Totally True the game should be at 16.0 by now imo and some BR ranges should be restricted by eras even. WWI and WWII planes shouldn’t be able to face cold war canon jets, cold war canon jets shouldn’t be able to face missile jets and SARH missile only jets shouldn’t be able to face ARH missiles jets.
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i disagree, its strong but the missile itself isnt better than r-77-1, now the rafale+mica package is far deadlier than su30sm + r-77-1.
anyway current problem is:
as we can see here, the MICA Still have a lot of energy left with current game parameters,… but is hard limited, not even by the battery, but by the max-hard cap of 50km. (even if battery is following soon enough)
R-77-1: Approx. 170km from the target at launch, both 12.5km, both aircrafts speed of 540m/s
AIM-120B : Approx. 117km
MICA-EM : Approx. 85km
Yes but mica itself overperforms massively.
This is slightly shrouded by the fact mica basically doesn’t loft, which makes it seem worse than it actually is/could be.
So mirage 2k at the same BR as typhoon FGR4. Rafale F3 at the same BR as F22?
I don’t know, I never played top tier and I don’t know the relative performance of these jets, what I’m saying is just that if the Rafale and MICA EM are that op for 14.0 they should just push it up in BR. Also it also depends a lot which F-22 we’re talking here.
I’m guessing we could match Rafale F.3R against F-22A early and later Rafales (F.4.1 or 4.2, F.5 later…) against later F-22As with 9X and 120D (Increment 3.2 iirc? I don’t remember F-22 increments well)
There is none that I’ve seen for now in terms of primary sources. But it ends up being that the MICA is pretty close to mach 3 if not already capable of Mach 3 vertical launch anyway. Testing shows even when the MICA has to do a hard down-ward turn towards the target rather than keep climbing and accelerating, it manages Mach 2.54. It’s likely it can reach Mach 3 in its current state if the conditions were right (elevated target and etc).
F-22 already could have been for 1-2 updates already, it will be worser than current missile meta, but will have good radar(lacks of HMD tho for air RB) and peak FM&engine
The only thing that would be worse is the lack of HMD
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AIM-120 is terrible missile in game. MICA&R-77-1 are better for game.
also loadout is limited enough(typhoon level)
Is the amraam poorly modeled or does its performance just not work well with the in-game conditions? Because afaik it’s a great missile irl
both. it underperforms, but also doesnt fit game with that easy notching and simplified RWRs
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Do you think the game should be changed to be more realistic in that regard?
notching should be a last resort and kinematic defrat should be the standard, but if not aim120 would work just fine if it was realistic, 35gs of overload is plenty the problem is ingame it underperforms in both terminal maneuverability and launch maneuverability.
In what way is it overperforming?
Man got the Spiderman tingles
Speed and motor. Given its drag is higher than it should be, and it’s still hypersonic…
I await the news…