I’ve just taken to doing it myself.
All you really have to do is copy a Su-30SM2.Blk into the skin folder, and then make the SM2 skin data route to the SM User skin.
(SM)
(SM2)
I haven’t really had any issues with any skins I’ve done this to so far.
Can’t wait to watch all these SM2 skins get broken once an updated model with the missing 14CMs comes out (So like, in 6 months).
It’s not exclusive to RU, any of the Big 3 getting something clearly broken is going to make more waves than a minor nation getting something that eventually got buffed too much. Su-30SM2 was literally on dev performing amazingly while on dev, Rafale was mediocre and limited to much weaker loadouts. It took gaijin at least a few months to make Rafale broken. But once Rafale became top dog, everyone constantly cried about it. Again, your skill issue for not managing to see any of that.
It was not, lmao. It was great on the dev server, it was just buffed to be even better after release
pretty interesting, so new slats compartments are just texture on the skin, and not even a separate one.
No, I think the SM2 uses a different skin map than the SM, but since it’s so similar it’ll just glitch to a similar color.
The new slats on the UN skin is a diff shade of black, and on the Red 15 skin it’s a diff shade of blue.
Just altering the .blk won’t make a SM skin into an SM2 skin, it’ll have a few glitches and such…
But in game you’re not gonna notice, unless you’re staring at every inch of your skin in perfect lighting.
yeah, i used similar tweaks with some of the Bf 109 and MiG-21 skins
Judging by how long it took for gaijin to fix Su-30SM canards, pylons between nacelles and wing roots, we will get 14 countermeasures in about 6 months from now on.
??? Are you serious, where have you been for the past year? The Rafale(And MICA) are probably two of the most complained things about, on Reddit, Youtube, and the forum. The Rafale topic is up to part 2 now, with most of part 1 and 2 being complaints.
And yes, certain trees can rightfully complain when for example Israel still doesn’t have an AESA fighter, or the USA has to deal with probably the worst 14.3 in the game, both the Golden Eagle and F-18E are an absolute joke when compared to the Rafale or Eurofighter at the same BR.
Second honorable mention to the US tree now being the absolute worst CAS nation at top tier with planes, still missing GBU-53s when Spice have now been added to other nations that needed proper CAS, including the stupid 16 spice 250 loadout on the Gripen E.(Was refused last patch on the F-16I because apparently bad for balance? Okay)
Russia doesn’t have an AESA fighter either
PESA pretty much works the same as AESA in War Thunder. They’re even classified the same in X-ray. If it was accurate, the AESA radars would be able to heavily jam the PESA mounted on russian fighters, especially since PESA have predictable emissions while AESA changes frequency pulse-to-pulse, making AESA extremely hard to jam.
Furthermore, AESA are still missing their LPI mode, which would make them virtually invisible on RWR.
I support adding this feature, if it is true
Then your original comment will be relevant when these features are added. As of right now, Russian radars in WT function like AESA.
The AESA passively intercepts the PESA’s emissions. It measures frequency, pulse repetition frequency (PRF), beam timing, scan pattern. PESA radars emit high-power, predictable signals, making them easy to characterize.
The AESA injects tailored interference. Instead of blasting noise everywhere, the AESA focuses energy only toward the PESA. It matches the PESA’s frequency and timing and uses coherent jamming on it.
This creates wrong range, wrong speed, and multiple ghost aircraft
PESA struggles big time here because it cannot change waveforms fast enough like an AESA can and its tracking filters assume stable returns. A PESA radar has no solution against AESA, only mitigation like shorter range to brute force through the jamming or datalink,
You clearly have no idea.
On original dev it was limited to six total missiles, had a hilariously crap FM and the chaff wasn’t even modeled. It was not good on dev server. It was decent on release with 8 missiles but MICA was using the standard seeker and the FM was below the EF2000 at 95% of flight regimes. Only after the MICA seeker change and high speed buff did the Rafale become actually broken.
Rafale maintained it a for a year and never got that spotlight, Ive heard terms like “busted” “Op” in an instant when youtubers or content creators or forum thread dwellers talking 30sm2. You guys never pushed the community managers to respond about any nato performing extremely well. Because anything nato performing well wether its breaking the damn game, because “accuracy”
Soon as a russian vic comes? Everyone asking devs to monitor performance eh?? Isnt it funny guys? We need a BR raise too(instantly people are pestering CMs about rank 9 or 15.0)
You know whats funny? People were comparing su30sm to J-11B on release. Saying su30sm is DOA, and for the next several months of the 30sm’s time in the game, people saw it as nothing but pretty much a missile boat. So when the devs give a jet like JUST engine upgrades, and a radar that can look past 90 degrees, whilst even other nations received such radars(uk,italy,Sweden) it became an issue. I mean gaijin set precedence on it, i never thought it would be a thing but here we are, but on top of that getting more missiles for most nations, everyone got atleast 2x more arh to the US mains getting 4x arh for their F-15s. And yet we only received an engine overhaul that makes simply go decently fast with our 18.8 Tonne jet lol. In a dogfight flankers still lack any lift or the speed bleed is insane to the point you suffer with the automatic thrust vectoring you can turn off.
On top of that we dont have 360° rwr, we have no maws, we also dont have the insane CM that almost every nation has. Yet, just cuz of one mechanic which is not even that op, you guys freak out instantly because its russia and you guys cant see pass the bigger picture.
Yep, the fm was super cracked for most 4th gen fighters in the game. A little under of the eft, but nothing at all bad. 21 G performance in terms of full and great recovery after maneuvers were done. Mica an exceptional missile with 50Gs, excellent kinematic performance and thrust vectoring already dominating the notch-notch type of games we en counter in rb. It was already fine
Yet 9Js couldn’t lock as reliably neither could 9Ds
The Rafale and MICA have both rightfully been the main target of complaints for the past year or so when talking about top tier air. Russia is mostly targeted in top tier ground because of the fake KH-38, dubious damage models, and more recently OP LMUR.
But clearly, you haven’t been paying attention if you didn’t see all the constant complaints about the Rafale.
No Gaijin padded the Su-30 it received more missiles because it was falling behind well now it has the 2nd best overall FM, the best Payload in all game modes, the best Radar despite it being PESA.
And now what is happening well it’s the meta jet, not because it’s good IRL or in terms of realism but because Gaijin have just thrown so much stuff at it.
We are at a point now where anytime any jet merges with a Su-30 you automatically lose and you lose because if you are in a jet with 9Ms and 120s you cannot use your missiles.
It’s time for a 120/MICA/PL-12 buff and whatever other none R-77-1 we have left out. It’s also time to start receiving their HOB IR missiles. Imagine that F-15 you are bullying could crack off a 9X or a Typhoon could use an IRIS-T/ASRAAM. These jets are purposely being held in these states to allow Su-30 to dominate.
Sooner or later these systems will have to come to the game and while Russia is behind on IIR development that should not stifle other nations from being competitive.
