Fair enough. The kills per spawn is very very close however, although kills per battles and winrates are still higher while ground kills per battle is also higher despite similar kills per spawn numbers.
Ground kills will bleed tickets in sim and with most experienced players playing on red side it will skew statistics against blue. Nimbaltarget covered this in F-15C GE video recently.
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The Rafale also has a LWR btw.
I think the higher KPS can mostly be attributed to the fact that the EFT can engage earlier than the rafale. While evading missiles from 15km away is supposed to be quite easy, my recent experience is that many games just have half of the teams wiped out in 15s from this first wave of missiles (where rafales can’t compete).
As for the higher KD, I think it’s also due to the fact that the rafales usually seem to play more aggressively to try and force a near WVR fight where they’ll dominate with their MICA, while the EFT, especially with its 180+º radar can be more confortable shooting and tracking from those longer ranges and gets in less dangerous positions.
I won’t argue about the rafale « being bad » however. Its still excellent, it needs to be played in little more intelligently than before
Between the typhoon aesa, su-30sm, and rafale. I think the rafale is still my best 14.7 but the others are very competitive.
What the rafale does very good is having a fantastic defensive capability while staying dangerous because of high off bore and acceleration from the MICA performance. And its harder to notch on top of that.
The su-30sm kinda does the same with the R-77-1 with the advantage of keeping TWS locks at notch angles but I find the rafale easier to notch or overall defeat incoming missiles. It might be a combination of the rafale being a smaller target, and being overall much faster and agile even at high altitudes where the su-30sm becomes a boat. The big missile count and the very wide FOV radar carries this jet.
The typhoon aesa is like a rafale for long range fighting. Works wonders when you have teammates but if multiple people attack you, you have a hard time using your aim-120s at HOBS. BOL chaff seems to be iffy, and the typhoon RWR has a cursed zoom where everything close to you get cluster together and you cant judge the distance of incoming missiles at shorter ranges. By consequence of both those issues the rafale is easier to defend with.
The typhoon aesa is the 14.7 that I get less kills per game on average I think, but I also don’t die often with it. I have some 6+ kill games but having 1 kill games is not that uncommon, Its a consequence of playing BVR at longer ranges.
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only the german ef gets the 9l/i
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Italy has it as an option too
Italian aesa euro gets it too. Pretty sure you can see that on WT wiki
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I’ve got like 1-6 kills per game with Rafale and 0-3 with F15 GE. So yeah… MICA is weak as hell xD