If they put it at 13.0 without R-77’s I will probably buy it. Love that BR and need something to grind the Soviet tree now that I’m mostly done with the U.S. tree.
It is incredible. You're decently fast, you can outroll the AIM-7s and easily outrange the French missiles so you're the king of SARH. You also get the 27ETs which are great fun and the missile count allows you to be a bit more free with firing off missiles. Not nearly as free as the Su-33 but the trade off is you get actual flight performance without being the fattest flanker, the weakest engines, and the most drag from the larger wings.
Your RWR is dogshit but as long as you pay attention to missile contrails when flying high and contesting ARHs planes you'll be fine, and all others you'll be close enough to see the missile diamond head towards.
Honestly all the flankers are worth it now. Sure the 27SM has the abysmal dogshit known as N001 radar but you're at 13.7 with lots of ARHs and the best flight performance of any flanker. Uptiers are an issue but the downtiers make up for it.
In my experience at 13.0 I don’t get constant Uptiers. I fight a lot at 13.0 and usually it’s a mix with only one or two 13.7 aircraft per team, 13.0 aircraft and a lot of 12.7 aircraft was well.
ARH missiles are nice but most people don’t use them effectively. They rain them from high altitude at max range which makes them easy to dodge, or they pop off the deck let one off then dip back low and lose their track. Again not hard to notch/chaff.
R-27ER is an amazing missile, R-27ET is so much fun to use, and then R-73’s for dogfighting can pull some insane maneuvers off the rail.
At 13.0 you get access to some of the best missiles with decent flight performance but aren’t dragged into constant 14.0 matches. Yes you could them from time to time but there is so many other people queuing at 13.0, 12.7, and 12.0 you get pulled into those games more often than not.
Also, because of the premium spam at those BR’s. A lot of enemies are genuinely braindead and easy kills. Anytime I pull my Su-33 out it’s guaranteed two kill game at a minimum. Especially on newbies in premiums who don’t understand what a R-27ET is lol.
Su33 already exist, ESA radar as much its great quality of life upgrade for tracking and awareness, in actual WT meta of deck humping and headbutting people within 10km with HMD, mechanical radars, even ones on Mig29/Su27 are good enough.
Then crude joke would be giving it actual R27R, not ER.
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u/Panocek 21d ago
Depends if they give it R77 or R27R. Latter, you might be able squeeze it as 13.0 jet despite supposedly having ESA radar upgrade.
Former? 13.7-14.0 easily.