Premium F/A-18C unnecessary asymetry

[Sternlos]

I was being a bit funny, i don’t know much about technical side of things but I’ve seen people saying its about 10% better in game performance wise not sure what the truth is there.

About those planes, they all sit at their BRs because of the missiles they carry and not flight performance or things like CM count. There aren’t any planes in game with 9m/r73 or equiv below 13.0 with a good FM, and the planes that are unfortunate enough to have these things + bad BVR kit get shafted into 13.0 and power crept by current compression.

F/A 18A sits at one of the most favorable BRs in the entire game, so im not sure why it matters 7ms are identitical to 7f, you don’t want it getting better missiles and moving up to 12.7. A-10 are all at BRs where they can’t bully things with their missiles not fm or CM, F14 are the only planes with fox 3 below 13.0 sure they aren’t great, but they are still fox 3s. If you gave them 9m they immedietely shoot up to 13.0 where they are outclassed even harder and the 9m won’t make up for the BR jump and worse MM.

If you want the swiss f18 nerfed, you give it 9m, and move it to 13.0 which is a bad trade, it can’t go up because its faster and has more CM. The game is full of planes at the 12.7+ BR which have planes which are just direct upgrades of it sometimes even in the same TT at the same BR due to compression. Even below there again you have stuff like who wants to fly an f4j vs f4s, even more nitpicky or sim dependent examples like mig 23 ML et al vs MLD, or the examples in F5 family.

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@Sternlos

About those planes, they all sit at their BRs because of the missiles they carry and not flight performance or things like CM count.

Incorrect, if that was the case the F-14B and F-16A would not be at the BRs they reside at.

@Sternlos

There aren’t any planes in game with 9m/r73 or equiv below 13.0 with a good FM

I guess the F1C does not exist then.

@Sternlos

F/A 18A sits at one of the most favorable BRs in the entire game, so im not sure why it matters 7ms are identitical to 7f

Because it was at a lower BR to begin with while only sporting 7Fs, it received 7Ms as a reason to go up in BR, yet, the 7F to M is functionally identical, thus the “benefit” it got ord wise from moving up was moot.

@Sternlos

A-10 are all at BRs where they can’t bully things with their missiles not fm or CM

Yet other options with the same superior missiles and better FMs exist at lower BRs, or are we going to forget that the SU-25s exist?

@Sternlos

F14 are the only planes with fox 3 below 13.0 sure they aren’t great, but they are still fox 3s.

The AIM-54 is a joke in game, anyone who considers it a valid missile over the AIM-7 is willingly gaslighting you. It is only effective against AFK or extremely dumb players, the Fakour 90 is a different story. However, gaijin conflated the 54 to be the same as the Fakour when they nerfed the tech tree F-14A and B, when in reality the 54 is so vastly inferior its not even a contest.

There is a reason only the persian cat is played regularly now.

@Sternlos

If you gave them 9m they immedietely shoot up to 13.0 where they are outclassed even harder and the 9m won’t make up for the BR jump and worse MM.

The F-14B is 13.0, its has needed 9Ms for god knows how long but has not gotten anything in consolation for it’s current BR, its hot garbage.

@Sternlos

If you want the swiss f18 nerfed, you give it 9m, and move it to 13.0 which is a bad trade, it can’t go up because its faster and has more CM.

Ok cool so you have not actually read the OP at all, thank you for clarifying this. And no, going faster and having more CMs is something that can effect BR, otherwise the F-15C MISP would not be 13.7 while the F-15E is 14.0.

Both aircraft have the same air to air loadouts, the only difference between the two is the radar and engine performance, and of course the A2G options but as you said, such is irrelevant in ARB.

@Sternlos

The game is full of planes at the 12.7+ BR which have planes which are just direct upgrades of it sometimes even in the same TT at the same BR due to compression.

There isn’t a direct upgrade premium of the same vehicle currently sold in another tree at the same BR and for the same price.

@Sternlos

Even below there again you have stuff like who wants to fly an f4j vs f4s, even more nitpicky or sim dependent examples like mig 23 ML et al vs MLD, or the examples in F5 family.

Cool irrelevant to the actual situation as the ML and F4S have no superior premium duplicates in other trees, their counterparts are present within the normal tech tree of that nation and are attainable without paying money.