Damn. After grinding stock for 3 days the aircraft turns out to be a monster. The radar is actually insane. Not just for ER’s I usually dont use them because its to much fumbling and hard locks are super inconsistent lately, even just for simple datalink jousting its just insane. It is so incredible hard to notch that radar because on how much angle the su can pull on you aka your missile literally almost never gets fooled by chaff even while notching. Most of the time the R77-1 is out of energy rather than not guiding anymore. Ever since I’ve done the stock grind I been getting like 4-7 kill games pretty consistently. I can’t even enjoy the AESA on the EF lol
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The only way to shine in the eurofighter is BVR as it can climb faster than the sm2. But since it’s restricted to aim120c5 (I got the MKM recently and wow the r77 performs much better) and multipathing still not nerfed, it doesn’t perform as well. And with the upcoming buff to flankers to turn better so they can notch more easily, we will see the gap increase. It’s nice to see rafale not dominating anymore though, just need to buff F15, F18, and typhoons to make top tier air more competitive.
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I have the su30sm2 almost spaded its great and shoud be higher BR along with the rafales.
In the meanwhile I started grinding the AESA typhoon by playing the OG typhoon which somehow feels like it has an even worse radar than before. Truly a blind plane and doesn’t perform at 14.3.
I am now using the british Gripen C with much better results
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Lately it seems like the devs are only willing to adjust the Values on Russian vehicles while Ignoring pretty much every other nation in that regard, but hey theres no preference to Russia as a nation in game am i right.
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Haha forget it, that’s not happening any time soon
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I’ve noticed a lot of request to change NATO planes but no one was really asking for a buff to the flankers turning radius. That’s why it feels out of the blue, but Gaijin has their own agenda to push. I still play the typhoon cause its still the fastest plane to BVR. Its odd to see how months of playing the typhoon gets me the same kills as the first day of me flying my first flanker though. I definitely felt Gaijin holding my hand alot with the su30mkm
See I also have the EF fully spaded and I can confirm, the Su30sm2’s Radar works faster and better for some reason and it filters all the clutter way better on top of the 240° FoR which is absolutely insane.
I meant the non aesa typhoon. It isn’t good at 14.3
That original typhoon never had a good radar. Only with the AESA and datalink is BVR now somewhat possible.
Yeah but they share the same BR
Gaijin forgot to decompress top tier air when they added AESA planes. They will soon. But the original typhoon will still only be 0.3 below the max br still, not making much difference.
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I won’t be touching it anytime soon. I average 1 kill per game with it, some games with 0 kills, just defensive flying the whole match. (I have good stats with it but it was at its introduction, now it is very subpar)
With the gripen C I average 3+ kills, 6 kill games are non unusual and I rarelly die with it. So I’ve been using it to research the AESA typhoon instead
Nice, germany only has a bad hornet and for some reason a phantom lol.
I wanted to spade the original EF, but decided to abandon this idea, because in comparison - it’s unplayable. Most of the time it’s hard to distinguish between the planes and rockets with radar, and the constant tune of the radar (up/down, left/right) makes it more hard to score.
Spade the new AESA typhoon, I think you need it to do well in matches. It’s hard enough without it.
If I had to use germany to grind the typhoon I would probably use the mig-29 which is good unless you get full uptiers
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Already did. And after I just though to maybe spade the original one.
To be honest the su30sm2 also picks a lot of missiles and is annoying to select targets in bvr after the initial missile spam. But at least the radar itself picks things really quickly and reliably
then don’t fly the original, its the same br and no AESA
Gaijin just needs to add an option to filter just planes on the radar, they already allow us to filter out friendlies