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

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Well… aren’t 12-15km ranges a quite standard average for ingame engagement ranges anyway?

I find launches past 19 km to be extremely unreliable, because it’s just too easy to evade them when they take 40 seconds to reach a target; 40 seconds you have to maneuver and defend against the missile.

I guess I still don’t quite entirely get how Top Tier air is suppossed to work. Apparently, people are somehow getting 30 km kills and find an un-dodgeable missile with a 12 km range to be an issue because it can’t make such 30 km range launches.

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1160

Lmaoo

I tried to upload a normal gif, but it was 40 MB :(

So I kept compressing until at some point, for some reason, compressing more led to it becoming heavier… so I had to reduce frames :(

1161

USA mains not getting THE plane that lead the new meta every update :

They got 3 planes, a second rank 8 premium after 4 for rank 7 when some country only have one premium for both ranks, and they whine~

1162

I mean when your range is hard limited you are always at the mercy of the enemy plane with better range.

1163

Again, I don’t see this a pro. It is a con due to the insane amount of premium vehicle spam which will inevitably fill your teams with beginners and farmers

1164

I wish possibility for brimstone to ARH at least air targets
For…
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1165

Overall yes but my experience with amraam 15km+ kill is very common mica can’t do this I don’t know about rafale that they can shoot further? I don’t have it yet but my14.5km with mica i only done it once

1166

@Smin1080p_WT can you say if we can exspect this patch Raytracing for AMD and Consoles?

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1167

muh russian catering

1168

Maybe some optimisation for Ray Tracing in general, so that my PC doesn’t go from 185 FPS to 40-60 when I enable it xD

I mean, I understand it being resource-heavy and leading to a performance drop, but… is such an enormous drop normal?

1169

I mean, there are several reason it should get 9Ms

They’re more historically accurate
it differentiates it from the F/A-18A
if it’s at 13.0 already it needs them
again if 13.0 it will be the only, I repeat only aircraft at that BR that doesn’t have either IRCCM or ARH missiles
It would likely make it more playable too

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1171

it should get 9M because non-IRCCM missiles are negligible

1172

Primary downside of R77, significant air drag isn’t fixed with R77-1 either unless Gaijin addresses that with update.

1173

What Air to Air does the F/A-18C (Early) get?

1174

Those map remakes are the best part about the update until now for me.
especially the Jungle map looks gorgeous and i cant wait to drive my Ha-Gos and Chi-Has there.

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So far as we know AIM-9L and AIM-7P

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From Store Page

It features an AN/APG-65 radar with advanced tracking and engagement capabilities, along with a large number of AIM-9L and AIM-7P air-to-air missiles and a 20 mm Vulcan cannon.

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@Smin1080p_WT
Hey!

Would it be possible to know if the F/A-18C for Sweden is the base version (1995-2006) or the MLU 1 (2006-2012) version with Helmet sight and updated IFF (AIM-9X and AIM-120C not in game yet but it did receive those during that upgrade as well).

Also, is it planned for Sweden to get a F/A-18C MLU 2 (2012-forward) with the ground ordinance and Litening pod or will those upgrades be considered suggestions for this version coming now?

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1178

it can carry 7P from 1987+ but why not 9M from 1982

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