I agree completely. It would be much healthier for the game if things were like that. But we can only pick up the pieces from the devs mistakes, not prevent them. So the only ways forward I see are either buffing long range missile seekers or nerfing MICA (a mix of both would probably be the fairest, slight buffs to others and slight nerfs to MICA) to allow for other aircraft with weapons designed for distance to shine.
Unfortunately for MICA range, it seems the devs or the game engine are just incapable of modeling the weapon correctly enough to actually perform well beyond ~15 to 20km.
After 600 games of EF and now using a working raf with full loadout (2 missiles while spade and then radar broke as soon as i got 8 mica unlocked)
Its not even close. The Alpha testing radar is so bad on the EF, like one of the worst iv used in any jet.
Around 75% win percentage in raf is a joke, alot of games while broken radar aswell and still so high . If EF is 14.3 the Raf is 15.0 or more. Didn’t realise it was this OP
If they actually modeled Aim-120A/B right, let alone C5s. I would not want any new BVR missiles. C5s would be good enough (though not the equal to a PL-15 from what little I know)
But given they either cant or wont… Meteors are looking rather good at the moment
Wow, yeah, that’s a lot of balance. Look how Mica just looks at the chaff and thinks “fuck it,” but an AIM120 or R77-1 just becomes a piece of trash with some chaff. It’s a good thing this thing is balanced according to some, imagine if it wasn’t?
Yeah that’s the better angle gating. The notch area is the same but MICA needs you to be faster and a greater change of direction to defeat the angle gating
Still no clue why the MICA is the only missile that is allowed to have the improved seeker despite bug reports being excepted for other missiles like the AIM-120…
and maybe because Devs don’t really care,…
i mean, it took me 3 years to get a Radar and CCIP/CCRP on-board Etendard IVM, using primary sources,… so it might be depending on the internal Gaijin process (unless the process is that any Devs choose on what he’s working on,…)
Far as I know there’s no rhyme or reason to their method of determining what to fix next. Schizophrenic people would complain that they have some sort of bias, but they need to get a grip on reality. The only pattern we have observed is that there is no pattern to observe.
ok,… and apart having a childish comment 2 weeks later,… what do you bring to the conversation, then?
i can be a fanboy as much as everyone here is about their own vehicules being bullied,…
but exchanging insults doesn’t help,… be it for the debate, the issue, or the solution,…
and by the way,… shall i remember you (again), that i was for gaijin to add an Earlier standards (C F.2.2 and M F.1) of Rafale instead of the current one?
But since you wanted to insult me,… let’s talk about your jets aircrafts (from rank5 to 8), that you’ve played:
→ in your top 30 played : only 5 of them got Positive/OR/Even Kill/Death ratios
→ in your top 5 KD : only 1 got a KD ratio over 1.5 (1.51 on your MiG-23MLD, an aircraft considered one of the best at it’s BR so far)
→ the KD ratio average based on those 30 aircrafts (excluding Ar234C because the 6/71 KD on it was too low, and i took the 31th for the calculation)
K/D ratio = 0.84321
K= 3910 kills
D= 4637 death
Spoiler
Meanwhile, with similar parameters, i stand with:
→ 28 aircrafts with positive KD
→ 22 of them are superior to 1.5 KD
→ average KD is 1.9159
Spoiler
Sources of data is Statshark.net (at 21h00 the 6th december 2025)
SO: next time you want to comment,… here is a common checklist for you:
1- don’t insult (against the Rules by the way)
2- bring facts over ragebait
3- don’t mess with people you don’t have any clues on what they’re thinking,…
4- if you feel so overwhelmed by one aircraft, it’s not necessarly that you face OP aircrafts,… but most likely that you don’t know how to use your own.
EDIT Post report: He’s insulting me of being a “fanboy”, without any proofs,… and i shall let it slide?
i’m accused of fanboying over one single aircraft, because i’m supposedly having the greatest time of my life in the game thanks to that aircrafts?
i proved that those accusations are unfounded.
i can prove it further: Rafale C F.3R doesn’t belong within my top 30 Jet aircrafts played, to date. (currently it’s the 66th in the list)
so what are the deeds i’m accused of? and why i’m being accused of such deeds?
the reason lies within my answer,… even if it’s kinda a rude one
