Community Update No.7: Talking About What’s Coming Soon!

[BlitzKriegerツ]

Sounds like some great things are in the works. Seems to be very well received. Good luck with implementing everything!

[UNN_Daedalos]

Good news overall

@magazine2

Scouting through Scout UAVs

In Ground Battles right now, it’s not possible to scout enemy targets through the Scout UAV. However, many players still take advantage by switching to a Scout UAV, put a mark, return to their tank and try to scout targets using this mark. We want to make this method a normal and balanced game mechanic by making it part of the core gameplay, so we are making some changes to how it works.

We will make it so that you can now scout enemy players directly from the Scout UAV. There will also be some changes to the cooldown — when you have a Scout UAV in the air, the cooldown after a successful scout is three times as big, and the spawn point reduction for aircraft will be decreased by two times as well. However, the rewards in RP, SL and mission points have not changed.

With this change, players will be able to scout from the Scout UAV instead of needing to switch back to their tank after placing a mark in order to try and get a scout (however, this method will still be here for those who want to do it). At the same time, the scout cooldown when you have a Scout UAV in the air will be longer to balance it out, and the spawn point cost reduction of planes has decreased, but the rewards will remain the same.

That one has me worried though. Scouting is already quite strong as is, and while the cooldown is 3x higher, i fear this may not be enough to balance this out, especially at top tier where a drone can directly see with IR camera

[ThiccoIai]

@Rinhord

Who asked for new nuke planes?

Uh… basically everyone was asking for new nuke planes. Do you even play top tier?

[Rarefss]

What about subtrees

[Master_Teaz]

we already had swiss air

with this we’re getting Thai Ground, thats a subtree

[Kweedko]

@magazine2

In the future (follow the news!) we’re planning some changes to how spawn points work for aircraft in Ground Realistic and Naval Arcade / Realistic Battles.

How does it work currently? To give you a refresher: if you spawn the same class of aircraft twice, the SP cost for the second spawn increases (so if you spawn an AD-2 and then an AM-1, for example). But it does not increase if you spawn again in a different class of aircraft — which effectively means you can spawn a fighter, attacker/bomber aircraft one after the other at the default cost.

How will it work instead? The spawn cost of the second and subsequent planes you spawn in Ground Realistic and Naval Realistic / Arcade Battles will be determined by the ordinance you used with the previously spawned aircraft, and won’t be impacted by aircraft class. As an example, if you spawn an aircraft with bombs, the cost to spawn another aircraft equipped with bombs increases, even if the class is not the same.

There will be effectively two types of aircraft spawns in regards to SP, fighters (aircraft of any class equipped with air-to-air missiles or no additional weaponry at all) and aircraft equipped with “Strike weapons” (bombs, rockets, AGMs, torpedoes, mines, AP piercing belts).

Two more specific examples include:

• If you spawn a P-47 with bombs (strike weapons) for 600 SP and get shot down, the cost to spawn it again with a backup with no strike weapons will be at the default cost (540 SP).
• If you take a fighter with one bomb (like a Spitfire), the next aircraft you spawn with strike weaponry will increase, and not for fighter aircraft with no strike weapons.

Overall, this changes the SP cost of additional aircraft spawns from a class-based system to a weapon-based system, which is much more streamlined and works more effectively with the intentions of the mechanic. The actual class of an aircraft is almost arbitrary, when it’s the weaponry that actually has an impact. In addition to this being an overall fairer way to distribute spawn cost, this will also result in less strike-capable planes in ground battles, as now it will be more difficult to spawn these aircraft multiple times.

How about No for the Naval modes, we need more planes in naval gameplay not less(we need Air wing respawns with bots following you like in “scenario maps”, not less respawns with bigger costs). It will kill fighters in naval. Increased reload in air for fighters already more than enough disadvantage, i bet you didn’t though to increase reload for fighters to bomber level with that change, which no one asked for naval modes, where Air almost not exist in RB and have disadvantage in AB for fighters.

[Rarefss]

the number of players from these countries is not even 3%, Poland, Ukraine, Türkiye and South Korea should be added to the game at least the player numbers are high

[NoreZi]

Like you read forum and our beggers and listened them. Already excited.

@Smin1080p_WT

To clarify, In the next major update, we won’t be adding a VT-4 to the Thailand sub tree.

So T-84BM Oplot? @Smin1080p_WT

[TheSlavicDragon1]

Or S-350.

[SwagBelly]

if u are better than normal with ur controlls this is a huge nerf as time and sp nerf will affect how much targets re scouted by you, i have no idea why with 3x cooldwon nerf we are not getting more sl and rp rewards, this just means less reason to scout for good players overall and little more scouts for bad players

[Nomikoma_Sen]

When will F-16C’s, F-16D, F-15C’s, and JAS39C’s get the Aim-120C? Same goes for the Mig-29SMT, Su-27SM, and Su-34 getting the R-77-1.

There’s 0 reasons to not add them, and they are all very known to carry those missiles possibly even more than the first variants of the missiles that you have them stuck with.

Literally have not flown top tier for this reason and would love to come back, but simply won’t fly these aircrafts until you fix this MAJOR issue.

[Minc3ra-live]

its not like the aim120c is anything worth getting disappointed over, its a sidegrade at best and in some circumstances just straight up worse

[Mitchverr]

@quartas121

There’s only so many aircraft that sting

Gnat bites also sting ;)

[vizender]

Did those Russian aircraft carry the r-77-1 ? From my understanding, at least the mig29 is an older version and the r-77-1 is quite a recent upstage to the missile

[sadhumaniod-psn]

Uhm ngl i would love to buy the £4 pack but yk due to mine being a ps4 account although i play on pc now i simply cannot, when will this change as im missing out on alot of stuff due to this please help me change this

[Chimera109]

I really appreciate posts like this because of the transparency and it’s actually engaging with the community, please do more of this.

[Zulizia]

I mean, in a leak it was a premium. Likely will come at some point during the major update or after. Not to mention Germany didn’t even get their PzH2000 for ages either. Or Japan with the F-2.

[pooqich]

god i wish…

[Lovecraft2]

cough mapping cough gamemodes cough

[Zulizia]

@danredda

Because we already have an F-16A with AMRAAMs - and it’s at 13.7. I don’t see them making it lower than this unless they also reduce this one. Derby is quite a bit worse than AMRAAM, and the F-16D also has a worse FM.

F-16A OCU has IRCCM missiles and can slave IR missiles.

So… probably 13.3. Put it at 13.7 and its the worst. Put it at 13.3 and its better than the Israeli counterpart. Compression at its finest.

edit - nvm, F-16D also has HMS. I’d still imagine it goes to 13.3, as it doesn’t have HMS but does have better ARH. Sort of like how the F-5E FCU has more missiles, but the F-5T SCU has HMD.