Did you not read my post? I know it’s lengthy but it explains in-depth. No it’s not “handed around to anything Gaijin feels like” as that implies that HMD is handed on a selective basis.
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Plus it offers notable progression, but not utter dominance. It makes sense to have an aircraft 0.3 br higher to have a smaller tech progression than something with a 0.7 br progression (eg Gripen A → Gripen C), adding another Rafale later down the line (what we have now) would make more sense than what we got
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They are proven with the stand of Dassault / DGA with an f3r with 8 mica.
It was possible to have 8 mica with f3r.
Yes, “policy” in where Gaijin buffs already really strong vehicles should also be reconsidered.
There was absolutely no reason to buff the Rafale but they still did.
Do you have images/docs to show 8x MICAs on a French service F.3R?
Just for clarification, you mean like an expo stand at an airshow or something?
That policy has a name of “We’ll add stuff we want at times convenient to us, it might or might not be balance but who cares”.
I think about it this way. IF they wanted to add a version with all the good stuff but meteors, they could have went for F4, or F3R, or whatever export version etc.
However, they added plain F3.
A rule cannot be a rule if it’s going to be selective. Further, no matter how much people on here will get upset, Gaijin isn’t going to revert this rule and retroactively remove it, at best they will discontinue for future aircraft otherwise feedback on this matter is ignored.
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Yes that’s what he means, French Rafales have been shown at Paris Air Show events with the extra MICA pylons.
And F-14B has been shown, flown and later decommissioned with 9M, and yet here we are because something something balance.
Why does the same not apply here?
Rules can be reverted easily, especially if they’re concerning from the balance standpoint.
Rules like that can only be selective by nature if you want to avoid situations like this one for example, as buffing planes that suffer at their BR is vastly different from buffing already extremely strong planes.
These things can’t be black or white.
Loadouts are not a rule and is subject to balance consideration, HMD being tested is a rule not subject to balance consideration.
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Right, but so have other NATO jets with armament options that by war thunder standard would be deemed ‘ridiculous’ seen on display
At this point all they really have to do is finally add comparable aircraft in December. I will actually just lose it if we get something like the MiG-35 instead of say the Su-35, Ef2k T3, F-15EX etc.
It would also be nice if other advanced missiles got the same seeker as the MICA.
Except they aren’t, because Rafale is inherently unbalanced, and yet they haven’t applied your ‘rule’ anywhere over the last year
If that were true, said 14B in game would have had 9M. However, it does not.
Precisely, despite being the strongest aircraft in game at the moment, it got upgrades that it did not explicitly need and so badly threw the balance out the window that top tier is a one horse race at the moment.
But god forbid the Typhoons get SAL Brimstone 2s because that would be unbalanced
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Gaijin can discontinue this rule for aircraft in the future, but I do not see Gaijin discontinuing this rule and reverting it for the Rafale, it’s a pipe-dream. Also, we’re getting to the point that the F-15EX, Su-35, and J-10C will have a place in the game which is also where the Rafale F4 can join in, and the Rafale F4 does feature HMD that it used in-service.
So any further complaints about HMD is and will be pointless because:
- It is a rule that Gaijin is highly unlikely to discontinue
- It is a rule that Gaijin is even more unlikely to revert for existing aircraft
- The game is at a point where we could see the addition of Rafale F4 which used HMD and 8 MICAs in-service, unraveling attempts to nerf the Rafale.
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Oh and there’s just the fact that no ARH missile can really compete with the MICA because of how exclusively lethal it is sub 15 km. I really wonder what they are waiting for to apply the motor changes that got accepted.