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

Honestly even with how much better this would be I cannot see Gaijin doing this. Personally I see them lowering rewards for bombing to discourage everyone from trying to bomb whilst keeping the kill rewards the same.

B-29 is still fun to play as by the time you hit the base your about 4-5km up making it so a lot of the german fighters pretty sluggish and easy kills for the 50cals

The 18C Late now has 120 counters that are single deploy

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single drop countermeasures for F-16s too when

These artworks are part of the diorama for the new oil refinery bombing targets:

They turn the basic flat texture into a 3D one:

All F/A-18s have single deploy CMs now which is a nice change, the C Early looks like it’s going to stay at 60 though

Is the CDK/Asset Viewer now going to need updating when Hornet Sting comes out?
Opening with Dev 2.44.0.25 seems to results in Exception Occured crash, but worked yesterday with 2.44.0.23

Still small caliber?

Yeah, thought about that too

Does the premium F18 have HMS?

It’s a more important change for the earlier two I think, single pop flares and chaff are useful at 12.7, not so much at 14.0

It doesn’t, though no modern US jet should really, JHMCS was developed to better utilize the AIM-9X, the US didn’t really use HMS before that much.

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thoughts guys?

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It’s too bad that they refuse to artificially nerf USSR things

Infinite health bombing target also made teamkilling less prevelant and reduces toxicity in extension, there would also be more loadouts that takes more fuel and A2A weapons since they do not need to rush for a target, and in turn increases the activity in air engagements

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tbf this isnt even artificial. Its all real weapons they can use immediately with minimal remodelling needed lol

Yeah, it would certainly be worth a trial

I mean, they could just apply the same treatment they gave to the Brimstones to the Kh-38 and get rid of the MT variant. Would be a starting point at least, but hey, we are just plebians that don’t know anything about game balancing.

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Hmmm, missed the moment then Kh-38 can be locked with radar and fired while a single jet can carry almost a dozen of them

Yeah but then people would make way too much from base bombing, and that hurts… well y’know.
Or even worse they’d nerf it to the ground, from what i remember from farming in the tornado 2 bases was 1.5 kills?

You really gonna defend the Kh-38, huh?

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