Probably from the nightmares it used to give them…
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The pl12 got nuked recently
Tbh, they should either fix it and sparrow at the same time or fix neither. The sparrow being able to be rolled so easily is egregious, as is the PL-12…
Sadly no sources what so ever for the data link missing
But given everything else regarding the f14d and f15a/c I would not be surprised if it was real
“Not a pound for air to ground” or air to air for the f14D
I can tell you the last time I died to an F-14 in any plane. It was about 2-3 weeks ago I think in Air Arcade, when I was in one of my US F-4’s head to head, at about 6km, I smashed him in the face with an AIM-7, and while I saw the missile launch, because he was at close range I assumed it was a sparrow so did my usual jink to dodge a now unguided missile, but it was a AIM-54 so it hit me. That was a lower BR plane and the only reason he got me is because I assumed he was using a different missile at that range, I literally had to make a dumb mistake, and that is the first time since about 3 months after the F-14A was introduced to the game I got shot down by a tech tree Tomcat in Arcade so that’s what, a year, 2 years?
Even in Arcade with the benefits of Arcade mode - they are a joke at this point at 12.3 and 12.7, only the Iranian one actually does anything and gets real play time. More so now that yeah, those 2 Su-30’s exist at 13.3, and can be brought down to 13.0 matchmaking in Arcade, and the MiG-29N in Japan with the export R-77’s at 13.0 being brought down in to 12.7 matchmaking, not hard when most of the tree is empty and way lower BR.
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This is nothing new for Gaijin, it was visible a mile away they were doing to do the same thing to the 14D as they did to the 4S.
It is absolutely diabolical they won’t change 1 or 2 lines of code to give it, if not 9Ms, at least 7Ps. They want $80 for each copy of a wholly digital vehicle but won’t make a dev do two minutes of work to properly represent it. They could have even pretended to care by renaming the AIM-54C and they didn’t. The laziness is astounding.
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+1 I have the Iranian Tomcat too. And when I see that there’s one in an Air Arcade match I take a couple R-27ER-1’s and knock them out. Maybe toss in an R-77 (RVV-AE) for good measure. Most of the IRIAF Tomcats try and fly high to lob Fakour’s, even they are a non issue against the Su-30’s. And the Tech Tree Tomcats are just a joke when I’m in my Su-30.
The premium Hornets are an an actual threat, but even then it’s only a slight threat to the Su-30’s.
I can’t wait to not play this because the F-14B exists
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yea the tomcats are flanker food once you dodge the ARH missiles
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Unfortunately - I missed the Iranian Tomcat by less than 100 points cause the server bugged out and didn’t count my last match, and didn’t have the GE to buy the incomplete stage. But when they show up in Air Arcade, a lot of them pulling it down to 12.3 cause it still has a 12.7 BR in Arcade, yeah all they do is lob Fakour’s from their spawn and hope their team is a good enough meat shield - seriously call BS on those things having 20G overload - which I at least now see they changed it from it saying it had 17 like the AIM-54.
Only up side is just like most top BR players, none of them have dogfighting skills so if I can find my way in close they’re cake to just gun down even if I don’t have a SARH missile to hit them in the face with. And as much as I can make the tech tree Tomcat’s work, even managed to nail some of the Su-30 players but again that’s more they severely lack skill beyond ‘ha ha I have R-77’s’ on maps with actual terrain, most of the time I might as well be using IR and SARH only - which on a 12.3 and 12.7 are the same missiles on 11.7 and 12.3 respectively. And even then just with how bizarre things go at times, most of my kills are still guns.
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Slopthunder is real 😢
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My issue with N001VE is the fact that its easily to get sneaked upon by enemy i would find by western radar easily.
I tend to avoid initial furballs, and keep looking for high alt targets first only then i switch to HMS, after the battle dies out and i need to si gle out targets.
I dont find MKK to do well in chaotic, highly manuevereing scenarios.
Point is, N001VE certainly isnt better than western radars.
F-16C has HMS as well and radar that actually gives you situational awarness.
Not familiar with 14D radar but if its anything like 18C early one, it will be very good radar for the BR.
i agree on that part fully
Biblical levels of greed
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F14D (R) is our only hope now.
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And it will sit for years in “Passed to the developers”.
Still waiting for a proper South African Air Subtree because 1 plane and 0 tech tree Helicopters (Squadron doesn’t count) is just sad
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What is the D(R)?
still a far better missile than the telephone pole sized phoenix that doesn’t turn and has super slow acceleration…
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I hope Gaijin gives the 14D the C+ Phoenix with the Mk. 60 booster in the dev.
The Mk. 60 should make it much faster.
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well until you can find the exact specs on it in two different documents it gets closed has not a bug
that above isn’t even enough for a 1% boost