Oh shut it, it’s not like the US doesn’t already have 3 F-14s, japan is like 2 years past date for receiving the F-2.
But the US is suffering, they only got 3 new jets last update, how are they meant to cope with so few additions :P
The saddest part is, this thing is arguably even worse than Machbet.
Heck, there’s genuinely a case to be made that Namer (IFV) is our best AA. At least that thing has missiles that can take down helicopters lol.
Utterly depressing state of affairs.
I’m very happy for whoever is getting new AA this update - god knows everyone needs it, but man. I don’t think anyone needs it quite as desperately as this tree does, and I’ll be very disappointed if we get forgotten again, and left even further behind.
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Impressive, but you forgot to undo the Gaijin scramble, which is when you shift each letter forward by 6 in the alphabet.
Undoing this scramble instead gives us:
“Z C U I H G Z O G X I N L Z A G G P L P”.
From remembering the conveniently formed “T W O”, or “two (2)” in the scrambled state, we can tell that this result will then be partitioned by separating every two letters. This leaves us with two encoded hints:
“Z U H Z G I L A G L”
and
“C I G O X N Z G P P”
Z U H Z G I L A G L
Let’s do the first one first, because not only is it the first, meaning we should likely do it first, but also because it is the easiest.
Looking at the letters more closely reveals that quite clearly the letters perfectly write out “HUZZIGGAL”, which is the sound of a helicopters rotor blades in a silly made up US accent.
This not only indicates the first hint might be a helicopter, but also that it would be for the US tech tree.
C I G O X N Z G P P
Now, the second one is more tricky.
After looking at these letters intently for a long time, it became obvious that it doesn’t equal a word. Instead, I took a step back and tried your approach of equating them to the first letter of words in a sentence. The only issue here was that with only the first letters to work with, it seemed far too open ended.
Or so I thought!
When I entered the initials of each Gaijin employee backwards, I got the following result:
“HA RL ER SRE AT LY VE RJO YE DY LOP HO NE IP PO NEP PE LI NO ES HLY IN GW AR TH UND ER”
Using those same letters in this very order to complete the sentence now reveals a final riddle:
“Charles Is Greatly Overjoyed Xylophone Nippon Zeppelin Goes Phlying PWarThunder”
It is clear this riddle speaks of another hinted addition, and the inclusion of “Nippon” indicates a Japanese vehicle. But what kind is more difficult, hinging on two other words, one more difficult to decipher than the other.
The obvious part here is “Xylophone”, since those use metal, similar to a jet engine, indicating the vehicle in question might also use a jet engine.
However more difficult is “Zeppelin”, due to its seemingly arbitrary meaning with no relation to War Thunder i the slightest. Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a German man living in the late 19th century. He was most notably known for his mustache, something he had in common with popular 80s actor Tom Selleck.
From this we can tell the hint has to do with a movie, specifically one of the 1980s, however since Ferdinand Zeppelin isn’t Tom Selleck the clue must be hidden in one without Tom Selleck. One option clearly stands out here, being 1989s Indiana Jones and the last Crusade, which prominently featured a scene with an airship, which now clearly relates back to War Thunder. From that we can deduce that the vehicle in question must fly.
So the second hint here indicates a Japanese jet aircraft addition.
So to sum it all up, Gaijin’s hint likely goes something like this:
“There will be a helicopter for the USA and a jet for Japan”
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smartest forum user revealed? 5D chess while we are playing linear checkers
I have like 60 air kills on the Namer 30. Some including planes. With the Macbeth you have to pray that a missile isn’t coming at you (it is) and its missiles are relatively easy to flare. Moreover the range is bad (6Km front-aspect-11Km rear aspect although forget rear aspect) and it’s maximum speed is like Mach 2. The planes have already launched their missiles by the time you lock onto the aircraft. At least it’s got a gun. Same goes for the Chaparral. Bad thing about the Chaparral is that you can’t lead the missile so it has to take all the Gs to turn for the aircraft. Oh, and forget about helicopters with the missiles (much less about the russian ones).
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if i could give you an award i would!
Aye, both Machbet and Chaparral are woeful. The only reasons I rate Machbet slightly better than Chaparral is because you can actually lead stingers, and because it has the cannon if a Heli is rocket rushing (Chaparal straight up cannot even hit something like a Ka52 - every missile will miss thanks to IRCM).
Both are terrible options for top tier. Neither have the range to hit things firing AGM’s before they launch, and neither have the ability to intercept AGM’s post launch.
All you can do is sit there and helplessly watch missiles come for you. It’s depressing.
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I once had a helicopter in front of me but I couldn’t do anything about it as he was too far. It’s understandable that the SPAAs are useless at top tier but when you have no other options, it’s the only thing you can spawn and hope for something. CAP is quite costly so if I want to do something else I just spawn an AH-60 with 8 ATAS and start slinging them to the enemy planes that pass by I currently have 42 air kills on it. It’s just sad, hope Israel does get something useful in the next update, though I’m still afraid of helicopters with ARH and IR missiles on SPAAs.
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Is this what happens when someone overdoses on forum
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Yup.
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Only 4 missiles with 12 km range, Pantsir with 12 missiles with 18 km range. This won’t move the balance needle at all.
and 12km range probably means around 6km front aspect lock range like the type 81C. I dont think this is an attempt to give an equivalent to the Pantsir but more likely a way to test for next gen air-to-air IR missiles with “unflareable” seekers by first adding them in an spaa. With how Gaijin has been behaving since they added the Pantsir i think they intentionally dont want anyone to have an equivalent, at least not anytime soon.
In theory, it shouldnt be limited in lock range (except where clouds become an issue), but the addition of the radar (at least I assume it has a radar) does allow for something akin to LOAL to get the missile out that far.
There is also options for the extended range IRIS-Ts in the future, but I reckon the main purpose of the SLS is to figure out how to model/balance IIR seekers. And that is a keypoint because there would be 0 RWR warning once fired (i know there rarely is with the Pantsir too, but still, every little helps)
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We really needed SLM to even make a dent on balance. I don’t know why Gaijin won’t give a SEAD type experience in GRB. It would shift the focus to SEAD instead of CAS and give tank players a bit of a break.
Helicopters would take the role of CAS and tank destroyers instead.
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How about you fix the horrible decision by the devs last update to utterly kill naval gameplay that has led to the massive protest, multiple threads, polls, and complaints from naval players, that has led to a drop in players and disinterest by those most dedicated to the game mode in playing ANY form of naval until it is fixed?
How about even the most basic comment or reply to that, given this is a community update, and the naval community is, largely, up in arms about this decision?
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“The naval community” im sorry but gaijin has already acknowledged all 5 of you for this year with a naval update.
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FMA Pulqui I, II or Namcu?
Would go along with the Falklands theme…
Naval player here.
The Irony is, if you play NRB instead of NAB the changes last update were pretty awesome. Top tier Naval hasnt been this good in a while and even lower BRs are pretty fun, sure the AI bots are a little dull to fight, but its more fun than sitting in a queue for 20 minutes.
The only real failure imo is the compression instead of decompression. Moving ships like HMS Invincible and HMS Glorious down into light cruiser BR territory instead of moving the top performing 7.0s up even just 0.3 was just immensley dumb, but hopefully, so long as they dont add ships like Yamato straight into 7.0 and actually increase the BR limit, we might actually see that decompression finally start