Kinda like how a late Marine 18Cs have AESA radar?
Well, I don’t know about the F-18 but for example a Block 53 Phantom would differ from the F-4E block 48 in it’s radar ( hugely upgraded software and operation wise) and would have MASSIVELY better available weaponry ( AIM-9L/M and Pave Tack on block 53 vs 9J/P3/P4 with Pave Spike on block 48).
Another example would be let’s say A-4E early. In it’s specific block number or year it was only limited to AIM-9Bs ( which we’re still missing on two pylons) vs a later year with up to four AIM-9Ds and AGM-65s on wing pylons.
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Well the F/A-18C Early is from 1989-1991 so shouldn’t it receive AIM-9M?
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Would be useless against air targets, except helicopters maybe.
I don’t understand what you mean?
Mid war the USMC upgraded their 18Cs with AESA radars. Either way Gaijin’s naming scheme is showing issues. It is too ambiguous for Gaijin to be association dates with and just leaves the community confused.
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What I mean is they should at the very least specify the year or block and adjust weaponry accordingly.
Calling things “early” or “late” is a purely artificial thing to only fill out the most necessary weapons kits and call it a day. All that while the retroactive additions to make things historical are dumpstered and never looked back at.
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Which war?
AN/APG-79v4 started to be installed in like 2023
To add on to this, what they call “QoL updates” is nothing but a facade, every older vehicle gets continuously powercrept and giving those vehicles some love never hurts.
Like, sure they’re adding new weapons to Stukas for example ( which is great) but doing that in one fell swoop every now and then would really work wonders for the game.
That is just repeating what you said before, it isn’t an answer to my initial comment on it likely not being a naming for upgrades/ordinance/year/etc and instead an indication of when you are able to unlock them in you progression while playing.
Upgrades began 2020. I guess it falls technically late are if we are being specific but it was middle of an ongoing conflict.
Still, even that doesn’t make sense as for most of the time there isn’t a “late” counterpart to an “early” variant.
Keep in mind it isn’t all about progression either, if you want variation things get really iffy in the long run
“Early”/“Late” is a generalisation that enables Gaijin to pick and choose outfit for balance purposes.
there is? i don’t think it necessarily is always called “late” but is instead just a normal tech tree one or similar. The naming of Early/Late is inconsistent and that is perhaps an issue in of itself but my comment still stands about it not necessarily corresponding to when that model/upgrade/ordinance was introduced.
And it’s a really loose definition.
We can argue the A-7E is in its early variant but considering it’s got an RWR from late service it all just winds down to the fact that they can lazily pick and choose whatever the hell they want it to have just to not bother with weapons variations. ( Balancing is of secondary importance here given that planes for example have two different BR systems lol)
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Well, if its not too OP why it can’t be added?
It’s a terrible naming scheme which only accomplishes wasted time with the creation and research of bug reports. If they would attach a year or block number to said aircraft it would be far more efficient. Hell they don’t even have to be specific with the date they could do 81-91.
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Not currently planned in this update.
ARH mode for Brimstone is not planned in any capacity currently.
A missile being in an aircrafts inventory is not an automatic inclusion. It’s always been subject to balance considerations too.
Absolutely. And all that makes the whole thing about bug reporting extremely toxic as an immediate consequence.
“Passed as suggestion” and “will not be implemented, not INTENDED” my smelly rear lol
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Any?
I thought it was only about ARH to ground