But for some weird reason the F18 seems to have like .5% channel loss which is kind of really low. Compared to all the other American fighters like the F15, the F-14. Literally just any other fighter. It’s weird anything that doesn’t use an S ducts Doesn’t have the the same. Channel loss buff I guess. I think it’s something to artificially balance the fact that the. Well, the airframe. Is slow and has a non positive TWR and near straight wings
Someone looks butthurt. Did you read the whole sentence? About balance, player statistics, gaijin behavior? Or your US main brain short circuit when you saw Russian jet?
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its a blatant double standard regardless. the tornadoes werent doing too hot either
Is it a double standard to give German aircrafts 9Js that they never used while MiG-29 is stuck with R-60s? Is it a double standard to place F-18A at 12.3 with better avionics, better sensors and more radar missiles at 12.3 while MiG-29 is at 12.7?
not really no. think about R27ER on those export MiG’s.
i think the R73+R27 is the best way to go personally, makes more sense than R-60 and R27ER
Oh, and final one - is it double standard that F-18 has positive channel loss, when MiG-29 has around 19%? To look at the same scope as this thread.
not necessarily double standard, but a severe inaccuracy
So it’s only double standard when it’s against US jet?
Ppl keep bringing this up and its an absolutely idiotic take.
Giving the German F-4F the 9J was a nerf the service missile for the aircraft was the AIM-9L. Literally nobody is happy with the 9J additions, the german players cuz the F-4F with 9J’s has half the missiles of other F-4’s and no other advantage, the rest of the playerbase is mad cuz they only have half the story and think the germans got a buff 🙄
its a double standard because they intentionally gave a russian jet a feature they typically deny for everyone else, but for the hornet/eft/rafale having such low channel loss its not a double standard, because its just an inaccuracy and the F-15/F-14/MiG-29/etc. all suffer from it
You do realise that with all-aspect sidewinders it will get br increase? It’s not like they will just keep it as it is but give Phantom 9Ls
What feature? People already said that it’s not a “emergency mode” of some sorts
Who cares, itd be fine going up to 11.3 with the other F-4E variants.
- It has half the missile load of the other F-4’s (4 vs 8)
- All other F-4’s have access to front/quasi-all aspect missiles in the form of AIM-7 variants
Whats the alternative you propose, giving it the AIM-9F’s (the only other AIM-9 variants it used iirc) and dropping its BR even more?
I propose to stop whining about things unless they actually make an aircraft bad to play. Su-30 was given thrust buff not because “Russian bias” but because it couldn’t keep up with other 14.3s and keeping it at 14.0 would be unbalanced. If F-15E gonna get its channel loss reduced - it will go up to 14.3 because 13.0 should not face space shuttles with Fox-3s. It’s pretty simple logic to understand.
its still more than agile enough to take out a fighter
it still gets beaten in flight performance, it relies on its missiles and having a lot of them, which was never at risk. the F-15E however is totally reliant on its speed, it has nothing else really going for it
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5% push it from “die after defending against a single Fox-3” to “I can reliably stay on the defencive and don’t die”. Man, i thought people understang how the game works but oh well. F-15E before nerfs could just be invincible by doing 9G loops at Mach 2.5 and kinematically defeat literally everything that was thrown at it. If you want F-15E to go up to 14.3 - by all means go torture gaijin until they reduce channel loss.
im not asking for a pre-nerf F-15E, your putting words in my mouth now
F-15E still is very powerful when played right. Sure i saw like 5 of such people in past several days, most of F-15Es are either zombers or people that headbutt first Fox-3 that goes their way, but this thing is definitely not struggling. So, i’ll ask you again - what are you asking for?