta defining) they’ll see their fixes added.
You’ll see , Su-27 will be artificially hampered, it will lose to an F-16 in 1 and 2 circle, and they won’t let it carry full load. İt’s never the American planes that don’t get their loadout.
Mig-29 had to use garbage worse than trash R-60s for a whole year.
I still HATEEEEEEEE mixed matches , kills the vibe , fighting identical planes isn’t fun , what’s fun is the asymmetry. Also I think GAIJIN does this so people don’t realise how oppressive the US teams would be at top tier AİR RB. İf US fought everyone else (because there are so many us players) people would see how high WR USA is
They had like 90% wr on apex predators launch day. 12 f16s insta GE’d (probably spaded with GE as well) against hordes of 23MLs and maybe after 1 week, 1-2 mig29s with a broken FM, radar, and shit ordenance
USSR didn’t have any rank 8 CAS so they said screw it have 2 questionably useful a2g missiles instead of adding something that would actually be capable of CAS. There must’ve been SOMETHING they could have added for USSR CAS at rank 8 but nothing goes together better than Gaijin and glaring tech tree omissions
There is a 110% chance the F-14 was only released because they wanted to capitalize on Top Gun
More like adapted, the F-14 was introduced into a game that was wholly unready for it from the top down
As far as I’ve been able to determine they never actually made a home-grown targeting pod for the SMT? I’ve heard that one might have been fitted with a French system but let’s be honest getting your targeting system supplied by a NATO nation was never going to go well.
How did they plan on actually aiming the KH-29TD (or whatever it was called IRL) on the SMT?