Theoretically speaking, what will top tier meta look like if or when Gaijin implements full on realism with ECM, no multipathing, current gen unflarable IR missiles?
Is this even balance-able? Or is the meta just going to shift to “whoever shoots first and hope you are far enough away to survive”?
yeah its a little more complicated than that with FOX-3s
MP is just a crutch to help you if your stock without it would genuinely be immpossible to stock grind at toptier
I disagree any opinion to remove multipathing before Gaijin add stock chaff
and stock full load of 1 st gen fox-3s as pretty much every country has a upgraded missile
Should be removed but a) give everyone free chaff b) teach everyone to use chaff c) make maps less flat so even if you run out of chaff you could use terrain. Or you could save some chaff that way.
Anything besides braindead lawnmowing.
a realistic implementation of Multipathing and SARH/ARH seeker head behaviour with ground clutter would Seriously rebalance all aircraft above 10.7
as an Example for why it isn’t implemented: in the Manual for the Su-27 it is stated that R-27ER cannot attack targets flying below the aircraft if flying below 3000m of altitude and the target is further away than 2000m
that would mean a Realistic implementation of Multipathing would make R-27 Unusable
on the other side the Implementation would seriously increase the effectiveness of AIM-7E2 And later Sparrow variants and AIM-120 (All) which would lead to an imbalance in all gamemodes that would essentially remove all Russian aircraft from relevance
in the current implementation all SARH/ARH Missile seekers are modelled like the most advanced western type and given specific parameters to allow for a feelable difference in the missiles
this is related to Multipathing
For realistic battle modes, multipathing is absolutely needed, at least the moment.
Everything else would result in an absolute shitshow.
BVR only works against people who are unable to defend missiles normally and are only capable of turning cold or abusing MP. Even getting pinched from 2+ angles is survivable if you have some decent knowledge on notching/missile defense
edit: attached an example
Jets from early 2000 also use ECM/EW pods
I agree that MP should be made realistic but then jets should atleast have stock chaff