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

I’ve had the gepard smite me without a ping. But yes, Sidam is worse.

Phimat was only recently added to the Jaguars, the aircraft that it was originally and most frequently requested on.

Indeed at the current moment in time when it was asked, we are slap bang in the centre of a heavy major update period and just come through a dev server. So naturally the focus for the devs is on the many current and existing tasks at hand.

The Tornado F.3 is not without its primary countermeasures. Phimat was an additional suggested option for it.

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maybe “fine” is the wrong term, Both suck.

and I never said it was, it just leave a bad taste in peoples mouths when we are getting foreign options before domestic ones

The countermeasures that don’t work remotely accurately? That bug reports are ignored for?

Sneak peek preview of the Mirage 2000-5Ei camo
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Well well well, sure is lively here.

The foreign option operated by Britain before the more advanced domestic option came later?

It was entirely logical for the M109 to come before later platforms.

When is it not and when is it not the same old few :)

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BOL are ahistroically modeled to have 1/4 their IRL performance (maybe even more than that for “flares”), instead of having 320 BOL CMs the F3 (and FA2) essentially has more like 60-80 due to the amount you need to drop compared to everyone else. This eliminates a major advantage that the F3 would ordinarily have over its contempories in exchange for their other limitations. Bug reports for Both flares and chaff for BOL were submitted a year ago

Whilst Britain isnt alone in being affected by poor BOL performance, the Viggen D, Gripen A/C and F-14B are also affected. Nearly all of Britains rank 8 aircraft are affected by this nerf. Heck, the only one without, the Tornado Gr1, is technically missing BOL.

Id be fine with all their current BR placements with fixed BOL, but in its current state, the F3 Late, FA2 and Gr7 are all potentially 0.3-0.7 BR too high and the GR1 might be appropraiately placed at 11.7 if it recieved them. GR4 if it doesnt get them, is probably going to be desperate for more CMs, especially in GRB

Tornado F3 could even move up to 12.3 if it gets BOL fixes and Phimat, its BR is almost entirely capped at 12.0 purely because of its CM situation imo.

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Not to mention they’ve also killed the FM (inaccurately) of the plane they nerfed BOL to deal with. So keeping BOL shafted is pretty rubbish.

There are times where R&R goes silent for a few hours. But they are quite rare.

I’ve actually been good in this one for once : P

Mainly due to being ill for 3 weeks lol

then why did Sweden get things like the VIDAR before an M109A1? like I dont get that reasoning when we have had more advanced things added before the less advanced vics and if that was really the care then we should have gotten Abbot as it was in service before the M109A1 by almost 10 years, not to mention we got the G6 before the M109A1 and that came after the M109A1 by over 10 years

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The camo was already available to see on the dev server

Probably because Sweden didn’t operate M109 and has its own platforms and SPGs across the tree already?

VIDAR was a premium to add a unique SPG to the Swedish tree.

Britain received its M109 at the same time as everyone else. If it wasn’t added, another platform would not have come that update instead. Rather there would just have been people asking in that same Rumour Roundup topic “where is the British M109 if everyone else gets theirs?”.

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It was on the dev server for several days tho

@Smin1080p_WT
With the Cr2’s finally getting visual camo net updates will it also be possible to run them without the net in the new update, like in this suggestion:

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Not in this update for sure, but we will forward the idea for the future.

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