Major Update "Firebirds" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 3)

All Harriers still have an extremely sooty exhaust and the SHars all still have placeholder HUDs. If the HUDs cant be fixed soon, should replace them with the F3s HUD. At least give us the symbology we are meant to have

and thats not even mentioning issues like the Heat Sigs or BOL

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Sooty exhaust, incredibly easy to lock even from the vertical, dodgy hud, missing ordnance at least on gr7, can’t flare most threats without 90% of your flares, dodgy chaff, placeholder maws…

Placeholder MAWS for the Gr7 too

Well. I hope at least that one means something then.
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Honestly I feel like if I keep updating this list, I’ll be here until New Years.

yeah

This took way longer to write than it should have

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And this is just one harrier, yea?

Well… Focusing on the 3 SHars with a few overlap issues with others, but essentially yes.

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Yeah if it took an age to cover a series with overlap, I’m going to give up updating that list. I want to get sleep this eve.

Yep, but have no fear. The Sea Harriers have an updated RWR panel in the cockpit, just need VR for it to be usable normally, but it has it.

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Yeah, VR’s still buggered on Linux. Don’t know why, we know how to get it working, we just get hit by anticheat if we do.

@Smin1080p_WT a lighter question, have the devs considered bumping the 9.7 first gen harriers down 0.3 in GRB to 9.3? I do really like the Harriers, but neither the US or the UK trees have a TT ground vehicle at 9.7 (Only the Rooikat 105 for the UK, and the XM8 for the US, both of which are unavailable for console, and not much easier to get on PC), and the incoming AV-8S only has the Type-16 to pair with.

Would also have the side effect of insulating against the 10.7 black hole of premiums and decompressed MBTs which can be a bit of a pain in a 9.3 tank. One might discribe it as not fun.

Also weaponry wise it’s all dumb, unlike similar subsonic platforms at 9.3 (Bucc S.2, A-4E etc)

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That would be a good change. Even just the GR1 with no CMs would be huge

“Statistics dictate that the Gr1 needs to remain at 9.7”

I would not be surprised if the AV-8A and AV-8C moved to 9.3 but the GR1/GR3 remained

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I would be willing to bet on it lol

Legacy Hornet is in no way comparable to Su-30. Maybe if you dropped Super Hornets but even that would be transonic at best. F/A-18C and MiG-29K is a much better and fair comparison

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29K after Sea Harrier FA.2 take it or leave it

I vote leave it and add a Sea Harrier FA2 late instead with ASRAAMs

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Seconding this. I like the Mig 29, but we don’t need them in every tree.