I’ll test it again soon
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A bug report will certainly be nice.
Lol there is always a few guys, but they get wiped out or wipe them out only to still get wiped out by the secondary wave over watching. This goes for both sides. Its literally a Banzai charge with no meaningful effect on the outcome of the match. They are learning though.
Before ARH, it is usually the side who wins the furball wins the match entirely on attritional losses of the opposing team.
Now there is no value in rushing the center even with superior numbers. There is plenty of ARH to go around for you and your teammates multiple times.
As of now the name of the game seems to be a learning process of how the missiles operate & everyone does their own thing. But people are learning not to stray too far from your main force but no overall coordination has been even attempted since I played yet.
It’s very fun and kind of intense not knowing if that RWR alarm is for you or another nearby.
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This a bad fk joke with the smt being 13.0.
Trash FM/ Not enough CM to schizo spam /
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I was putting this thought off for quite the while but i finally caved in.
We’ve all had that confusion in Air Sim when we see an F-15 or a MiG-29 but we cant tell them apart at range because they look so damn similar.
Well there’s more to that story.
Not only do they share similar silhouettes, but also they share similar T/W, size and overall air dynamics.
Granted the above stats isn’t exactly a source but i was looking for a quick comparison.
T/W is nearly the same (with weapon and fuel loads it will be).
Wing span, height and length are also comparable…
So why the ASTOUNDING difference in performance?
By all accounts of pilots from the GDR who flew the MiG-29 against western jets, they report CR combat successes.
So why is the MiG-29 FM in WT such a leaf?
I believe it should perform more like the initial MiG-29 FM or the current F-15 FM with a bit less AOA limitations.
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Pilots who have flown against the MiG 29 say it has similar characteristics and appearance to the F-15
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My argument exactly, the flight characteristics should not be like that of the current MiG FM which goes into LEAF-MODE after one turn… it should reliably perform like the F-15 in terms of energy retention and P/W. The F-15 can buzz around at Mach 1.32 in game.
I’d like to see a MiG-29 even reach that speed in a combat situation with the current FM.
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This interview for example
The flight model changes from patch to patch.
It’s a mix between incompetence and trying to balance the game.
When they released “Apex Predators”, the update that brought the f16 and the mig29, they poorly made both aircraft and the r73, the missile had irccm comparable to the aim9x and so they decided to remove it from the fulcrum, as a result, the mig29 sucked ass for the entire 1st week of the update until some brilliant dev came up with the idea of adding the infamous R-27ER to “balance” the game. After some time they updated the mig29 fm which made it pretty good and competitive against the f16, but they maintained the r27er, which made the fulcrum the best plane for like 3-4 months. Then in September they added the MiG-29 SMT with the r73 buuut nerfed all mig29 fms to oblivion and buffed the f16, i guess they did that because they didn’t want the mig to have the best BVR and WVR capabilities.
If the r27er never came to the game we’d probably have a better fm already, let’s just hope that they’ll rework the aircraft after some time.
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not really, it changes very visibly when it does. and the last major change i can remember is when they made it lose all its speed within one turn under mach 0.9-0.8
sad thing is, both the ER and the 29 suck ass rn…
owning to PD radar nerfs and FM nerfs respectively
hell even the R-73 aint doing as good as irl
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Absolutely, right now there’s 0 reasons to pick russia over usa in top tier, it’s “unbalanced” again, but imo that’s perfect because now more than ever there’s a NEED to rework both the flanker and the fulcrum, i’m almost 100% certain that they will do so after a while.
Let those poor migs burn for now, it’ll be worth it.
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issue is, they will look at the “super manoeuvrability” and say komrade Sukhoi can turn in a phone booth, hence it will turn in phone booth,
this will inevitably ruin the FM because they cant balance the two conflicting POVs of energy retention alongside the manoeuvrability. and since the pitch keys only do max 0/100 and not more or less near perfect rate speed pulls, this causes the falling leafs each match
sigh i do hope they fix this hell hole of top teir
It’s all we can do unfortunately, the rest is up for the devs
Check all comparable tests against the manual and see if it matches… If it does, there is nothing to change.
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he just gonna tell me to hurry with my report stuff dw - im getting to it asap, might start back into it tomorrow even - just had some more irl stuff that came up so couldnt get back to it as soon as i wanted haha
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The hero we needed.