And vehicles that sucked.
See, you’re mincing words. As realistic as we can possibly get. If it’s “game breaking.” Then don’t add it.
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Okay, cool. Then you have One-circle fighters win all the time. The Mig-21bis should be unstable at excessively high AoA, Mig-21 pilots were told not to pull that hard IRL. but gaijin lets the instructor pull that hard, because the instructor more or less acts like a god-tier fly-by-wire. Allowing aircraft to pull maneuvers they shouldn’t be doing.
T-80B is stronger Again, the biggest issue is the reverse gear. Any hulldown environment and you’re needing to pixel snipe. The gun mantlets on most NATO tanks are massive making it easy to kill them.
All the same weakspots. The only good thing about it is that you get multiple abrams that behave functionally the same, this allows you to stick around for a long time. That’s one advantage that most nations don’t have and that’s what makes U.S. lineups more “durable” than others.
But I’m glad you brought up the M1A2. Because when the M1A2SEP v2 came out, people actually DISLIKED it over the regular M1A2 because the tank was not only even HEAVIER and slower now, the CROWS basically gave away your position constantly.
You do realize… That even if you overhaul an engine, unless you literally scrap the whole engine and rebuild the engine from the ground up. You still have old code from deprecated unused features that can rear their head from time to time when they badly interact with something new.
The Gamebryo engine was overhauled several times, And then was used as the basis for the Creation engine. If you ever did modding for Fallout 4 and Skyrim. You can still see old features from Morrowind that actually carried over old bugs or caused new ones.
Some rounds still use the old Hitpower mechanics from almost a decade ago and it causes a massive amount of inconsistent performance.
It still is overperforming though. what made it “Go down in effectiveness” is that you don’t have an endless supply of phantoms to maul.
In fact, on initial release, there was times you would have mixed matches where there’d be Mig-21s on the U.S. side as well.
The biggest the F-4E got was a fix to it’s AoA within a month? Two months? Of it’s addition and the AIM-7E-2 was added months later, roughly around when the Viggen came out.
I was merely stating it as a matter of fact. Frontally, the AIM-7E-2 in a frontal aspect was actually better the AIM-7F. Especially in jousts.
The AIM-9Ls were good at that time but they weren’t end-all-be-all until you they were at a lower BR fighting Mig-21s, F-4s and craft. Again. Event F-4E got the AIM-9Ls and we see that the R-60 was better for missile jousts. The R27ER was a good compromise at the time by basically being super maneuverable. And this was supported by an HMD, something the F-16A didn’t have. Oh and R-27T. So you got stuff like this. The AIM-9Ls were the stronger option over the AIM-7s though.
Point is to show that the Mig-23 could keep up flight performance wise… I’m not saying it was better. It’s not like fighting an Su-27 with a F-100. They both had pretty great turn rates.
I mean, point was that you had the equivalent of an AIM-7E-2 but you could silently cue it and launch it at the enemy. The F-14 still has issues of being extremely hot, even in the front. The F-5C has a similar issue but it actually helps it which is why the F-5 is super cold and hard to lock on to. in the rear
It straight did though. You had look-down capability, better radar missiles, and the Mig-23 overperformed so much that the F-4E literally couldn’t fight back against it. You couldn’t outrate him, nothing. It was a massive improvement over the Mig-21. The only difference was that the Mig-23 had less radar missiles but the R-60s were straight better than the J’s.
It didn’t help that everyone played it. So you literally had F-14s on both match and the Top gun movie made it worse where it had a much larger presence when later on, the F-14 shock was gone.
The Mig-23 shock went away but it was just acceptance you couldn’t beat the Mig-23 in the F-4E and you still had an overperforming Mig-21. So basically for two patches the F-4E got dookied on.
