Should MICA VL be added to the game in addition to SAMP/T?
Yes
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Recently on the Russian stream it has been acknowledged that the SAMP/T with Aster missiles is being worked on for France and Italy for possibly in a future major as their relative counterparts. It should be noted that while the efforts to create this system for both France and Italy is appreciated, there is still a demand and desire to see the MICA VL added to the game for France as well.
The Aster 30 missile in the SAMP/T has ranges of beyond 100km+. This would create a system that would necessitate a much higher battle rating, whereas the MICA VL would offer two different variations of missiles (MICA IR and MICA EM) with ranges of around 20km maximum. A future system, the MICA NG would offer the same variations of missiles with ranges of around 40km maximum putting it on par with SLM.
The addition of SAMP/T would allow developers to fill the needs of two countries with one system, but France should not have its diversity of systems sacrificed in order to simplify efforts.
It is therefore the opinion of this topic that the addition of SAMP/T with Aster missiles should not overshadow any opportunity to add the MICA VL.
+1. I don’t understand why it’s not coming along the IRIS-T, Spyder, and SLAMRAAM. Especially since its range is in between the SLS and SLM, I think it would have been a fine addition for the Leviathans update
And the MICA VL has many things going for it even if developers might consider that it is underwhelming a bit compared to SLM. The combination of both MICA EM and MICA IR ensures a higher no-escape zone area than SLM alone.
I’m not too well versed on the capabilities but could the Crotale come between the ItO and things like the SAMP/T and MICA VL to fill gaps in the future?
The Crotale there would be inferior to VT1 which recently got bugreported to go from 12km ----> 15km in range, but now that towed SAMs are a thing we can see it added a bit below VT1.
These are the updates that i don’t understand gaijin wants to add new mechanics but only for select countries to start forcing the others to leave a preferred nation or wait 3 months for them to add it finally #Justice for supacat ASRAAM
There’s issues with the SAMP/T. Ideally it gets delayed. Developers are under the incorrect assumption that the SAMP/T used Aster-15 which has a range of ~50km comparable to IRIS-T SLM. However, the Aster-15 is only for naval and was never used by SAMP/T. Only Aster-30 was used by SAMP/T. Aster-30 has a range of over 130km. You can see the problem here.
It is still active radar homing yes, but the kinematics are vastly superior. Kinematics are important to include in this discussion, they can impact gameplay balance as well. SLM with the range of 40km can still be evaded at 20km according to anecdotes of users who claim to have tested against it. However, I’m quite confident no one is looking forward to being launched on by an Aster-30 at the start of the spawn.
If its not already planned for and being worked on for this update, then its highly unlikely they’re going to pull one out of thin air at the last minute anyway
That is correct, but I was just giving my opinion even though according to some people having watched the Russian devstream, it is possible other systems may come this patch.
