My first hypothesis: well soon see Rank IX in Ground Battles.
Which makes sense, considering how long we’ve gone without enough new content in Ground. Rank VIII didnt bring a large number of new vehicles at the top tier. What actually happened is that they decompressed and moved some vehicles from Rank VI to VII, and others from VII to VIII. Also, Rank VIII has very little variety and needs attention. A new rank is always a good moment to add more premium vehicles.
My second hypothesis: well soon see a massive rework of Ground BRs.
I think the lack of variety in the top ranks makes a BR rebalance necessary. They’ll add new vehicle types, especially with the new mechanics we’ve seen lately. They’ll also add more light vehicles and tank destroyers, since Rank VIII barely has any, or in some cases, none at all.
The new SPAA systems raise an issue: their BR. These SPAAs should go up to 13.0 or 14.0 like top-tier jets. Right now, someone in a premium Netz (BR 12.0) could face someone using an Ito90 or someone with an IRIS-T system, even though those two differ enormously in efficiency. SPAAs should have a BR that matches the aircraft they’re facing (from BR 12 to 14).
The third hypothesis is a mix of the two above:
Rank IX for air and ground, balancing aircraft and SPAA BRs, fleshing out Rank VIII with the types of vehicles its currently missing (LTs, TDs, more SPAA, etc.). Add one or two modern MBTs to Rank IX for each nation and sell Leopard 2A6 premiums at Rank VIII (just like Rank VIII jets such as the F-16 are already being sold).
Naval has massively accelerated its BR progression. I suppose the goal is to bring all three branches to Rank X. In Ranks VIII, IX, and X of Naval well see Cold War and modern era ships.
One more thought: we know submarines are coming soon. My final wish is to also see aircraft carriers, that way we’d finally have 5 full tech tree lines in Naval.
I just hope Gaijin doesnt turn submarines or carriers into a “premium only tech tree” like they did with helicopters. We all know grinding helicopters is a lie. If you want one, you either buy the premium or buy a talisman and all the modules with GE.
Yeah, so a typhoon can do well against a F-15 in WVR but can deal with Flanker and Rafale in longer range. F-15 can only really do BVR against 14.0’s, so just like Tornado F3 Late, it makes sense to have better BVR missiles than most others at the BR
honestly with high range SPAA being inevitable, its pretty much going to mean that spawning aircraft will pretty much be impossible unless ground maps overall were made much larger for both aircraft and tanks
Oh, bvvd already said the surface launched SLM can only reach 40km when launched from a plane :)
I bet they’ll spot similar marketing lies for the other SAMs and let CAS continue ruining GRB.
You underestimate how much damage a 750kg warhead traveling at mach 1.6+ would do.
It may not outright sink it sure. But the Iowa isn’t going to be in a good state afterwards. No ship is for that matter considering this is a thing that was designed to kill carriers.
STR, ITR, Max speed, supercruise speed, rip speed, G-tolerance are all underperforming by quite a bit
Great if you are in ARB and have a marker telling you exactly where the enemy is, useless in ASB when trying to find the Rafale or Su-30SM that has insta found you on their radar and is about to send a swarm of ARH at you.
Im sorry, anyone who describes the F-15 as “a boat” needs to go spend a year playing the Tornado F3
Possibly but, as other’s have mentioned, it’s actually pretty accurate for a first attempt. It’s beating everything it should and losing to everything it should (i.e. winning in slow speed horizontal turn fights, losing when in vertical fights)
It’s staying true to the name, like the low tier zero, as long as people don’t get baited into dogfighting with it in unfavorable scenarios, they can dictate the fight while the F-2 can only react
It’s pretty much what I was hoping for, a better F-16AJ (though admitedly this exceeded my expectations because it can still compete with Rafale and EFT in rating).
My personal experience in my AJ is that I rarely lose to EFT/Rafales because I rarely run into that smart pilot that knows to take advantage of their thrust, but also since I play mostly ground RB, they can’t do that either without getting into SPAA height. So having something that’s better than the AJ is just perfect
For air RB, the F-15J(M) is just better, but there is a fun rat gameplay to be had with the F-2 that I will enjoy.
For ground RB, the F-2 will truly shine as a dogfighter and mayhaps have some useful CAS (maybe ASM-2s as well), but I think currently, Thai Gripen might be better there anyway
Which is basically what it is rn lol
Not only structural but also electronically, which is also something that people miss when they just compare the two visually
Given that it can go toe to toe with current top tier, I think it can be BR 20 and still be fine right now lol. When 5th gen comes though, things will be interesting…
I think the F-2A’s drag is slightly too low while maneuvering right now (not by much) but the basic characteristics is there, might be some slight tweaks here and there before the live server drops but so far it’s looking good.
I heard the engine is weaker than it should be but I haven’t really looked into it. I’m just waiting for changes this upcoming week. Though I’m hopeful since it’s not obscenely broken like launch Gripen or anything like that