Next Major Update - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 1)

Not if everyone gets their equivalent missiles.

It also heavily depends on what Gaijin chooses to do with their IRCCM. If they model them correctly and actually give them an imaging IR seeker, we could be in serious trouble.

However, if Gaijin does not add IIR to AAMs, they could simply limit IRCCM to Gate-Width and Suspended Tracking (like the Stinger) for all next-gen IR missiles. That would be much more balanced, at least until they update CMs to be more effective.

Typhoons major weakness is the Radar
and it’s 9M
and that it doesnt bleed speed so you normally merge too fast and die.

If Typhoon was to receive IRIS-T I would carry 6 of them and 4 120s.

Countermeasure overhaul has to happen or these systems will not perform anywhere near what they should. I can already see a 15km ASRAAM shot being single flared by a Su-35

But uh, these missiles have a no-espape zone, wouldn’t that be broken?

All missiles have considered none escape zones, Gaijin doesnt model them.
You cant just fly near the ground and expect an 120 to miss.

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They would, especially considering that every match eventually ends up in a furball, won’t be fun to die 90% of the times to some of those missiles in a 16v16

Yeah I’m afraid the more top tier will progress up the worse it will get as you’ll get nuked by more and more op missiles and it will become lottery to survive the beginning of the match
And there’ll also be less and less diversity the more you go up

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Then you need to consider changing the game, reducing team sizes and restricting maybe even payloads.

Yep, as long as maps stay the same, but missiles get better, defending with all those missiles going around the map will be comically unfunny

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f15ex launching a gazillion rocket-boosted poles at you gonna be wild

Yeah that side of things means everyone dies.
Especially when they add 120Ds and R-77M, Meteors etc

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just multipath

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That strategy might not work forever, metas don’t last

Thats a mechanic which will have to go and it wont save you from a 120D dropping on you perfectly vertical

Goes into multipath
80m tree:

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Multipath might even get lower in the future, and power poles coming from a perpendicular angle still splash dmg you. Best bet are maps with better terrain cover, where evasive maneuvers can be more effective.


scale of trees, last one is average tree in air RB

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AMRAAM C5? No shot. Without sth like full upgrade to all other ARH as well, aka MICA PL12 cause I think R-darter is pretty finished at this point.

Those were in fact R73s.

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Why would they use 9M on a near static platform (compared to jets).