Yes but they are not the same thing as you claimed earlier, because the way to the intended target is different.
I never said anything against that. I just said that your claim that Rafales popularity increase is because of fictional stats is unfounded, because its popular in Air rb where the hammers dont matter
Best to agree to disagree on this one.
It’s hardly unfounded.
Rafale getting 2nd best AGM definitely brings out more players in GRB than if it had some crappy missile with 1.5km of lock range.
Thats the point. It doesnt, French ground barely moved in popularity from July to August while the Rafales playrate doubled. Dont get me wrong i fully agree that the Rafale is broken, the Hammers need a good look by Gaijin and the constant buffs while everyone else fights for scraps are unfair. But fictional stats are not the reason for Rafales popularity, favoritism and MICAs are.
Looks like you have a magic ball and can predict what would happen if Hammers were much worse than they are now ? Do you not understand this nerf would place IR Hammer in line with some 10.0 AGMs and make them barely useful at 13.0 ?
I dont need a magic ball. I can see that the Rafales (and by extension Mirage F1C 200s) popularity is completely disconnected from Frances ground popularity therefore deducing that Rafales popularity is not based on its performance in ground but on its overperformance in Air Rb where the hammers dont matter making your inital argument about Rafales popularity stemming from fictional stats very unlikely.
If it was Russian it would be 3.3 (joke)
Rafale being popular is a mix of favoritism and fiction. Spot the keyword here.
IR Hammer having awful, almost comical seeker would reduce the play count of Rafale in GRB, which is a pretty obvious thing to state.
It’d also come with a bunch of bias threads calling out fiction.
Remove USA lol, claws doesnt even come close to these
Nobody gives a damn about HAMMER. Rafale biggest issue is that it makes MICA really OP.
I’m sure that many from the thousands of killed by now confirmed fake missile do care.
Rafale’s popularity is because it beat an F-22 in a dogfight, and is a notorious aircraft in general.
That’s it.
It “over-performing” is purely due to the players playing it.
Its performing amazingly due to just being incredibly well suited for the current meta and MICAs just being the perfect missile for a near perfect plane.
Yes French players are usually quite good but no need to give them more credit than necessary
Too bad it’s completely ahistorical and Gaijin fucked the missile up. I wonder why? Meanwhile LMUR is a oneshot kill on everything in the game. Funny, that.
Seems to be a common problem with top-tier IR missiles lmao
Fiction all around us.
Sad :(
Well, I can’t do anything about that. The only one who can is the snail about the missile not causing damage, but it doesn’t change the fact that everyone will receive it and maybe some more nations will receive it, and that’s a fact.
its also popular for dying to J-10 lmao, its favored because its broken and has the most meta kit of all top tier jets. MICA is by far the best AA missile and it at least for a year or so was the best by far for ground RB as well.
This thing is the best fox 3 because the platform it is on is very good, in my opinion this missile is totally unbalanced, all the missiles in the game have the same seeker but the mica has the smallest FOV if I’m not mistaken and a better seeker, if the missiles in the ARB had their realistic seeker, R77-1 and AIM120C5 would reign, Su30SM, F15 and Eurofighters would end with Rafale
maybe, whose to say. The AIM-120C should have gotten the better seeker it had on the levithan’s dev, things might be a lot different right now in terms of air rb. But right now, MICA is still by far the best. SU-30 at least right now is in a pretty good place. I think even if the 120C had the better seeker the rafale would still be pretty busted just down to how good it is mid and late game.