Have u grinded it in 2026 against it’s current oponent?
I prefer Su-30SM2 over this trash, at least it’s missiles have range.
When i try to get kills i always try to get the enemy in my NEZ, but no matter what they somehow beat the MICA by just flying away of it, it’s absolute trash, and the ones who believe it’s good for BVR are just wrong.
Say that to the 350km capable Irbis-E and it’s 240° tracking area it faces at the same BR.
No range, easily defeated by just notching (lol), almost nobody plays at close range to abuse that “insane close range pull”
Dominated over a year till now, now it’s trash compared to things with more modern radars and hell naw more and better missiles, 8 is now comparable to 6 if u know that almost everybody has 10/12 missiles as minimum.
Oh no, 2 planes now have a better radar. That must make it instantly trash.
There is only 1 missile that could be argued to be better than the MICA, which is R-77-1. All other missiles are still worse.
And no, AIM-120D didn’t suddenly become better than MICA lmao. It’s barely better than C-5.
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You do realize that theres a middle ground between “best radar in the game” and “trash”, right?
Just like every fox 3 with the added difference that it is literally objectively harder to notch a MICA compared to the other Fox 3s
Thats on you if you dont play to close the gap
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it is cuz everybody uses them.
tell me how many Su-30SM2s u see in a single match and come back to me
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i try but it’s hard when u have low wing rip speed + extremely close range Fox-3s that can’t even travel long distances (kinetically limited to 50km).
How is making 2 kills a game bad, especially if you’re new at the BR? How is that an indicator of the “rafale massively underperforming”?
Its just not blatantly op anymore with other jets also getting good AESA radars and yes, a lot of them have more ordinance and fox3s that have longer range but way worse close range maneuverability. Mica is still the top tier fox-3 with the best seeker.
The top tier meta being more balanced now because the rafale -after a year of absolute domination- got counterparts with similar abilities and situations where they are even better than the rafale shouldnt be a reason to instantly cry about how the Rafale is not op anymore?
you can “just notch” literally every Fox-3 in the game, what is your point here.
The meta is still close range performance over long range performance, the enemy has less time to react + missiles can come from more unpredictable angles.
MICA is the best Fox-3 in the game, enemies just have the same Fox-3 count or more while on worse airframes and their missiles being worse.
Just because it isn’t the top 1 anymore does it mean it is trash, stop exagerrating
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wanna see my most normal match on it and tell me if i’m wrong?
Good luck
Dude the theoretical max range of the MICA shouldnt matter at all. If you hit someone at that distance theyre either a bot or alt tabbed
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I told you I just grinded the J10C which is clearly worse and fights at 14.7 lobbies 90% of the time. You act like starting with a 2x fox3 loadout is an exclusive pain to the rafale
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PL-12 is amazing, it’s the perfect balance between something like an AIM-120 and a R-77.
Rafale feels way worse, and i would be really excited to play chinese toptier jets, they look so good.
the difference is that any other aircraft has missiles that 1. can actually hit and 2. have very good maneuverability.
Su-30SM/2 starts with 2 R-77-1, which are way better than the MICA-EM cuz it has the most similar maneuverability to the MICA paired with really good range for a missile like the R-77-1 (R-77M would have less issues travelling a really long distance in no time thx to it’s removed grids).
max range can be reached by just outrunning the MICA, it will late or soon end up travelling 50km and auto-destructing itself while the enemy aircraft didn’t even need to chaff it.
i still remember i got killed by an AIM-120C-5 i was outrunning cuz i couldn’t get it out my rear. i was slowing down to LAND IN THE AIRFIELD and the missile somehow travelled almost all it’s 120km of range and hit me.
The mica is even better. Even the extra range of the PL-12 over the mica (which isnt much) is negated by the rafale being much faster. Everything else the mica does considerably better, turning, acceleration, seeker…
You gotta be trolling here. The mica is literally the most reliable fox3 in game
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i still prefer something with range, playing with the MICA-EM feels like using a radar guided R-73.
R-77-1 better at almost everything, literally only downside compared with the MICA-EM is modelled seeker and maneuverability which isn’t that bad compared to it.
R-77-1 is the 2nd best missile after the mica. The main reason is the mica’s seeker, but apart from manouverability the mica is also faster accelerating.
What make sthe R-77-1 the 2nd best and better than the rest is that it has R-77 manouverability and AIM-120C range with one of the largest warhead payload to boot
Rafale is still not better than it’s current competitors.
Su-30SM2 is superior, Typhoon (AESA) is mid, maybe worse than Rafale by a huge margine due to the AMRAAMS, but they’re still better than it in many aspects.
the now rank IX planes it faces are way better than it, mainly the Su-30SM2 which is common to see at toptier for “obvious reasons” Gaijin doesn’t want to fix or smth.
and this only applies for me cuz i’m stock grinding it, but it doesn’t have napalm to make the grind easier by bombing bases, and 6x250kg bombs aren’t enough to take down a single base.
Sounds more like a skill issue. The times I die to a AIM-120 I can usually track back to either a mistake I made or the enemy having better positioning.
The Rafale is still easily better than the J-10C, J-15T, PoBIT, Mech EFTs, Su-30SM/MKM and Super Hornets and it’s not even close. Hell it’s probably also better than the F-15C GE as well, but at least some very weak arguments can be made in favor of the F-15C GE.
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