I’m not overly experienced in Soviet/RU planes, so i’m probably not the best person to ask, but every time I have played my 29SMT since Fox-3 were added… it’s been a pretty awful experience lol.
Honestly, I just really don’t understand what i’m supposed to do with it. If you take it high - the Eagles and now EF’s will bully the living daylights out of it. If you stay low, the Falcons / Gripens / EF’s / J10 / Mirages will rip it to shreds.
Even deciding what missiles to carry conflicts me. R-77’s are the only reason this thing is at the BR it is, so it feels wrong to not bring 4-6 of them. But R-77 is one of (If not the?) weakest top tier Fox-3. Whereas comparatively, 27ET is the best LR-IR ingame, and R73 is the best SR-IR ingame.
So what do you do lol? If you play to its IR strenghts… you’re basically just an over BR’d MiG-29G. If you play with R77, You’re accepting being disadvantaged to everything you face, and if you take a hybrid 2x27ET / 2xR77 / 2xR73 load, it feels like you don’t have enough of any one thing.
I put my RU tree on ice until they get some more competitive aircraft.
Top tier has been slop for me since the F-4E, I’ve only went out of my way to unlock the Tornado GR.1 and JH-7 just for GRB which left me high and dry when the Su-25SM3 dropped (and later Su-34) and top tier lineups required top tier fighters or you frequently get rolled by Kh-38s with no real way of fighting back.
It’s not helped by Air RB just not being fun or immersive anymore, 8.0+ not being very good in terms of balance and stock 12.7+ aircraft can’t be grinded out in Air Assault since they’ve been excluded from match making since March iirc; so absolutely no way to grind essential mods like Chaff without GE or eating **** for a few dozen games.
Hell
I’m still working on a practical key bind set for controller since there’s a billion controls required for top tier jets
Edit: Not real, says made in India on the bottom :P going to hit up my local surplus store when I get back home though.
Edit two: Looking at real ones, it looks pretty identical to real ones, can’t say for sure though, maybe someone just stuck a sticker on the bottom of it from something else. In real images don’t look galvanized.
Is HMD wildly bad/inaccurate sometimes for anyone else?
Sometimes it works fine for me (in the Mig-29A), but other times it refuses to lock a plane a few km away that I’m chasing. Other times it would rather lock a friendly 10km away than an enemy 5km away.
Ah, you got to love markerless game modes and A.I planes that are literally on the enemy team taking off with you. Later on, I was intercepting B-57s as america in vietnam
