I get it, In terms of balancing i understand some things have to be changed or modified. but the current state of top tier Air RB is, Fox 3 spam, AOA maneuvers and HMD. The F18c (Finnish) gets 2 of those while Su30sm, F18c American, F15e, Rafale, F16c the list goes on all gets HMD the F16 doesn’t get AOA button. Most planes that are announced in the current top tier meta without HMD are mainly DOA, within the past couple days of the update, I’ve encountered only roughly 10 Finnish f18’s while I’ve seen a roughly a couple hundred F18 American counterparts. major difference one gets HMD one doesn’t, yeah the F18 Finnish did get HMD with the Mlu1 and mlu2 packages, but ur gonna tell me the Jas39A didn’t have HMD never did. gets it in game. but the Finnish line F18 is going to get a copy paste F18C with a MLU2 package? nah. the F18C Finnish has 0 ground pound. it gets 12 missiles that’s it. the fact it doesn’t get HMD kills it. Gaijin do what’s right give it the Mlu1 package or at least the mlu2 package you don’t have to give it the Retrofitted upgrade that came in 2012. just give it hmd. otherwise just like the F16am in the French tree it’ll be out classed out performed and dead
iirc current finnish f18 flies way better than fa18c in us tree
but bruh
yeah but at the end of the day i’d rather have HMD than manuverability in top tier its just wrong that the USA gets HMD and the Finnish one does not at the same br. MLU1 on the f18 would bring it up to par with USA, and if Gaijin wants them to be different just leave it with no air to ground the Jas39 is already a great cas plane.
I understand how hard it is for you… so I suggest deleted the finnish F-18 from the game to make it an exclusive part of the US tech tree❤️
I am grinding the Finnish F-18C but not yet there. Its soooo much grind …
I haven‘t seen any Finnish F-18 in AirSB so far, all I see are american ones. These days most of the AirSb are Sweden paired with russia, china, germany, … This bothers me. I get the Hornets all turned against me in my Viggen JA37Di. I get a 10% chance to kill it, but after the first two turns I am done.
BR12 to BR14, right now, all Hornet … Like the Fuji spam on ground
I bought the premium j35 at the Finnish Celebration Festival, I too almost lost most of my energy as soon as I turned the second lap … Still working on the Finnish MiG 21, I’m also aiming for the Finnish f18c, but I’m more excited about what will be added in the future than this one right now…
Your claim had me skeptical, so I went to the flight models and found out that the Finnish F-18 is almost 800kg lighter.
You right.
@Dezekrys
And I’d rather have no HMD so if I need ACM I can get there in one key press.
see thats the issue Flight models alone don’t win dog fights look at the F16am, better Flight model then the F16c but worse radar, worse engine, and no hmd. and its 13.7 and its never played.
I play the F-18C finnish and grinding for the Gripens and yes that’s totally fucked up we don’t have the HMD on this plane.
Once you get a missile to notch, the opponents just have to follow you and spam and you can’t retaliate because you don’t have any HMD while they basically ALL have one.
Yeah because this plane is stuck in BR 14 while being inferior, you’ll almost never be downtiered.
So yeah, there are absolutely no reason historically nor ever that this plane doesn’t receive any HMD but Gaijin being greedy and cheap again in his strategy to give us player the most frustration possible to make us buy their WAAAAAAY overpriced pixel planes.
Just make players look at them the wrong way, and for anyone’s information, I bought them 3 premiums top tiers in a year or so, never won anything worthy in their roulette or whatever else BS shiny dust they toss at us from times to times.
So yes Gaijin, your honest move is to give this plane its HMD, the CAS can wait for an upgrade if you want to do it like this so much… but give the damn HMD to this plane NOW!