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

The pacific war needs another map :,)

May i suggest Manilla City '45, American defenses at bataan, the black sands of Iwo?

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It’s best to avoid statements that could age like milk.
It’s why my posts only talked in possibilities and probabilities.

The F-15E was also pretty meta defining

But the F/A-18E is not likely to come this update, it’ll be June more likely as they always give the US a naval aircraft in June

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leaks say J-11B

Wasn’t F-15E meta defining in between Firebirds and Storm Warning?

It’s not a possibility. If it was coming, it’d have been mentioned in the devblog.

Not necessarily, it is a different airframe, though I agree it isn’t coming this update, it would have featured in the trailer realistically if it were

People saying F-18s are DoA

That too.

Iwo jima could be very unblanced due to the layout, but if its around the airfield it could have a case. I would put forward Kunlun Pass as a part of asia-pacific, with some extreme terrain uncommon in Asian battlefields

The issue is more what they seem to be doing with the BRs, like the F/A-18A is fine but both the F/A-18Cs are overtierd from what we’ve seen about them

I’m sure you can agree, the F/A-18C doesn’t compare to the Rafale

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Thank you Brother

5 minutes left till the dev stream

I mean, obviously, the map wouldn’t be the whole island!

So the map could be balanced. I think people underestimate how big Iwo Jima is.

When I was a kid, I thought it was Battlefield 1943-sized; only a bit later I found out it was actually extremely downscaled there, hahahah.

Problem as old as the world, BR compression.

I’m pretty sure he meant the plane, not the missile

wait dev stream is today? mf i have to go to work when it starts

“HORNET’S STING” UPDATE PREVIEW | War Thunder Official Channel

when i think about Pacific maps i kindly remember the ones from BF V.
These where gorgeous and i wouldnt dislike the Idea if the Jungel map would get a map “extension” into the inland with a more dense Jungle like sand of sinai or el alamein got 2 battelgrounds on the same map.

This could make a nice CQC map for lowtier


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You can watch it later, don’t worry.