I am a great fan of Russian planes, but there is something i do not understand, how is it possible that the su-27/33 cannot mount R-77 missiles, when IRL they obviously can?
I feel that the only reason this has been done is to make people use mig-29s in multiplayer, and maybe to give an handicap to the su-27/33 BVR capabilities agains the f-15, but this is IMO unacceptable because of the following reasons:
the f-15 is more capable of engaging su-27/33, they do not need any special favours.
the su-27/33 needs to be able to engage multiple targets simultaneously, like it can IRL taking advantage of its the more powerful radar compared to the mig-29.
mig-29 were designed as a lighter, cheap, shorter range version of the su-27, but still capable of carrying the same weapons. to me it makes no sense that they can use more advanced missiles than their big sukhoi's brothers while being inferior in all other aspects.
Does anyone have some good explanation? am i the only one bothered by this?