Yeah, much better options for squad than the 117
I have yet to succeed in surpassing my 28 kill streak in GRB with the SHAR 2 doing gods work defending ground from enemy planes sadly :<
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The Singapore one will end up wherever Singapore ends up. Either Japan, china or commonwealth in Britain. I’ve even heard a good argument for Singapore going to Israel I think.
Just because the US exported it, doesn’t mean they get every US aircraft.
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Nice. I’d do the same if I could be bothered with the 11.7 tanks. Though at least I can get access to the FA2 without uptiering myself to top tier now. One good thing about the latest BR change
here’s the difference between the Ratel and the Nighthawk…
The Ratel can actually do things. The Nighthawk will be a mid tier jet most likely, with no countermeasures, a bomb load too small to take out bases or significant amounts of ground targets (meaning it cant contribute to the team in that regard), and it can’t even kill enemy planes.
That means this plane, if its on your team in air battles… Contributes NOTHING to your team. That’s not a good thing.
I actually want to see a mechanic where GBUs are given a damage multiplier Vs bases. Give a reason to take the usually smaller GBU load on aircraft in ARB/ASB. Would be interesting. Like at the moment, I’d never bother with GBUs in sim on the tornado Gr1 because I can do more damage with the regular bombs.
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That’s not what the leaks indicate, and they’ve been right on the money so far.
I also have a suspicion that Gaijin is changing up how they do Dreams Come True, making what normally would’ve been the big ticket item int squadron vehicles so that everybody will have a chance to play it if they want. Would be in line with them not wanting unique vehicles/playstyles being locked behind events anymore, at least from what I understand/heard.
And the leak list before the last update said Britain was getting HMS Warspite as an event vehicle and before that, it was a premium if I’m not mistaken. Leak lists are never 100%. I think it could go either way, but aircraft in the past like the Su-25BM which tested R-73s was an event
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So by that standard, we shouldnt ever add planes which would suffer in air RB and only have a real optional use in GRB? I mean if we go on that standard buccaneers wouldnt really be in the game as an example as their air combat ability is “meme” existance of 2 inch rockets and hopium missile use.
In GRB it will do fine though, a couple LGBs is similar levels of loadout to other planes, if it has some stealth protection vs radar systems it would give it a cross boon too, not to mention iirc it gets the phat bombs too right?
Also a lot of people consider ratels to be next to worthless, just sayin. (I dont, i get nukes with them on the semi regular when in the mood for using them, but still)
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IIRC they “have” gotten event vehicles mixed up before too, was early this year IIRC where event vehicles were on the list as normal or squadron, I forget. Maybe BP vehicles.
Unless memory is failing me.
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here’s what you’re failing to understand. THE BUCC CAN AT LEAST DO SOMETHING STILL
The Bucc is bad yes, but it CAN defend itself, it CAN bomb bases and objectives to help the team.
THE NIGHTHAWK CANNOT DO EITHER
this is the difference-
the nighthawk has the bombing power of a rank 2 dive bomber. But is likely gonna sit at like 7.0-8.0
Personally, I think the thing that sells me on the idea of the F-117 being squadron over event is that Gaijin would probably make more money in the long run. The vehicle has a lot of starpower, you can’t buy and sell event vehicles on console, and volume can easily make up for not having another vehicle that gets overpriced on the marketplace.
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No? I got it, and all it has is bombs. It literally cannot defend itself. Can it bomb bases? Sure, but with how fighter focused Gaijin has AB, RB, and SIM, it’s not much better then the F-117.
no it’s leagues better than an F-117.
It’s pretty meh in ground RB. It can’t protect against saclos missile AA at high tier.
It’s better, but not by leagues. Sure, it does have a better bombload, but it’s still useless in practice if you aren’t in ground. It still has the fundamental problem of not being able to defend itself. The F-117 at least has stealth technology.
Only the S1 at 8.7. Both the S2 and S2B gets missiles.
not a single devblog for the update today… ngl kinda disappointed
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