those are premium bias. now after ninth wave 30mkk players carry r77’s anyway, so its not fully chinese. another example: the prem f16 in the french tree. belgium f16 is 13.7, the prem f16 is 13.7. completely identical, copy paste. but prem f16 has hmd, tech tree f16 does not. both aircraft have JHMCS irl. if you want hmd, you gotta pay.
actual tree itself sucks. j15t, my lowest k/d 14.7. 47% win rate in 138 matches around 1.5 kd (i didnt play too much due to it obviously sucking “SKILL ISSUE!!!11!!”
i dont like the sm2, its not that special but even with that my kd is 2.4 in it. 48 countermeasures is just insane. i have no idea what that thing was added for before EW.
j10c, just a mid aircraft. lower than normal countermeasures, mid engines (or just high drag with full a2a missiles, it doesnt accelerate), mid flight model, that thing hates slow speeds. gets beaten by: rafale, typhoon, gripen, 30sm2. carries barely any fuel, on a full tank it usually doesn’t last the entire match. if you wanna carry drop tanks, you got a sacrifice a missile.
f16v: funnily enough, i play this aircraft more. it has so little missiles, but atleast it has good missiles that pulls better and goes further. has more countermeasures, flight model isnt half bad. yet, it has like 6 missiles only so you don’t matter too much in the game.
j16: nothing meta changing. normal amount of countermeasures just gives breathing room and is actually playable and not outright cancerous.
PL-12/PL12A: the real reason china is so bad right now. its stats say it pulls 38 g’s. does it? no. at the ABSOLUTE BEST CONDITIONS, it pulls 25g’s. so usually, it pulls lower than that. gets outranged by amraam, r77-1. and even the sparrow is recieving a buff. which means, the only rollable fox 3 in the game is pl-12 and pl-12a.
russia recieved fake pylons, 30sm doesn’t carry 12 r77-1’s. 35 does, not sm. china doesnt have that.
“those are top tier i meant the entire tree!!” j11b has 6 pl12’s even though su27sm has 8 r77’s. i think i read somewhere 27sm doesnt have 8 r77’s irl lol. the thing that makes j11b bad is once again, the missiles themselves.
the ONLY, ONLY tolerable plane to fly in china is the j10a, its good for its br, and now the j16. china doesn’t have anything.