This will probably remove the unique ability of the Japanese air tree that you can grind to top tier by only researching two branches (Zero branch and land based fighter branch). Nevertheless its a very nice addition!
It just kinda sucks seeing new additions and then learning that they are almost identical to stuff found in other trees. Edit: to expand on this, I really don’t want another F-84G until they remove its airspawn, and I don’t want any more F5s until they fix its damage model and IT signature.
People are just fed up with copy/paste, and for a good reason.
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I know people who don’t play japan are seeing this as a bunch of copy paste mid, but y’all gotta understand we HAD NO CAS and 2 JETS.
This is AMAZING for us Japan players, as (besides the F-84) all of the Jets we got are some of the best and fun jets we could have got. (Alpha Jets Gripens and F-5’s YEAAAAAAHHHH)
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Yes. And also many people who supported a Thai sub TT in Japan should know that it would consist of mostly/exclusively western equipment (with minor modifications). Not many countries have enough own vehicles to fill out even a sub TT, so ‘‘copy/paste’’ cannot be avoided.
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I agree. Even the Japanese helicopter tree is very mediocre. More CAS options for Japan is the most justified thing in the next update.
Hell, when I was looking into it a few months ago and found out Thai subtree for Japan could mean having the best F-5 variant, one of the best F-15 variants, a great F-16 variant and a Gripen in the same tech tree, I was hyped as hell. This is the variety I like, it’s the reason I chose Italy as my second grind, the top tier offers SO MUCH in terms of variety.
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Wow more copy paste Gaijin I’m so proud of you. Why don’t you fix the issues with the game already. Existing vehicles, look into the game modes, maybe even creating new game modes that would give us new things to play. The cash cow wont last forever when you run out of vehicles to add.
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Needed what another F-16 and a Alpha Jet?
From an outsider perspective and from someone who has chatted with Jap mains. I would hold concern that this is Japan getting the Gripen this update instead of the F-2.
Perhaps it should have been the Thai tree minus the F-16 and Gripen. Get the native built F-2 instead and had those come as fillers next year.
Would have made a lot more sense as it seem Gaijin passes out F-16, Gripen out like candy to whatever nation is underperforming.
As well as a Harrier (doesn’t perform like it should) and a A7E very original.
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Just time to wait for the Ukrainian F-16 and Gripen for the Soviet tree next :D
It is very annoying and with your Sim heavy play style you cannot even use aircraft visual ID to determine if its friendly as every nation has so many of the same plane.
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Yeah, in part, that is something that puts me off certain aircraft/BRs in Sim, I just cant be bothered to try and VID friendly X aircraft from foe X aircraft.
Yes I know its an F-4 but is it German, American, British, Israeli, Japanese, ect. lol
Also I don’t think the Ukrainian player base will be too happy about there stuff being with the Russian stuff. I could also be wrong though.
If anyone is listening, please add the Firefly to the new Thai tech tree (either the Mark I or IV, ). Japan is hurting badly for a Rank 3 strike aircraft. The Thai Firefly has a lovely livery and one is preserved in Thailand’s air force museum. Put a Ki-98 at 4.7 and we’ll pretty much solve Japan’s mid tier strike aircraft gap. There are also a lot of potential awesome WWII Thai skins of Japanese planes.
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Trust me, F-15J(M) certainly doesn’t underperform in air-to-air. It was just the lack of proper CAS and the emptiness of the TT, lack of variety.
Last time I checked, the nation in-game was called USSR, not Russia.
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I might hope gajin could add F-16A Block 15 ADF because AIM-120C AMRAAM capability and IR AAM AIM-9P-4 & AIM-9M-9 but no JHMCS
Now gajin lazy AIM-9P-4 to replace AIM-9L on ROCAF F-16A MLU
Personally, I think F-5T SCU would be 13.3 max
Well, USSR doesn’t need any sub-tree, unlike Japan for example.
And don’t say “Just look at the camo.” People keep saying “Just look at the camo” as a solution to copy-paste
Planes become black silhouettes pretty quickly, and having to face check can and will kill you.
This is the amount of detail visible at ~800 meters or less.
And this is in prop tier combat with relatively slow closure speeds and knife-distance gunfights.
Silhouettes are pretty important.
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