Good: fast, high CMs and magic 2s
Bad: worst radar missiles in the game.
You need all the CMs as the RWR is garbage.
Terrible FM for dogfights, even a phantom slaps it.
Costs real £££ for one of the worst planes around… has 1 trick which if you just dont give the f1c your ass … its completly useless.
Not worth even for half price.
Well that’s how it is, there are pros and cons. If you play it for its strengths, it can do pretty well. The flight model is fine imo as long as you dont overcommit and arent out of position, yes it loses speed and recovers it slower below 700km/h but if you avoid getting yourself in such situations you are fine.
I don’t go on dogfights against Mig-21s for example. The F-4 aren’t that much of a problem to be honest, they are flying buses.
Yes the radar missile sucks but I take the gun pods instead.
The RWR is shit, but all I need is just a warning I am being tracked/something is fired and I’ll look to the general direction, the bountiful CMs take care of the rest.
I got it half price, definitely worth it, I grinded almost the entirety of the french tree with it.
Edit: I have to admit, that my performance with it is due to really sweating with it at times and locking in hard. An 11.7 BR for it would also be reasonable, but hardly anything below it. The JH-7 at 11.3 is somewhat similar with the 2x magic 2s but on paper it seems to have much worse FM, with almost twice the weight, less max speed.
Terrible FM for dogfights, even a phantom slaps it.
I don’t think any F-4 Phantom player in the right state of mind would be willing to turn close against something that has Magic IIs bruh.
Kfir Canard is a joke. The F1C is okay
Its still a problem. A lot of planes suffer around BR 12.0. It need a decompression.
Mirage Magic 2-s are good, but bad flight model, bad radar, no hmd, and almost always uptiered…
magic 2 go for flares now like crazy… takes zero skill since even full afterburning planes pop 1 flare and they are good…
I’ve got it and so far I’m at 127-323 so not too bad. I admit it’s a challenging jet to fly if your team melts, but it’s still adequate in your average RB game, the strat I found that works consistently is to fly redline in wide circles looking for targets that are distracted and chopping them off using your two magics and your gun.
The 530F is mediocre but it works well against people busy defending against teammates and it’s surprisingly great in rear aspect?
In terms of dogfighting it’s a complete pig but the slow speed can work in your advantage and give you an overshoot, you can do a hail mary and sit on your engine and let your aim save you, if your aim is bad however… game over.
Also I feel like the guns are slept on, even if you end up being bait and get zero kills you can still kill a boat load of ground units and rake in the moulah, this thing is an insane money printer.
If you meet an F15 with aam3’s youre completely fucked though, no clue why they lowered it.
I agree, I picked it up in a bundle a while ago and think it’s a very good plane, the only down sides are the RWR and the radar missiles are really sensitive to chaff due to being a pulse seeker, but on the flip side you have near unlimited CMs, cracked IR missiles, excellent guns and a decent enough air frame (typical delta with the high speed bleed in turns).
Dumb decision based on their refusal to put the SU-30 premiums up, which should have been done before the max BR increase, never mind after it.
rwr on the f1c is genuinely a specimen lol, the FM is alright but if you have to fight an f16/f18/f15 you’re royally fucked, JH7/J7E you’re also cooked, the rest is somewhat doable if you know what you’re doing.
So i did some research after posting and apparently the 530F does reject chaff, strictly rear aspect which is… interesting shall we say (This is just reposting something I’ve seen online, I did not test this myself)
most people dont play it over the premium but the f1ct fixes this