Major Update "Firebirds" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 2)

Are you not satisfied with a premium Kv-1 last update that was a last hope for a heavy tank that would be in a normal tt?

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We can still pretend gaijin would ever willingly model a krv

There isn’t much we can go off of to guess as the two most likely candidates, the F-117 and the KV-7, were both shown in the trailer, unless Russia has some other tank that fits the leak’s clue.

The next most likely would be the XP-72, which was datamined a while ago IIRC. The issue with it being the event vehicle is that it lacks the starpower and the uniqueness to get people grinding it.

Was it one guy, or has it been consistent behavior? Like, I’ve never seen anyone say no to a vehicle because of a subtree vehicle filling the same spot.

If you are talking about the fire and forget version the kh38mt it has the same lock range as the maverick, if you wanted to say the laser version, now you have the brimstone that is the equivalent but with 9 of them instead of 4 that the su25sm3 can carry, more complaints?

More dev blog tomorrow or do they not work on Fridays?

Consistant from a fair few. I quite routinely get told things like that.

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Im wondering dev stream tomorrow maybe?

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Doesn’t the dev stream and sever always open on the day after the teaser?

That is true, and I can understand why Sweden and Italy ended up with Soviet vehicles through Finland and Hungary, even if I am unhappy about it. But Britain and South Africa have historically been western nations.
India has a mixed history and enough vehicles to fill its own tech tree.

If India hadn’t been added to Britain I would have been like “eh, whatever” when seeing the Superhind, but this is further cementing the fears of britain ending up with indian-operatred Sukhois, MiGs and unmodified soviet tanks/helis, while the actual british vehicles are left to rot in their sub-optimal to even broken states.

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Zero chance the Super Hind sits at 9.0. It’s going 10.7 minimum. 10.3 if the IRCM is garbage (could be).

Just miss out the small detail of the SAM systems each 1 is most likely to face while doing that ofc xD

its something like btr80

I meant that instead of adding SuperHind, we were once added 2 useless 9.0 helicopters. My English is bad, I often use a translator.

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Leak lists aren’t always complete, some updates there’s been surprise additions that snuck under the radar so to speak

It would be bizarre, no… unprecedented if Italy/Sweden got literally nothing

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KH-38

  1. it needs line of sight to the target for each target
  2. manually queued for each target
  3. clear day as clouds block the seeker
  4. hope no one deploys smoke during flight

Brimstone ARH

  1. does not need line of sight
  2. doesn’t need to manually queue
  3. is all weather
  4. doesn’t care about smoke

My point isn’t that KH-38 isn’t good, it is very good. Its that Brimstone in its final form is comically overpowered, its comically overpowered in real life too.

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Maybe. I want to know how they evaluate F117, like an assault aircraft, stealth sure but throwing it any where above 12.0 is kind of brutal, but otherwise what IR missile, 9L? GRB as well, what it’s just every SPAA but Tor stare at the sky can’t find it?

First the Wessex, which doesn’t really add anything at 9.0 and now the Superhind, which based on how good the Lynx and the Rooikat are, isn’t going to add anything either.

Man, am I glad that I already researched the Teapache

It is rumored that it was technically capable of carrying “any weapon in inventory that physically fit in the weapons bay”, and there were some plans to integrate AIM-9L to hunt soviet AWACS, but this never came to pass.

So IRL the F-117 never carried Air to Air weapons.

It could… supposedly… but never did

Normally what percentage of the update is in the teaser? I know the big stuff are, but are there more top tier vehicles?

I’m fine with the Brimstone being nerfed, I wouldn’t want it ingame with real life specs.
What I have a problem with is that the KH-38 is still going to be very problematic due to how bad most nations SPAA/SAMs is/are

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