Try switching to EU servers. It worked extremely well for me in ground, but idk about air.
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technically it never has been and wont be after patch because f15i is objectively better due to extra countermeasures
however even just practically EFT and ravioli were added less than a month latter and both are significantly better than f15e
What is it, like 60 extra? Not really that big of a difference IMO.
yeah its not a huge difference, thats why I added the technicality, pretty much never comes up
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This isn’t a new phenomenon.
Completely the opposite in air RB. US stuff is either undertiered, or is pushed down to lower BRs because the players aren’t good enough to use them right.
Just because one plane can out dive another, doesn’t mean it will in every single situation.
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Rafale C F3 handles very good at short distances but I don’t see any F-15E sane user going at short distances against a MICA-EM, Eurofighter-2000 in other hand, seems to have some issues pointed by the community specially regarding the radar,
Their weapons, is absolute the same (AIM-120B and AIM-9M at the best, maybe the F-15E could get the AIM-9X I’ll be surprised) to the F-15E, when having a better radar performance in-game, makes the F-15E practically better than the Eurofighter-2000.
thanks for confirming you have never played top tier air rb
there is no other way you would say that
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No, honestly; I don’t know how to exactly handle ARH, SARH missiles, nor radar. If you take a time to check my profile, you see my terrible stats on higher battle rating vehicles.
yeah so why are you mentioning vehicles you have no experience with?
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Data in-game, replays and, sounds stupid from how much time I died to a specific vehicle, or is it fine the F-15E for example having a good selection of weapons such like the AIM-120B getting a better missile?
It’s like the Su-27SM having the R-77 and out of nowhere Gaijin adds the R-77-1 without any penalties like battle rating changes, and I wanted to know your position regarding my comment, is it so anything that I said wrong? It may be a good sign for myself step outside of air battles discussions.
American mains being bad post #2482681
the big thing to note the two worst 14.0s (at least according to the metrics gaijin uses that we have data for) are f18C and F15e/i by a significant margin
and those two are the ones getting a possibly improved missile next patch to try balance the 14.0 br range
So my guess, is it ok for the AIM-120C-5 come to the game for balancing reasons? Despite the F-15E being a huge flying chunk never seen it as a bad vehicle. The Rafale in comparison is way too good for its own, you can’t fly low and keep higher speeds, but the maneuverability is awesome.
Those planes are the best, not our fault that Americans are so bad at the game that they need to buff the most brain-dead easy jets to use
Honestly, they should give the current missiles their irl performance first. The more missiles we add, the worst any changes to the current ones will be.
You dont understand. The p47 needs to be 2.7 because i cant turn fight zeros in it.
eurofighter is pretty much a much better f15e right now
f15e slightly out accelerates it at certain speeds and has more options with its missile load but EFT has much better turning capability allowing it to more easily notch/evade missiles and recommit which makes it significantly better for BVR and better turning also makes it much better at close range
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I didnt know ravioli, su-30, or EFT were in the US tech tree; or that they were all getting buffed this update
That’s why I mentioned no sane F-15E user is going at close range, I know the F-15E doesn’t have a good flying performance compared to other lighter fighters at battle rating 14.0.
Then if you don’t see, any problem with this addition and I’m neutral as this doesn’t affect myself, guess is wait and see how the community will react if it makes into the Live version.
the issue is there isnt really a way to stay at longer range, all matches eventually evolve into close range
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Absolutely this
The advantage US aircraft have in war thunder is BVR combat but the way top tier WT plays does not allow for it to matter as much as it should and honestly a EFT is just a better F-15E at this point
defending against fox 3 missiles in WT is too easy compared to other sims like DCS/BMS/VTOLVR and especially IRL and it negates the entire BVR advantage US aircraft have because of it which forces them to get close and end up dying because of it
Adding the Aim-120C will not fix this its adding a longer range missile without fixing the flaws that make the A/B insufficient because range is not the issue currently
The problem is USAF relies too heavily on BVR IRL which is perfectly fine IRL but in war thunder the issues quickly show up from that in that most of our jets just cannot dogfight compared to its adversaries
IRL upgrades to these aircraft focus on just improving the BVR aspect since thats mostly just what matters to them IRL while in game if we got these upgrades it would not really change anything at all just because of how war thunder works
TLDR
USAF Doctrine relies heavily on BVR combat and it shows in game as lower performance in general despite a BVR advantage