Pangolin was right, you’re headstrong.
Oh, welcome back! Thought you left?
You acknowledge the IR meta in one statement, then act in another statement as if the R27ER made the soviets better when it was a clear one sided USA meta due to multipathing and better FMs combined with more reliable IR missiles. Do you think I should think you understand that meta when you say this?
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Orbital striking with 9M was never meta in sim. It was always hug the ground and fire 9M from side aspect.
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They aren’t bad in ground, like air, the USA players are generally bad and hand held by things such as 5.0 sec unrealistic reloads, etc
Nothing has changed? I use the R-27er the same way I did before, did very well with it before, now? It rarely hits anything.
Naval, air, are mostly USA players.
5.0 sec is not unrealistic, unless you mean that the aces crew should represent the absolute peak of crew skill and capability, in which case they should be able to load in 3s or less from the ready rack
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Brother you didn’t just say the aim-9m is useless in sim…
it’s smokeless and impossible to detect
Crazy to think gaijin is still allowing the a-10c to be 11.7 instead of 12.0, and the su25sm3 to be 12.3 and not 12.0 in air sim.
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These are magically numbers, that were pulled from someone’s ass. It’s been proven to be incorrect, with the fastest load being 4 secs which was a lap load. But that’s a whole different topic.
R27ER wasnt changed.
They’ve done something. I have never had such a bad hit record with R-27ers before. I used to hit people as far away as 24 miles, and as short as 3 miles.
Out of the 20 I fired yesterday, I think 2-3 connected.
Range was between 10-20 miles, in a head on battle.
I took those over R-77s because I thought I could put range the aim-120 spam. I was clearly wrong
nah they really haven’t, zero datamines mention anything and my own personal experience is the same as well
Well, like all HMD, except of A-10C(Mirage 2000 from major update too) are… not really good and still better to use hardlock/TWS, because they do have IFF
If you forget things like the blast doors, lining up the gun, potential movement, fatigue, etc. then maybe its realistic if you really buff up some numbers
America has gotten quite a lot of handholding, and since this particular topic is Air, one potential obvious choice is the F-15E. Some complaining about it got it an entirely new engine that keeps it at a currently busted state. How long did it take for Mirages to not have massively gimped Countermeasures, and how long have MICAs not been fixed?
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I guess that guy should go to the Guinness book since he breaks your imaginary world record not once but twice in less than 30 seconds.
Blast door are represented in game. You get ammo racked if shot during loading. Lining up the gun isn’t represented for autoloader either. Movement is not represented because Gaijin chose an average value for all states. Fatigue is a non-factor. Loaders slowing down due to fatigue is an online myth. It’s not an exhausting movement and shells are not that heavy for a muscular person, especially over such a short distance to carry.
Anyway, sorry for the slight off topic but the misinformation had to be corrected.
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another variant of the strike eagle was added with those engines while US one was left with weaker 220’s, was justified and not just baseless complaints
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You know what it was also added with? No Mavericks, a rather highly use weapon. Now the F-15E is simply better than the F-15I. And I don’t see any of the Russian engine upgrades that were used being added
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No it’s not. The F-15I has more countermeasures and slightly less drag than the F-15E. There has also been a big community push for Israeli planes to receive their own domestic fire and forget bombs like the Spice, with them possibly coming in the December patch as a result. The F-15I is better in air RB/SB and worse in Ground RB/SB right now.
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Last I saw they have the same drag, and both have MORE than enough countermeasures to last a match unless you way overexert in the F-15E for some reason
Also, big community push to receive weapons that went nowhere, unlike the F-15E engines, which got solved basically immediately. That sounds like catering
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They don’t. The F-15I still has the ‘turkey feathers’ on its engine, reducing drag. It’s an aerodynamic engine cover. These are a maintenance nightmare and were removed on US F-15s shortly after the A.
And yes it’s correct for the F-15I to have it. The Israelis kept it despite the maintenance needed.
So yes, the F-15I is quite simply better than the E in air to air right now, not by much, but still better.
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I know its correct for the F-15I but you’re wildly missing the point.
The F-15E was already great. America players cried, got a gigantic engine buff.
Mirage 2000? Missing tons of CMs for ages. MICA? still spins out despite complaints. Su-27? Flight model still scuffed. Gripen? Thing got stamped into the dirt when it was already down.
America mains can go ‘but my new engine!’ and get a new engine that massively increases performance, everyone else has to fight for a buff over years
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