You keep saying that jamming is always equal or worse to stealth in most scenarios— I completely agree. If you gave UEF T3 air counter intel parity with Cybran it would be roughly as good as Cybran air. Right now it’s noticeably not as good.
If you don't mind me saying, I doubt it would be nearly as strong as Cybran... again, you can see exactly where the unit(s) is and in what direction its moving in. Even with jamming, an experienced player can guestimate how many units are actually on screen.
My whole point was that if UEF T3 air was as good as Cybran it would make UEF unbalanced. It already has the best T3 naval (Neptunes are anti meta because they are good against frig spam) and the best T3 land that synergistically fills in the weakness of its siege T4 land unit. The game balance is supposed to be holistic, every faction isn’t supposed to be equally powerful in every arena at every tech level…
Hard to say but every faction has its strengths and weaknesses. But overall, I wouldn't say UEF has the best Navy. It has the most diverse options but we know that Cybran and Aeon have T2 Subs, and Sera ahs the submersible destroyer. UEF has horrendous torpedo defense on its units except for one.
Furthermore, I’m saying all this with the context of Jip saying jamming will be buffed soon. Jamming as is is a different beast entirely because it gets owned the first time vision goes over it.
The change mentioned by Jip is live on FAF Develop... but to save you some time, all it does is reactivate jamming every 15 seconds. So basically the fake radar signatures refresh on their own. An experienced player would have to manually do this every now and then - all this change does is ensure that Jamming refreshes ocasonally without the need to manually do it.
On another note, Jamming on the Strat in FAF dev doesn't change much, either. As long as the Main unit is scouted - it's as if jamming doesn't exist. AA will still target the main unit rather than the fake signatures - until the main unit is lost, again.
~ Stryker