I decided to C+P a reply that I posted on the ongoing “Line of Contact” dev server category, the premise is exactly the same, so in case you don’t get to reach this topic before the dev server category closes, you won’t miss anything anyway.
Yapping alert. TLDR: It's over boys, they're not adding anything else to the GE trash due to sweats.
First up, Startshark released new stats, showing interesting trends about November. One of which is the F-15C GE performance on its first half month of performance.
Some disingenuous individuals may say: “But Pyro, that’s some good numbers, the plane’s good.” And they might have a point, but first, check out the F/A-18C Late’s release performance back in March.
That’s triple the amount of games on release for a tenth of a difference in Kills per Death. It’s obvious there was more people playing the F/A-18C Late (obviously due to sheer novelty factor back in the day), including less skilled players than on the F-15C Golden Eagle that, apparently, has found a niche of skilled players, albeit lots of people underperform in it as far as the data I have gathered throughout this last three weeks.
A feasible counterargument may be: “B-but the Golden Eagle had less days to be played, that’s why it had less games played, right?”
Plain wrong. The Hornet was released with Hornet’s sting on March 18th, 2025., while the Golden Eagle was released on November 11th, 2025, having effectively more days during its respective month to be played by the playerbase.
In conclusion, the plane is cooked by stat farming (overepresenting good performance) and sweats. Its time to wait for the AESA F-15E or the F-15EX.
The F-15C Golden Eagle is officially done.
As a side note I’m leaving exclusively for this topic, this plane was a victim of the playerbase’s Gaussian function: both the best and the most clueless ones grinded it, and the good ones overrepresented the stats of the bad ones.
