I’ve never had problems with the radar, but I haven’t flown mine a lot yet, mostly used it in test flight and customs lol
Based on how difficult to counter them from my experience, it seems to work fine
I used it to grind out most of Japan’s top tier and during that time the radar would lose lock every second no matter the conditions. You’d lock a guy flying straight at you at 500m and fire your 7M and watch it just go dead off the rail because the radar would lose lock for a split second then re-lock, that would happen over and over again until you stopped locking that target.
Drove me mad trying to use it, I’m not ashamed to say I actually swapped out the 7M’s for bombs and hit bases with it to grind.
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I feel like that’s just a SARH missile thing, as I’ve had this happen on all kinds of planes
Even had plenty of times where the missiles would straight up go for a different plane lol
@Smin1080p_WT can you comment on what rank we can expect Gen 5 to be when they come to game?
Will rank 10 be added
Yeah it happens with a lot of planes but at the time I had only experienced that issue with the F-2A. But now it seems to be an issue on most planes relying on SARH missiles.
Worst was it happening on the JA37C at the end of the F-16XL event. Was so easy grinding the first few stars with it but then on the 7th star I couldn’t hit a single SARH shot on even the easiest of targets. Remember having an F-5E climbing to meet me and I watched my missile just fly right on past like it had something else better to do.
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Huh rank 10 the Japanese haven’t even got a domestic rank IX yet lol
Honestly I don’t think Rank 10 is needed yet. There’s still so much space in Rank 9 to put 5th gens into.
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I’m sitting on like 500k RP of mod bonuses 😆, I think the RP requirements go down when a new rank is added and I’d be sad if my bonuses went away
I remember logging in before and the mods being auto researched after a change Gaijin made and the bonus being automatically applied to some random vehicle I didn’t care about in the TT
SARH missiles just doing whatever they want has been a thing for as long as I’ve been playing.
Some missiles and radars seem to be a bit more prone to that happening, but I can’t tell why that would be and what exactly causes this to happen.
Funnily enough, this phenomenon has gotten me a good amount of kills while using the MiG-25 in NE lol
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We just got Rank IX 😭 No need for a whole new rank for just 5th gen when it’s at most 3 different 5th gen aircraft in any nation
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What being a CM does to a person, youve aged considerably. Smin got some city miles after this job
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a husband
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Hi Smin,
As you may remember last patch you indicated that the Challenger ready rack report would be reviewed by the devs, but it seems plans changed and this didn’t occur.
Therefore, I was wondering if the devs have had a chance to review these reports or if they plan to do so soon?
Thanks!
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Yeah for most they’ll end up with an F-35 and that’s it, save for China with the J-20 and J-35 and the US with the F-22 and F-35A/B/C.
Even then just looking at the US as an example there’s plenty of room for all 4 of their 5th gens to go into rank 9, even room for a few more 4.5 gens to help bridge the gap.
(BR’s are just placeholders they mean absolutely nothing)
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Will always cringe at the F-15EX being in the Strike Eagle line 🫠
Where else would you put it?
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Beneath the F-15C GE. The aircraft it’s meant to actually replace?
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Nah I think it’s the right fit behind the E. Yes IRL it is going to replace the C eventually but it’s 2-seat (like the E) and carries a lot of air-to-ground munitions (like the E).
Also it gives line 5 something at Rank 9 otherwise without it it will be capped off at the E (or E RMP if they decide to add that as a TT addition).
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