Copefully
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Once it’s confirmed that the aim54c+ is getting a unique flight model and correct seeker I will pre order this 🤙🏼
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To be fair the nuclear thing is back
But continues the legacy of last time
Players please Nerf aa
Gaijin buffs aa
Players nerf aa
Gaijin buffs aa
Rinse and repeat
Recent thing they did was buffing the missile intercept range from 20km to 80km
Guess gaijin can’t stand the idea of something better than heli EC currently
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Just woke up! It seems we have won???
Not entirely, we got 9M’s and we got AIM-54+ (in name only right now) but still no AIM-7P or a TT variant.
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This is why they should add a tt variant of the f-14d like getting a premium that’s the better version of the tt one is so cringe. Same thing happened with the mig-29 sniper
We are making progress.
They could have made F-14B(U) a pack premium and F-14D a TT addition. That’s a win-win situation, and it would not lead to disappointments here.
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That’s honestly what they should have done.
well we are getting 54C+ and we got 9m’s so thats something
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Right now, they should buff 54C/C+ to justify the F-14B’s BR placement and F-14D’s addition.
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And if you would actually read, or comprehended what you read - you would know that I specifically said ‘Arcade’ - in which the F-14B/D are 12.7 BR. And where at 13.0 it was the best plane before AMRAAM’s and other FOX-3 missiles of that type were added to initially 13.3 and up planes, but now more and more 13.0’s have them.
And no - missiles are not the only thing in my head, I’m one of the few Arcade players in the upper BR’s that actually knows, or still understands, how to actually fly the plane to use guns. That last time everyone freaked out when for like a week when missiles were broken and no where near as effective - I was championing not fixing them cause for a change, things were actually fun cause missiles weren’t auto-death. But I understand how the game’s meta works, I understand how the game is played at the top BR in Arcade, as much as I absolutely hate it, but otherwise I don’t actually get to play the jets I occasionally want to.
The meta at 12.7 and up, because Arcade players tend to move the better stuff down a BR bracket for the edge it gives, is AMRAAM or equivalent ARH missiles, because they fire off the 2-12 missiles they have, then duck for cover while waiting for the in-air reload that can be as low as 40 seconds with a full ace crew. And in Arcade - we don’t have ground clutter modeled to help fool these radars, and notching doesn’t always work right - I know that from ‘Nuclear Thunder’ where having to play in Realistic rules all of a sudden all the stuff I did to dodge missiles that almost never worked in Arcade suddenly worked all the time. You play the F2A premium, or the Tomcat - even if you move them down a stage to 12.7, 12.3 or even 12.0 for the F-14A, your constantly seeing Su-30 premiums, who’s export R-77’s you just fire and forget, with the same or better performance as any SARH missile in the BR’s below but don’t need constant guidance. Where the AIM-54’s don’t compete, and head to head against an Su-30 in the F2A, he’s going to fire at least 1, if not more, of his ARH missiles at you and immediately go defensive to try and notch your SARH missile or head for cover while the only weapon you have requires you to fly in more or less a straight line at him to keep him locked, and hope you can maybe fool the missile at the absolute last second with countermeasures and a barrel roll - which usually doesn’t work.
Which is why in Arcade - seeing an F2A premium is rare, seeing the F-14A or B is rare, only ever the Iranian one, you might see some of the premium Hornets pulled down to 12.3 with AIM-9P’s, but not a ton cause they get hoovered up in to matches with Su-30’s that throw ARH homing missiles at them. That’s not what’s in my head - that is what I see every time I play high tiers in Arcade. Anytime I go to 12.0 or higher, where Su-30’s are pulled down to 13.0 matchmaking, or things like the Kfir C.10 at 13.0 pulled down to 12.7 so I see it in 11.7 planes with nothing but SARH or IR missiles vs ARH, which is worse when it’s one of the bigger, flatter maps where you can’t even use a mountain to shield from the missile - but those guys are betting too on not seeing the Su-30 premiums to bash the heads in on planes with worse missiles than them.
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Sadly neither VF-84 nor VF-103 flew the F-14D. It could still come as a semi-historical skin though!
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Can someone give me a summary of the changes between the AIM-54C and the AIM-54C+ (ECCM/Sealed)?
Sadness
Name
thats about it at least in game
i mean in irl