If you mean exclusively in A2G, the lack of the 229s with the added weight meant that the F-15E’s flight performance was abysmal for it’s BR due to it’s girth and vastly inferior to the F-15I. Such is far more important in actual gameplay.
Yet, one of the primary things people who were asking for the 229s also asked for was the F-15I to get it’s mavs as well, along with both getting the IR guided AGM-130s, which, they did.
Both aircraft became identical which is the best outcome that could have occurred imo. The I does still have more countermeasures but eh, thats fine.
Rafale is the top jet in game it’s incredible and it should be!
Same with Typhoon the speed I ripped while guiding a Brimstone with the throttle at 70%…
was too busy using the pod to guide the missile!
The lack of mavs hard limited the F-15I significantly in terms of multirole. It could only mount LGBs if you wanted to take the wing mounter A2A missiles. If you wanted to take the IR GBU-15 you couldn’t take the wing mounted missiles, which meant you would either have to give up the rest of your CAS loadout for A2A or run no A2A missiles at all.
Mavs got added a month later yes, it doesn’t have AGM-130s.
But yeah I do agree that the current outcome is the best, just saying that the F-15I was not flat out better than the F-15E during the dev servers.
Once again, having almost 5000 kgf more thrust is not a minor difference, and their performance on dev showcased that, the F-15I was a rocket, reaching mach 2 like it was a suggestion, while the F-15C MISP II in the US tech tree was overall the better plane when compared to the US F-15E as it is slightly lighter.
The GBU-15 / AGM-130 mounting issue is a ongoing problem for both aircraft as both should be able to mount AAMs + those two pieces of ord via a spacer, same deal with the wing mounted paveways.
Should still get the 130 too, more things to work on sadly.
But in the end, prior to the engine addition, in RB air, the F-15E had vastly inferior flight performance to the I, yes, it had worse A2G capabilities, but in ARB, A2G performance is largely a secondary concern, if not tertiary in today’s climate.
Thinking about it more this is also why gaijin is somehow fine with the Finnish F/A-18C being the same BR as the US one, A2G abilities are not taken into account when balancing for ARB, only A2A abilities. For both of these planes their A2A abilities are largely the same bar the Finnish F/A-18C missing the JHMCS which is a major issue, but, to gaijin, not enough to have it be at a lower BR. It should get the JHMCS regardless though.
lol i also ripped when i was blacking out and didnt throttle down enough or too slowly, the acceleration is genuinely so stupid, and since my mouse is old i cant scroll to 101, just 104 so i still end up too fast its kind of funny since most french jets are underpowered, and bam, now youve got TOO much power T_T
the thing is that they couldnt have copy pasted the US F-18 then
the finnish f-18 with the MLU, which gets a HMD, has a completly different cockpit ftom the US one
ontop of gaijin being lazy and went on copy-pasting they also copied the wrong cockpit for the finnish hornet
rn it gets the same cockpit as the F/A-18C late, even tho it should have the F/A-18C early cockpit
you can easily tell that because the finnish hornet has a knob in the cockpit controlling HMD brightness
as it stands i think the finnish F-18 was just a afterthought for this update
good example is all the US hornets getting atleast 1 ingame camo,
while the finnish one didnt get any and now only has a marketplace camo which is comunity made
