what is annoying is that a large number of straight up clowns try to act like the f/a18e ingame is fine because “duh its mediocre irl too” disregarding the fact its main issues is the broken missiles and the fact its missing the vast majority of its guided ordinance.
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Well FM wise F/A-18E is rather… lackluster irl, but I’m curious on what “Vast majority of guided ordinance” it’s missing?
All I can think of is maybe SDB-2 and GBU-56? (The latter being a thing missing on a lot of things for gaijin’s standards), oh JSOW and JASSM too, the latter obviously not shocking it’s missing from a lot of things in game for balance and whatever.
On the other hand what else can they do? There’s not that many credible sources about the aircrafts of modern era, and in reality, marketing ALWAYS lies to some extent because that’s the whole purpose of marketing.
Russia was already better than most now the SM2 is arguably the best
nothing with AIM-120s can ever be considered the best
I would laugh my ass if gaijin version of AIM-120 is actually closer to real life performance than hopes and dreams of US mains. But, frankly, i care little about IRL performance. AMRAAM needs a buff right now, and if gaijin is too scared to buff A and B because it will also affect a lot of low tier Fox-3 slingers as well (which is a fair concern imo) they at least can do something with 120C to bring its performace to the competitive level with other 14.0-14.3 missiles
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agm88b, agm88e, agm84h/k, all the agm154a and c(agm154b was never adopted but it was finished), also gbu53b which is just a better spice250 in practice, and i missed stuff
The only one on that list that you could reasonably expect in game rn is SLAM… MAYBE SDB-2 if we’re pushing it… but HARMs, JSOW, JASSM, and SLAM-ER are kinda just wishful thinking rn… especially HARMs.
because god forbid the country which was at the helm of most a2g innovation actually gets some meta a2g weaponry
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How would any of those be meta besides SDB-2? SLAM/SLAM-ER are tragically slow, and like SLAM, JSOW and JASSM (ignoring that JSOW-C, the strongest variant we could expect would be a defacto Spice-1000 functionality wise) lack the quantity on most things to do much… and HARMs would be downright silly since nobody else has access to PRH homing weaponry?
I have nothing against stuff like SDB-2 since tbf it’s just a Spice-250 for the game’s sake, but JASSM and ARMs especially are a tad bit much…
Spend more time and effort on getting things more accurate instead of just blatantly rushing things out to eek more money out the pockets of the player base. I’ve been playing this game for 12 years since November 2013 and these last 3 years it’s become more predatory than ever the monetisation and releasing updates in more broken states than ever just to push some new premiums out.
While yes marketing is marketing they like to embellish aspects but there is certain things they cannot get away with and incase of the typhoon if it wasnt able to do what was advertised well there would be a considerably huge legal case because of where they are located can’t say for russia but I would like to assume the same standard would be applied there.
But back to the point gaijin need to look over other things first before stuff is pushed to live. Is there no common sense thought on this older heavier lower TWR aircraft now does the job better than something that would outperform. Just imagine the state of air is going to be like when 5th gen’s hit stealth is going to be an absolute disaster mess because it means them actually modelled RCS properly for once and more accurate detection ranges for radars
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faster than spice, aasm250 and agm65, jsow has 2 different kind of guided bomblets which balance out the low speed by making terminal interception hard. agm88bs are as fast as kh38mt but easier to evade and much less lethal and useful.
SLAM/SLAM-ER’s cruising speed is still 600-800 mph iirc, still very slow… JSOW-B (the cluster variant you mentioned that wasn’t adopted by the US, unless I’m forgetting something), wouldn’t come since gaijin has made it clear they’re against cluster munition/dispensers for the time being, it’d likely be JSOW-A1 and JSOW-C, ie GPS only frag warhead and IIR guided BROACH.
and ARMs just aren’t gonna happen? It’s still VERY lethal to SPAAs and very useful against them?
again significantly faster than other western a2g weapons in game that have short boost or outright no engine
it wouldn’t, simply because it would affect matters of national security, even if some legal actions would take place, they most certainly woudn’t be public.
Not very good business strategy. a lot of risk, little to no reward. As much as i hate it - gaijin right now actually has pretty solid strategy of making money.
Idk about you, but I think I’d prefer something along the lines of SDB-2 or even JSOW-A1/C1 over SLAM…
PGM-2000 mogs all of them anyways.
agm154b was a finished weapon that simply didnt enter service, its uses the same bomblets as the cbu97, more real than kh38mt.
C is one that entered service, with it’s IIR seeker and BROACH warhead… There’s only two variants of JSOW with cluster munitions, A (w/ BLU-97 Submunitions and B w/ BLU-108 Submunitions).
I’d like to see JSOW-A1 and C but I can live peacefully without cluster munitions.
i know, there are bigger breaks of reality than a weapon variant being added that wasnt adopted.
You do? Yet you just stated otherwise above? Usual message editing
agm154c is the unitary warhead variant, what i was talking about is agm154b. it was a type i edited out literally instantly.