R-73 is OP when paired to a good platform like the mig29 at 12.7
Never said it was OP at 13.0, the most compressed BR in game.
You have IRCCM R-73 at 12.3 in the bison which also carries R-27R
You have IRCCM aim-9m at 12.3 in the GR.7
The bison is undertiered
The gr.7 is a slow jet without radar and no way to slave the missiles. Good dogfighter though, but sadly the game forces you to bring way to much fuel for your average match.
You won’t have any 2+ IRCCM missile loadout on a good and fast FM under 13.0 right now.
I wish Gaijin decompressed things so we could properly place the proposed mig29a loadout and also balance things like the Belgian F-16A
he has like 400 kills in it i think he’s pretty experienced in it. The mig29 fm for an average arb match is fine, it just zooms around the battle field slinging ers and going for kills around mach 1. Only in a 1v1 is where it falls off which isn’t arb
I dont believe so, I prefer the aim-54, im not commenting further on this
like you said, dogfighting doesnt matter.
And what does speed even do? speed only matters for BVR engagements - something an ERless mig-29 would be unable to do
Even the 29G (with ER and R73) struggles against the AV8, so how should one without ER compete in any way
ok, bring 1x Pylon of CMs
now you got 5x 9Ms and 150 single pop CMs (75 if you go 50/50 on flare/chaff)
meanwhile the 29 has 6x R73 and 30x pops of CMs (15x if you go 50/50 on flare/chaff)
Still dont see how thats fair
SPEED ONLY MATTERS IN BVR
A ER-LESS 29 DOESNT BENEFIT FROM SPEED IN ANY WAY AT THESE BRs
you tell me that the 9m is such a bad missile and yet i see multiple platforms at 13.0 doing way better than the mig-29g which gets 6x r73 while the gripen only gets 6x 9m
so the mig-29g with the r-27er is already doing worse than alot of the 13.0s you said would do worse than a mig-29 with r-73s and yet you cant come to the conclusion that a mig-29g with worse armament might could be fine at 12.7
Gaijin uses economic data, AKA SL and RP, and they rule out different players to make sure skill isn’t a factor.
Citing general KD which Gaijin does not use will not help the conversation.
Also omitting information isn’t cool: These all [except maybe 1C] have the same engine now.
Corsairs use to have vastly different performance in their engines and were updated within the last 2ish years.
Takes time for new data to show up when they’re rarely played due to not being eligible in events and dailies.
@Merf_HD
Speed is survivability, which you should’ve learned in late prop BRs.
In jet BRs speed and energy management and creation is everything.
If speed doesn’t matter why is F-15E 14.0 instead of 13.3 or 13.7?
If speed doesn’t matter why is F-104C 9.3 instead of 8.7? The Mig-17PF is the best dogfighter in that BR range…
Your posts have false accusations against others instead of discussing the points.
Speed matters for a lot more than BVR to be honest. Positioning, defense, running away, interception… By that logic biplanes would be fighting early cold war jets
but sure let me change the filter on statshark so it sorts them for SL earned and then post every 13.0 with more SL earned in here
it is almost like that Kills per Death is a metric to measure performance
but yeah lets just ignore the premium plane which have on average worse players does better than the Mig-29G
