I can agree, but the F16 is one of the best airframes in the game especially for DF, sure, but I’m not looking at it from just carrying 12 missiles perspective, the F18E is the same way and it carries a few more missiles, the F15 as soon as you get into a merge at 14.3, you lost, it’s a flying brick as soon and you hit the aoa button, you lose every bit of your speed you had, the F16 has amazing energy retention, I haven’t gotten to play the F18 yet
Doing a turn and burn or a 180 degree turn in a F15 below 900 MPH causes you to go down to below 450 MPH, that is awful
You don’t have to waste the extra 6 missiles you can just keep them on your F15 and you’ll just lose quicker in a DF cause you wanted to hold that extra weight
I completely avoid getting into DF at all when I play the F15, it’s not worth it, I’ll just go climb away and try and shoot top down
I mean it adds like 2 and half seconds to turn time with 12 missiles(about .2 seconds per missile), I haven’t played the F18E yet so I can’t really speak on it, but it’s flight performance can’t be that bad
They claim to limit weapons systems of vehicles for balance when THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE BATTLE RATING SYSTEM IS TO BALANCE VEHICLES BASED AROUND AUTHENTIC WEAPONS, SYSTEMS, AND STATS
But in lieu of expanding BRs and decompressing or reworking the system, Gaijin will instead do mental gymnastics, leave entire modes to die (naval, especially coastal vessels), and straight-up lie to their community in the bug report forums to avoid doing either.
I wish they were more consistent with their logic. Its why they get accused and slandered all the time.
I do strongly doubt they would be able to give a consistent response that doesn’t contradict itself when explaining armament choices between the Iriaf, yak-141, the old mig29s, f-14D, premium Su27s etc… (the only non contradictory response they have is “it’s for balance”)
But balance really wouldn’t be a problem here, it could easily be moved up or down based on its weaponry.
Which is why they are getting booed so bad, because it just feels off, it feels biased and ill-intented.
The only ones that agree with them on this specific instance are plants, or people with ulterior motives, or just total trolls.
No, these are just people who don’t care about missle’s and enjoy the plane. Therefore, it is obvious that it does not matter to us what it flies with, even with 1 gun, we will still enjoy it. We like the plane itself, not its weapons.
