Major Update "Leviathans" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 3)

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7322

I don’t think so. They bothered to implement stealth on the F-117 and it isn’t that effective.

There will be stealth, but it won’t be as good as everyone expects it to be.

Plus, if this is actually coming in December, we’ve got 2 major updates for them to lay the groundworks with various mechanics ETC.

We saw that Eurofighter and Rafale were added and then various capabilites like automatic countermeasure deployment and NCTR were added later.

Lots of time for them to either pre-buff or post-buff these 5th gens.

But I do not seriously expect it to happen in December of this year, but I believe it guarunteed to be by December 2026.

7323

Good point, War Thunder’s low engagement range and low altitude meta is fundamentally different from real war, and it’s not talked about enough I think.

IMO this is due to in-game economy and the constraints of an area/time restricted battle-space

7324

Yeah, exactly. Heck, they wont even model BOL to IRL performance. I seriously doubt we’ll see stealth modeled

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7325

like the F-15?

7326

Comanche and F-117?

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7327

Ok, but you’re using BOL not being modelled as realistically as you like, to argue they won’t bother modelling it at all. They clearly will, but clearly it won’t be as strong as people expect.

7328

That’s what I mean. It just won’t matter. It’s like a token thing. “Oh hey, here is 0.5km reduced radar detection”

stelth

7329

Yes, which is one of the stronger planes at its BR brackets. F-15EX would be lethal with tons of AIM-120.

7330

I mean it’s in their interest to stretch out vehicle additions, so we could see something like an F-22 early and late.

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7331

Commanche means bugger all because helis are already radar stealth as no PD is modeled from the rotor blades

And does the F-117 stealth even really work? Its also not a top tier fighter.

7332

they could even thow in a midlife version

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7333

still, theyve done it before and the raptor carries less amraams

7334

Well there’s no Rafale or Eurofighter early.

Hornet early and late added at once.

We will see if there are late Rafale and Eurofighter variants added, then I’d say yes.

7335

In and around BR 10.0, yeah mostly.

SPAA at that BR have crappy radars, though you’re still vulnerable to IRST like Ozelot.

In 12.0, yeah no chance. Pantsir can see you like Eye of Sauron XD

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7336

Well. They reduced the effectiveness of BOL by more than 75%. So if they do the same for Stealth, then it will hardly be wort

7337

Yes, but you’re missing that those planes were basically the strongest around when they got added.

7338

as the USAF intended. F-22 also doesnt have HMD until latest version

7339

As I dont really face the US in ASB at the moment. I’ve yet to try it, but I cant imagine that something like the Sea Vixen radar would be anymore affected by it than just flying low would and using ground clutter.

Seems stupidly niche ability to me and Id rather just fly ultra low in something like the Buc S1 to be immune to radar than to use stealth to hide as you can still be easily spotted with the old mk2 eyeball

So assuming that F-22 stealth wasnt all that much better in game. its hardly worth even mentioning its got it

7340

Sure, but that wasn’t some intentional nerf, just them being strange about things as per usual.

7341

No. BOL was 100% a fake nerf designed to nerf the Gripen.

The fact the bug reports have been ignored and so far no word from the “un-nerf BOL thread” its pretty clear it being nerfed to the point of uselessness isnt a mistake

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