French pay taxes for being good, and Gaijin’s compression will never stop even though the community wants to.
As a joke with no honest, if France bought F-14A and armed with Magic 1 and R.511/530, it might be hit higher BR than F-14A from USN. :P
Of course, no countermeasures on the French version.
lol you get used to it, i think it forces you to compensate and play smarter (as long as an av8 isnt looking at you with those dreadful missiles…)
Or Harrier GR1 with none and AV-8A with 240
Meh he is just a wikibuser anyone can do that just look at any twitch or reddit mod post exact same writing style and he even allways argues as an oppositionist exactly like them
It wasn’t a joke, they knew exactly what they were doing. It was a scummy cashgrab bc topgun.
and now everyone hates it cause tomcat dominated like IRL unfortunately almost impossible to get buffs
this it in vietnam btw pretty sure the configuration is roughly similar to what it would have had in vietnam in game btw
only buff it need right now is more counter measures as its a very hot plane because of the TF30 engines
which makes it hard to flare 60 CM is not enough especially considering there all small countermeasures
The engines arent the problem. its how the game handles IR signatures. its entirely based upon thrust. The F-14 also may have some unknown variable that makes it rather hot, but you also have other really hot aircraft like all the Harriers which dont even have AB but are genereally considered the “hottest” aircraft in game.
Also, they have standard calibre flares. which are identical accross all aircraft.
You do also get large calibre which is semi common around that BR but you also have BOL which are modeled to be (ahistorically) nano-CMs. But thats all the types of CMs in game at the moment
If it can get more CMs then it should, and that will need a report, but otherwise, there isnt much that can be done for the F-14A.
Ultimately the F-14s biggest issue is one of compression, it cannot go down with ARH due to the lack of performance in those below (and the poor performance of most in premium aircraft) and bad map design, the valley of death style of ARB is the perfect killing field for it. Wider maps would help mitigate the performance of all ARH missiles.
funnily enough you report anything on F-14A it gets shelfed same with B the devs dislike the plane dont know why
That’s pretty common with American vehicles. Harrier, F-100, Phantom, Abrams, HSTV-L, F4D-1, M901, F-84F, F-104, etc.
I think its NATO vehicles.
Most British vehicles have major outstanding bug reports. Inlcuding a few id consider game breakers
China suffers quite a bit from incorrect modelling/lack of care put towards vehicles(ztz99 spall liners for example). It unfortunately isn’t just a nato thing.
Non-soviet then?
At least they always seem to have the fewest issues
man just want my favorite plane to be fun and accurate to irl
Yeah…
Im still waiting on the Sea Harrier FRS1, Tornado Gr1/GR4 and Typhoon FGR4 to be in a decent state.
i get ya people say american mains suck cause they get babied in air but we have planes that suffer
I think aircraft like the F-18 and F-16 really dont belong at 12.3 and should be 12.7. Also the F-15C should probably be 14.0. US vehicles do seem to be generally a lower BR than they would be in other trees (B-26 is a great example of that, being 0.3 higher in the French Tree)
But the F-14A… its in a tricky place, though I do think talk of lowering it at all shows a certain degree of lack of understanding ,especially when it already gets the exclusive buff of not being 13.0. Its really hard to justfiy something like the Sea Harrier FA2 being 13.0 with the F-14A at 12.7
who said sea harrier deserves 13.0 isnt it just a worse av8b
F15C can be 14.0 when the game makes eurofighter higher and rafale same with F15E and su30sm
It has 4x AMRAAM and therefore the lowest it can go is 13.0.
Its got a better radar and RWR over the AV-8B and should have 2x more CMs, but with how BOL is modeled it doesnt.
Exactly that. That is why people think the US a babied.
F-15C is barely behind the Typhoon and Rafale in terms of performance.
Prior to the F-15C being added, the US mains were saying the Typhoon should be added with the F-15C MISP II. Afterwards, it was the F-18E or F-22.
Quite frankly. F-18 should have come alongside aircraft like the Su-27SM and Tornado F3 late and the F-15C should have come alongside the Typhoon and Rafale.