Maybe I’m just talking Anecdotally, but I firmly remember winning more dogfights in the Yak-141 compared to the Su-27/MiG-29.
TVC before TVC was a thing. But yeah, similar situation, i am not the competitive player, but i do remember getting out of dogfights with 141 way more times than with Pig-29 or Fat-27
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I feel like some of that may owe to the fact that not many people played it, so not many people knew how to play against it.
They just saw it was Russian and were surprised by a pretty nimble FM with good TTW.
And then you somehow outturn Gripen because they never bothered to think and believed in their op flight model
(i once managed to trade with a Gripen in MiG-29SMT of all things)
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Truly a testament to the ego and skill of most Gripen pilots.
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Hopefully Gaijin will break missiles again so i can witness how Eurofighter runs from an SMT in pure terror again.
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It baffles me how many people rely solely on their missiles at top tier.
It really shows what top tier premiums have done, people don’t take their time learning BFM in old WWII and Korean era jets, they just hop in a newer jet, sling missiles and base bomb until they get what they want.
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And then they switch to the new shiny thing that they wanted because surely it’s not their skill issue, it’s premium aircraft thats underpowered and this 14.7 SM2 will actually make me good.
and then you see this on one of the best 14.7 jets that game can offer
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SM2 is literally the best plane in the game, at least the pros say so.
Ton of R-77-1, ±120* gimbal, R-27ERs, and it’s pretty fast with a decent CM count .
The Fact you can sit in the notch and send out R-77-1s makes it the best in the game, since you can stay defensive while being offensive.
Nu-uh
British AESA Eurofighter is truly the best plane in the game, totally superior to his Italian and Germen cousins
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How is the Italian one not higher, I expected more out of the Italian player base than i did the UK and German ones.
Well, i am glad that italians stepped up the game in general. I looked at Italian Eurofighter stats last year (mechanical one, before AESA was added) and it was literally the worst out of 3. Nowadays Germens are at the bottom, probably because all of those hornet sales
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To be fair the German one is technically the worst, since it looses out on some radar gimbal.
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Fari point, but nowadays even old Eurofighter from Germany is at the bottom, and that thing technically is the best out of them because less drag (IRST is pretty much useless outside of Sim)
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Nah, he just has favorable matchmaking, if the 30sm2 only played w rafales, it’d get a boost too. unfortunately, gaijin won’t let the rafale fight itself
Greece subtree coming to the Israeli tree might put an end to this, with a Greek Rafale that could potentially face france.
Though it’s true that Isreal might not be the most played nation, like at all, I wonder if that would balance out the matchmaker.
my bad, should’ve put /s at the end of my message
France has been disrupting matchmaking for like 2-3 years now, and squads looking to STATS farm use it specifically because of those MM advantages
Then we get weird decisions, like the MICA being the only missile with a 7° half-sens. I’ve argued with plenty of moderators and content creators claiming it’s unfair, only for them to respond with stuff like, 'Ah, but it’s not really an advantage, you just need to drop more chaff to dodge the MICA
I didn’t know that France can’t fight France, never bothered to check this. So if i see Rafale on my team i can be sure that there are no Rafales on the other? That would explain unusually high winrate
correct