and they were for the 3-4 years before that. But I would still say they’ve been perfectly competitive in the past 2 years, just not able to steamroll every lobby without effort
you’d be wrong. f15e was meta for a few months, after that it had no real place in the game anymore. f/a18c late was always just low skill floor low skill ceiling aircraft with no real advantages outside of notching faster and having many missiles, anybody remotely skilled could kill a hornet in any of the 14.0s without them being able to do much as the hornet had no ability to take the initiative against any top tier aircraft.
So, theyve been at a disadvantage (though I would still argue that they were not that far behind, way less behind than other nations have been or even still are, like israel is currently)
I dont see why this entitles the US to get significant advantages over other top tier nations when they are currently equal to most other nations and superior to the others. Nor why they need a significants advantages in the future. For example F-22s having a superior missile to everyone else.
But even just the F-15EX would likely result in other nations needing buffs to maintain pace.
i remind you that before the f15ge, the best eagle in the game was israeli, not in arb sure but f15e wasnt very good in arb in the first place
No buff would be given tbh. If they could let rafale or F-14 dominate for long time, then I don’t see them giving any buff to any other nation when F-15EX is added
So?
Because Israel was better than the US for a period of time, they deserve to be massively weaker now?
how did you figure that from what i said.
Unfortunately true, US mains like throwing tantrums when they arent the best and other nations asking to be kept on par would be treated as an attack.
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why would other nations need buff to keep up with the f15ex? ef2k aesa is ingame right now su30sm2 much the same.
Israel has no AESA Top tier and is overall the weakest top tier nation in-game currently.
And you mention that the F-15I was better than the F-15E as if that somehows justifies it
Due to MCM imo. 16 missile would be very good in current iron dome meta
again how did you somehow figure that?
F-15C GE is already on-par with the AESA EFT and Su-30SM2.
If it got better engines, MAWS, more CMs, better RWR, more missiles. etc etc
Why would it not be superior?
At the bare minimum, the Typhoons should get C8s
Right here, this is precisely what you said
I don’t think that would make it any superior to current jets (everything mentioned in the quote), only more missile would do the thing
What advantage would the F15EX have in game? It would essentially be an AESA F15E. None of the other improvements would be reflected in game.
It would negate the current “disadvantages” over the F-15C GE.
this “meta” (i dont think its a meta, its not really an efficient or particularly effective way to play) wont last if gaijin has a single person with a braincell in the balancing teams, it goes against everything the arb was designed to be at top tier, the entire reason seekers are mostly unified and easy to notch is to promote more skillfull gameplay, mcm kills gameplay and is very much in opposition to gaijin’s ideal of making wt in an esport.
its not.
i dont think the EX gets better engines, maws is not on american ex, rwr and missiles sure. but the meta is the radar at top tier, ef2k and su30sm2 can defend and attack at the same time.