True, but I haven’t flown a Phantom in a while especially the F-4F so its sounds like fun to mess around with again & play against fighters I would never expect to face off against.
It’s going to be a pretty funny unique kind of suffering we get to do imo.
If it gets AIM-9Li’s, I can see it being a decent support fighter, similar to how you’d play the Tornado F.3, taking longer range shots with the radar missiles and using the IR missiles for self defence and unsuspecting enemies.
Not the only aircraft. I can see a lot of people having a long few weeks stock grinding a few different aircraft this update. The most painful is probably gunna be the F3 with no A2G at all. At least things like the SHAR and ICE can always dump some bombs onto ground targets.
Unless they get fixed/changed. AMRAAM + Radar off-boresighting is proving to be quite deadly at close range. I’ve gotten more than a few kills against “better” aircraft doing that in both F3 and FA2
Assuming that doesnt get fixed. Yes… Though you do also get AMRAAM a rank before everyone else. But F3 and FA2 and a few others are basically reliant upon BVRs. Good proposal in at the moment for the F3 to get Skyflash DFs stock
lower BR. (will depend on what or even if they do anything with SB brackets) but could result in some downtiering (or it may be perma-locked to uptiers)
Its technically the “new” aircraft. Its more unique than the F3 which i’ve semi-played quite a bit this past year
It has A2G weapons. In SB thats gunna make it a LOT easier to stock grind and also easier to generate RP to put into the F3 Late
Its the aircraft i’ve been looking forward to more out of the 2. F3 Late is nice. But FA2 just has the style points
Though i really really really hope they replaced the Harrier Gr3 cockpit HUD.
But also if the Tornado Gr1 gets any TLC (which is unlikely now, but still hoping) then Im gunna be in it as well quite a bit. Maybe even skip 1 or 2 of the aircraft have nearly spaded in favour of just playing the Gr1 (which i talismanned in the sale) instead