You see ignoring a good portion of the games history and also ignoring how much better Rafale is than anything else in the game…and the fact it’s going on the 1 year mark of being THE meta plane.
MiG-23 MLD meta lasted shorter period of time. F-14A meta was also shorter as well.
You’ve left out probably around a dozen other times where non-US and USSR nations have been meta. Heck you’ve left out some in fairly recent memory like the Gripen and the Mirage 2000 (the first truly 4th generation fighters added to the game).
No plane in the history of the game has been as dominant as the Rafale has and nowhere near the same length of time.
Ahhh yes, it’s justified that the rafale has been curbstomping everything in it’s path for 9 months with little to no effort, because “it’s only the 2nd time france gets the upper hand”.
Your logic is flawed, and it kills the already unstable balance of the game
not what i’ve said, Bug-report can and are made to correct things out,… but just because it’s a META aircraft it doesn’t need as much hatred as you guys gives (which for once is the first time there is as much hatred toward one plane)
They dont even need to nerf the Rafale, they just need to ungimp everyone else. Make the C5s an actual upgrade to the As and Bs, reduce the drag on the R77 and give the Eurofighter a proper radar and we have competition again
But ofc one plane having the best radar, best flightmodel and best close range missile is going to be broken
But the point is like for like bug reports for other aircraft that were submitted before the Rafale. Havent been fixed yet and yet the Rafale has gotten that fix. For example. The Rafale just got its empty weight reduced based upon reports submitted less than a month ago. And yet the Typhoon’s empty weight report submitted in the Dev server 9 months ago hasnt been fixed yet and now the Rafale has a higher TWR than the Typhoon even though the Typhoon always had the higher TWR IRL.
Thats the issue why people are mad. Its not just that the Rafale is curb stomping everything, its that everything else is getting ignored on the bug fixes side of things.
Heck, the Typhoon’s Cockpit HUD got squished 2 major updates ago and its still squished.
France never operated 8x MICA EM on the C F3. It was only ever done on the Indian Rafale. The first and simplest option would just be to reduce the C F3 to 6x MICA EM. Also means that when an F4 is added, its actually different to the C F3 because at the moment, there would be almost no differences between the airframes.
At the very least. there are a number of buffs for the A/B that would also impact the C5. Though there are sources showing the C5 had improvements to the seeker, but what improvements those were exactly are unknown
I don’t think that Rafale gonna be not META ever, unless some drastic changes to avionics, flight model or MICAs gonna happen. Stealth fighters will not change much in terms of BVR because missile is still ARH and it will still give you RWR ping that you can use to notch it, and there is literally no stealth aircraft that wouldn’t be detected or locked by modern AESA radar from the effective firing range of MICA. And next generation Fox-2s also won’t help the matter because, well, Rafale will get them too.
And the best ones as well which is why it’s gonna be utterly horrific to play. Mica ir at first and then eventually mica ir-ng which is literally amraam c-5 range with a imaging seekerhead
What will change is equal aircraft being added, such as the Typhoon and Gripen E.
(and when I mean “Typhoon”. I mean its buffed up to IRL performance and given all the same advantages the Rafale has been given, such as AESA, fully modeled HMD, HOBS, etc etc)