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

Monday

Next week

Doesnt it always start on friday? Where does it say its monday?

Mod came and announced it here in this chat

We’ve been told by @magazine2

Just because something usually happens on a certain day doesn’t mean it will always have to happen on a certain day

That does mean we’ll either have an astronomically short dev server, or the update will go live only in the second half of March

Wow so the new F16 is just copy paste DOA? Aim 120D, no gbu-53s, 120CM, worse engine, mid radar. Is the cockpit even different?

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Not that we know, no

Edit: it gets an ASEA radar, but that’s all I know is different about it

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The update going live in the second half of March was always a possibility.

We don’t know its final BR or the final performance of the AIM-120D, but if you wanna call it DOA already, who am I to stop you lol

I don’t mind that really. Means the gap to the next dovbleg season will be smaller

Lotsa folks having been screaming DoA already lol

It’s going to be a menace in GRB

Gonna be honest them holding the dev until Monday makes me feel everything is very much WIP and wasn’t fully ready to be unveiled. I can just hope they don’t rush some vehicles and then leave them broken for years on end.

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DOA is a bit of a stretch. As far as i know the AIN-120D should be a lot better at not losing the tracking (if the planes radar still sees the target) and better energy retention. AESA radar is also a lot better than a mechanical one, especially for TWS usage as it updates the tracking more often for more accurate missile flight paths.

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Six missiles ain’t gonna save it, if they went with public info the radar is probably one of the worst ESA radars in-game. It actually has worse HOBS performance than the AN/APG-68 and only slightly better range.

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Muh six missiles

At least wait until we know how the AIM-120Ds perform

They could be amazing for BVR and you don’t need a ton of missiles to do BVR

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Oh yeah I kinda forgot, this is gaijin we’re dealing with isn’t it…

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