Major Update "Hornet Sting" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 4)

nope

The R-77-1 won’t be much of an upgrade outside of increased range. There is no reason for NATO nations to get AIM-120C-5 just because the USSR suddenly has a bit more range.

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It will be AIM-120B equivalent in the best case scenario.

Likely it will end up in between MICA and PL-12 range, likely on the higher end. AIM-120C-5 is not needed.

The R-77-1 should be the standard counterpart to the AIM-120A/B really

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Would be useful if we could see nation popularity and winrates as then the community could push for things in a better way

French Coastal might just be saved with the coming update:

From Olivia’s leaks:

🇫🇷 Flower Class Aconit - 2.3/2.3/2.3 - after fr_mtb96_vosper
🇫🇷 Marne Class Marne - 3.0/3.0/3.0 - after LCG (M) L9059
🇫🇷 VTB-12 mod - 1.0/1.0/1.0 - new start of tree
🇫🇷 VTB-18 - 1.0/1.0/1.0 - after VTB-12mod

and

The Following ships have been removed from the trees unless you already own them
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🇫🇷 VTB-8, VTB-11, VTB-14

Depending if the 2 new rank I boats will get better armament than the VTB-8, 11 and 14, this might actually prove to be a great update for anyone starting with French coastal ships. The addition of the 2.3 Flower Class and the 3.0 Marne class is also very nice to see, as France really lacks decent line-ups at the lower BR’s of Coastal.

The absolute removal of these reserve ships is saddening, so maybe we could see them as separate vehicles from the tech tree instead?

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It’s tough because players no longer play a singular nation they play the flavour of the week. Which is the Rafale right now.

But next update it will be the Su-30

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Come on Gaijin, stop hiding vehicles

I mean there isn’t much left to add in terms of mbt’s outside of tech demonstrators and maybe an Abrams variant or two, but I completely get it. Not getting content for your prefered game mode for years sucks.

They could ‘free’ them and make them optional. Like some French and Japanese tanks in rank I.

Edit: seems like they will do exactly that!

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If it was never gonna come it can’t be delayed…

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Gaijin made it so easy to reach top tier, and stripped so much national identity from tech trees, that you’re right, people just seem to play whats meta and they can grind with a top tier premium in a week or 2

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Exactly. There is no need to make them unobtainable, just put them aside and researchable or folder them behind the replacements

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Within hours of the patch you will see teams of Su-30

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Sorry found out this was against TOS later and didn’t dealer this one.

beyond new additions causing an influx of META chasers a lot of people main a certain nation at specific BRs or overall, I play britain only but I play with people that only really use USSR or USA at specific BRs too. If we could see where the high and low points are we could suggest ways to help even out player distributions either via balancing or additions. We all know that gaijin devs themselves arent massive players of the actual game in comparison to forum frequenters so it would be a great way to get better community input into the games direction.

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My god we are now in WOW paying people to level our character…

This game

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just woke up and uh wow that sure is a trailer lol (called it would be dominated by the F18 and Su30)

maybe another time, currently doing Israeli ground and then taking a break