America almost always gets the worst modification of their vehicles
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Yea and it’s extremely lame and scummy on gaijin’s part
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Wow, the F-20 got buffed.
Yeah Higher rip speed
Hay they increased the F-15Is engine thrust again, its now 10,020
Lovely
just so you know there are 6 premiums and 6 new models in this update… take that as you wish…
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wonder why no replies yet
really wonder.
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out of touch Devs
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@Smin1080p_WT Are you able to give us any information on the blatant gimping of the American F-15E for “balance” by the devs, or if the posts and poll we are doing is actually helping possibly change anything? Are we just wasting our time and America yet again is receiving a worse version of their own vehicle?
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Yea it’s getting very frustrating checking here every day and getting no real response from the devs, seems like they just want to ignore it and hope we forget about it
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if it makes you feel any better, they increased the thrust of the f15I… because that gimps it even more…
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So? Are we gonna wait till F-4S discounts off and there is no 229 on US F-15E?
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well, im not sure which sources or which facts you are after but if its about the ratio of pw220s to pw229s in the fleet, the only source i have seen suggests that ZERO pw220s are in the fleet, as only the 220E remains in service, but I am pretty sure the answer isnt zero there, although it could be, since the original 220s and 229 were of different sized meaning that replacements would mean reworking the entire tail section. It could be the same issue moving between the 220 and 220E. still though most are the upgraded 220Es if anything. Big issue there is that many sources will just use 220 to refer to both the 220 and the 220E which arent the same.
I think it’s pretty obvious that there isnt really a way that either of us can prove one way or another, other than some random news article that states things without backing them up. I have seen both ways in these articles, one says there are no 220s in service anymore, one says its 50/50, i think the truth is somewhere in the middle if anything. Again the argument i make here doesnt exist in a vacuum and really, I do not need to prove exactly how many 229s are in service to justify gaijins need to change it. As long as a significant portion of the strike eagles carry the 229 engine, gaijins current iteration and its justification are bullshit.
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I won’t say that we’re getting impatient… but… it’s quite easy to make a statement on the engines of the F15E right now. I see no reason why gaijin can’t make and release a statement on them right now. It does feel like they’re making us wait so that we can forget it.
I hope some CM can give us some sort of news this week. Hopefully a good one.
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And now we’re going into the weekend with no comment from them, iirc we don’t get dev server updates on the weekend so this is gonna suck
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A lot of people on here are arguing that the F-15C will be better at dogfighting than the I will, so gaijin might as well add the 229 to the strike eagle, because that is the only logic here that gaijin provided in order to nerf the strike eagle.
I’m not a huge fan of this argument because of how subjective performance can be, and the fact that it is getting less and less relevant as we get more advanced weapons. Here’s MY gripe: why is that an excuse to nerf an aircraft??? It certainly is not an acceptable one, to nerf it based on its performance compared to another aircraft within the same tech tree is unprecedented. As a matter of fact a lot of what gaijin does seems to be flying by the seat of their pants.
This decision doesn’t seem to have been made with any real consideration for the fact that America is by far, the most mirrored nation in matches. They are always on both teams. Israel is hardly ever mirrored, because of the number of people who play them in RB.
The effect of this is that one team will have an aircraft capable of curb stomping everything and the other side wont. This can’t have been a balance decision because it is going to be the reason the game is unbalanced, we would not have a problem there if the US Strike Eagle got the 229 engine.
Another thing for gaijin to consider is that even if there is some counterargument or hitherto untold factor that influenced their decision to gimp the strike eagle, there is no way for them to argue any further than “its a mixed bag.” And that simply won’t do if the decision that they made is going to anger a large portion of the community. 88% to be precise. I am surprised at the number of people in here complaining about this considering the fact that the F-15 I sits at the top of the smallest tech tree and is the most easily accessible top tier in the game. The people here aren’t really just upset about balance or history or any other thing so much as they are upset about the principle that israel should get the better eagle because Gaijin said so.
I tend to agree, it is quite aggravating, especially when we get 800 people together to say that gaijin should change this, and there is absolutely zero response from the devs.
If gaijin cares a fig about how they are viewed by their players, then they will give the Strike Eagle the engines it deserves. The 220s were the wrong move, especially after they come out in the dev stream and practically admitted that their motives were probably monetary. I think that their current stance on the issue will cost them more money from a PR standpoint than whatever they hoped to gain by exploiting their players. They can expect scathing reviews over this if it goes live in its current state
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Just wanted to add that MatAWG did a video comparing the 2 in a dogfight, and it really comes down to pilot skill with these 2 https://youtu.be/IbKcJbP4jWY?si=TjXzdIPj5EeSr0Cv
So it’s basically just as good as the C in a dogfight, which is another reason why gaijin’s statement makes no sense
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Exactly it’s not better, and you need the extra power if you are taking an air to ground loadout
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