İs it just me or Gaijin fucked up the F-104S and G’s BR ? Like Who is retarded enough to think about putting a F-104 at a BR where Fox-1 missiles out range the NASSA Radar found on F-104’s anyway ? you can’t even shoot back since they are out of your lock range and can’t notch either. so You can’t climb and Boom and Zoom no more. turning a “İnterceptor” to “One way Bomber”. F-104S.ASA should be at 11.3 and F-104S and g at 10.7. That’s what I think. Mig-21S can doge Aim-7E’s anyway or Milan or any 9.7BR Jet anyways and F-104G now be more enjoyable.
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I completely agree with this, but saying the Mig-25 is better than them in every way is a bit of a stretch.
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F-104S is faster <12,000 meters altitude.
Has napalm for more rewards.
Has a gun for aircraft and ground striking.
As well as good air to air weapons.
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I reckon that you brought up the worst reasons to defend F-104S…
Probably Gaijin thinks like that and sent them overtiered, though.
I really wonder why the heck A2G capability affects BR of ARB when the current gamemode has nearly no effect by A2G combat because current Air-RB are heavily concentrated on A2A dogfights.
But yeah, probably ‘10 times better’ take was hyperbole of OP?
Considering I won a 1v1 against a Mig-21Bis or something more powerful by ground striking with the F-104S.
Unless ground units get removed from air RB, bringing up air to ground will always be useful.
I don’t think bringing up the rare personal experience for the discussion, but okay…
F-104S probably has some good points over MiG-21bis. won by a2g isn’t impossible, unlike ‘winning argument against dumb person’, probably Bill Murray’s speaking, I guess.
What I meant is, it is less viable SIGNIFICANTLY than having air-to-air capability.
Because majorities match in jets with reheaters end up with ‘no active players remain in enemy team’ type of annihilation, not cutting down the ground target for tickets.
But, Gaijin overestimates it because they balance BR by average reward netting.
For example, it is nothing but a pure joke that Harrier GR.7 and F-15A shares same BR.
F-104S might not ten times worse than MiG-25 at 0.3BR lower, unlike OP’s take.
But the current balancing of Gaijin is just bizarre.
They just overestimate nearly every ground attacker jet in this game.
You know what I meant. right?
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Funny how air to ground only comes imto play in games featuring the mig25…
25 mins of nothing/ shooting AI is how it usually goes.
are the ‘good air to air weapons’ in the room with us now?