Imho, i dont think there is single 13.0 thats worth spending money on. They have horrible MM. In sims, it could be kinda decent i think. Never flew it though.
Until we get 14.3 so 13.7-14.0s are all sucked up. 13.0 will suffer.
Sukhoi Su-27/30/33/35/37 Flanker series & Su-34 Fullback - History, Design, Performance & Dissection
☹️. The snail ruined my holidays. I can’t buy anything useful at this sale. And if there is no discount on al-khalid in the packages, then I won’t buy anything at all. Apparently, it is necessary to consider the option of buying some kind of kfir canard and grind Israel.
no? why do so many ppl have this revisionist mindset? Russia was “meta” when SARH was not meta. Ie that is to say, they were NEVER META LOL
F-16 was at least a 1:1 match for the MiG-29 ever since apex predators released and since then the F-16 has been buffed multiple times and the MiG-29 has been nerfed multiple times.
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Only a handful of nations had a 16 I was getting murdered in my Phantom FGR-2. I remember then 23 domination and then the F-14 came and ruined that and then the 29 was as scary as the F-16 to me.
F-16 is a UFO we know that it retains energy too well and can pull insane AOA with the nose authority of a Delta canard!
R-24T and R along with R-27 were just free kills to anything that didn’t have a Gen 4 airframe.
It’s good to see Russia doing better now
So? UK sucked but that doesn’t mean anything regarding MiG-29 being “the meta” or not. It was a shared meta between those two and the balance changes that came afterwards immediately made the F-16 far better than the 29 which continues to be the case to this day.
MLD only was meta for about 6 months, except the USA was meta both before that 6 months and now ever since they have stayed the meta.
No…? you just had to multipath which was really easy at 100m
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Not in a Phantom as you said UK sucked and I played UK I can only go on how the 29 performed against what I flew against it
As someone who flies all nations, the 29 was a contender for top position just like how most new additions are, but was quickly nerfed into being an extremely mid plane which is where it lies now
Russia was ABSURD meta during 15Bis times, meta during 17 times, meta during 19 times, SUPER meta when F13 and F4C came as they fixed 19 to the point it lacked drag for months and was literally unkillable in good hands. Was meta with SMT and R60, was meta with 21Bis, then slight hole with 23M and absurd meta with MLD that ruled for like an year as it was on par with tomcat in BFM and R24R was better than meme broken 7F which could have been defeated by two sharp turns, its radar and R24R was superior for meta. (sparrow mind you, was fixed only months after F15As introduction, it was poor POS missile that barely worked till recently)
Until F-16s addition which was on par for a looong time with 29, Russia was meta for absolute majority of war thunders existence and even Su-27 was no slouch.
Only now russia enjoys what most nations had to go through under the hand of 15bis, 23MLD, 19PT or 21bis.
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Nah, F-86F-2 team were utterly dominating most of the Air RB match. My only top tier at the time was the german Mig15Bis. Most of the matches were in the Spain map, and red side at the time was losing by points automatically in around 15 minutes of match, if they didn’t lose to the F-86F-2. After that it was the Hunter since nobody could catch it, and then the 17.
Then there was various meta from various nation. J32B with Sweden notably. And then came the supersonics and the T-2 broke the game for good.
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I’m not talking about ancient history here, I’m also not literally saying they were never meta once in WT’s history. I’m saying people cherrypick the few times they were meta in air RB and don’t care about the fact they’re going through a shitty period rn. You are also way off with saying which periods they were meta. USA was meta far more often during those periods than USSR overall.
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that its a joke right? The German sabre was the only meta plane at that time. To the point people on that thing got to the 95% win rate.
gaijin is physically allergic to giving russian jets their targeting pods, let alone the french damocles they used - i WISH they would add them, russian multiroles have been missing a whole half of their ordinance cause we dont have the pods yet. But idk if we have a lot of hope unless there was some big outrage over it, or we finally get some hard evidence for the pods in a more modern ordinance chart for example to force their hand with. Gaijin just is super against adding them for whatever reason.
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Lol wtf
yeah sinful pretty much only plays red side sim, well at least for top tier and until recently - he’s now starting his french arc lmao
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God have mercy…
I have been summoned.
Glory to the almighty Flanker!
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it came like 1-2 years after bis or even longer… OG bis had WEP and was untouchable and when 17 came, it was better.
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You shot me down from out of nowhere while I was turning around and my radar didn’t detect anything. Then you got killed by friendly fire lol haha
This idea that because a tech tree was meta once now it needs to suffer and in the future needs to be meta again needs to stop, it’s what makes the game frustrating for a lot of people.
Also:
MLD was good, but when introduced the F-14 flight model and radar were completely overpowered.
Also sparrows were never dramatically inferior to soviet missiles until R-27ER.
MiG-29A (aka September 2023) was the last time USSR was truly meta, it’s actually been quite a long time, especially in simulator mode from what people who play that say.
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