So, Gaijin made a change to its stock loadout which changed the middle R-77-1’s to 2nd outer pylon and say it is to allow us to combine more weapons with them before researching R-77-1 modification.
The thing is, this actually takes away the total number at tier 2 and combinations at tier 2 and 3
So now, Tier 1 is unaffected because you get the R-27ET, totalling 6 missiles,
Tier 2 gets nerfed because you stay with 6 (2 R77-1, 2R27ET, 2 R73) missiles instead of 8 (same + 2 extra R73) that was possible before,
Tier 3 i would rather have my R-77-1 instead of R-27ER, not R-73 which is a close range weapon
Tier-4 not the goal of my post
Nor Su-30SM, bruh. It starts with 2 ARH missiles and continue with this until it get a proper research (T4).
Unless… you’re gonna complain about +2 IR missiles
But then it makes things worse for most feared AGMs (Kh-38) occupy 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10 position, so if the player grinded 30SM exclusively for those… now they have full Kh-38 load-out AND 2 R-77-1 (and mandatory 2 R-73)
Still better at long range, most platforms that can load it can be more efficient than a European house sized Jet fighter. And with the addition of the R-77-1, R-77-1 is basically a R-77, short range active radar homing missile, it didn’t make AIM-120B which is better at long ranges, any worse, if you can’t deal with this simply addition I can’t imagine USSR mains recieving only now their first battle rating 14.0 after almost one year without any new good addition.
I’ll let you in on a secret, but the AIM-120 in our game is also a close-range missile, and a very bad one at that. You won’t hit anyone at a distance of 50-40 km, you probably won’t even hit anyone at 30 km, because the missile was nerfed.
If you have an AIM-120 carrier, just go into a test flight and try to shoot down the farthest MIG-15, it’s at a distance of 20 km, you won’t shoot it down. The missile is not capable of covering such a distance.
I shot from a greater distance and hit, but that was at the time of release. Once, from 35 km, I was able to shoot down 6 planes. But that is very rare. Show me a fresh replay where you shoot down at least someone with an AIM-120 from 30 km.
