Honestly so far the plane has been flying and performing really well on the dev server. Going to be a monster in ground RB against pretty much any plane. Need to see where the FM is and gets finalized versus stuff like the Rafale and EFT in low speed fights (it feels like it easily beats the AJ and Gripen tier already)
Ill be honest i almost never use hmd on f-15j for AAM-4s only for AAM-3 one wll i suck at top tier two because it can be confusing to me sometimes i love ACM so this looks VERY nice to me
I can tell you that right now the Rafale/EF-2000 wins
I just hope they fix those ASM-2 and allow for ground use
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Honestly at the 13.7 BR I’m not sure it needs HMD, which is good because even with the prototype found there is not enough information to report it.
I hope we could see the Shimadzu HMD on a future late ADTW aircraft alongside other prototyped upgrades like the F-X radar, but I don’t think we’ll see it now.
Well yeah thats pretty obvious theres not gonna be many planes that can beat them
kinda wish we got AAM4Bs but i can understand why we dont have them although they did just add Aim-120C-5s
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Was that after testing? I’m curious to see what the results will be once those jousters get their hands on it
Because if we’re going by Block 10 F-16A vs EFT, it was close and depending on how much better the F-2 is versus the Block 10 F-16A, it might be an even match for EFT or close the gap further
I just took it for a test flight and flew around a little, flys like an F-16C
Its not winning any dogfight vs F-16 Block 10
I’ll report it later, when the biggest “wave” of Reports and Forum / Discord posts is over.
However, yea AAM-4B makes sense, as we are now getting the (currently) latest possible service version of the F-2A too.
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AAM-4 have decent HOBS performance, having no HMD with those is a shame since it puts you at a big disadvantage in a 1v1 fox3 joust at short/medium ranges
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It flew better than the F-16AJ for me, especially at low speeds, so anecdotal is anecdotal I guess. Will have to see when it gets properly tested
Is there any BOL pods for extra flares or is current flare amount still WIP? Also having 4+6 missile loadout would be nice to have with current top tier meta.
F-2’s looking good.
No HMD means I can ACM spam far easier.
Excellent TWS capability, with lock target spamming being great.
Good acceleration.
Good speed.
Meta sustained turn rates from 400 - 1100kph IAS.
ASMs.
Looking amazing.
I will not comment on bugs because those are obviously going to be addressed. Any posts implying otherwise is obviously wrong.
Its a bigger but lighter F-16C and more powerfull, but its not better than the F-16AJ in a dogfight
I’ll maybe try and make a report based on what’s known about the CRL and images of the F-2s pylons specifically.
But as others already pointed out that this might simply turn into Gaijin removing the ASMs there instead if I’m not very careful with it, so I’m not sure if it’s worth the risk. I also couldn’t guarantee that proving the pylon can use it is even enough, since even if it can there’s a possibility it’s only provisional and might need additional changes such as software to actually use them, so this really depends on what Gaijin counts as acceptable.
It doesn’t work now so how you could evaluate its effectiveness?
Ah, I see you’re just making a blanket statement, okay
Sounds like we’ll have to wait for testing to get a conclusive answer from people that actually know how to push these planes to the limits of WT’s game engine
The F-2A rates at 19.9 - 22+ degrees per second on current dev, so yeah they’re just wrong.
Do you have the F-16AJ and the F-2A on the dev? I am free to show you how it would get clap by the F-16AJ in about 10 mins