Major Update “Tusk Force” - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 3)

I’d be down with 15.0 for the AESA EFT and Rafale (and Gripen E I guess whenever they add it) with current IR missiles so that some of fhe other AESA planes can be added without instantly being DOA on their own BR.

With these planes at 15.0 planes like the J-10C, AESA F-15C/F-16/F/A-18E etc could still be added at 14.3-14.7.

Adding the new IR missiles would bump all of these BRs up 0.3-0.7 of course.

september 21, update is not here yet?

Because it’s currently the weekend and we had a dev server late last week?

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i remember simulator mode had D point when i used my me-262

So there is a small chance to see the M1A2T?

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Hopefully it arrives at the same time as the Thai VT-4 for the Thai line inside the Japanese tree or both not at all.

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Hopefully they dump a massive update for China and Taiwan; their tech tree felt empty when there are more things to be added.

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I’m not against China getting the M1A2T.

It was mostly a jab against a large part of the Chinese community. They are against their export tank going to other tree but will gladly take export vehicles from other nations into their own.

Thailand should get the VT-4 into its line in the Japanese tree and Taiwan should get the M1A2T in its line in the Chinese tree.

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they want the special variant of export only pretty much. The Taiwanese M1A2T is basically an Sep V2.5. It also has an more special armor different from the original one and redesigned for tropical enviorment. Also looking foward to the F-CK 1 and bunch of Cloud Leopard the autocannon variant, and the 105mm variant.

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I really dislike this whole “you got something new last patch” attitude when it comes to new additions.

Sure yeah, speaking for AA now, China got denied a new system because “they just got one”. When it’s a system that should probably have been added alongside Pantsir.

Or when China got denied an air addition in December patch because they “just got Mirage 2000”. Like, lol?

A content dump patch for PRC/ROC TT is in fact necessary. I’ll put it bluntly, China is China. It should not be held to the same standard, say, Israel, Japan and Sweden is held to.

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More like SEPv1.5 no? From what I saw people post it’s an M1A1 hull with a SEPv2 turret? (Not that it matter much as SEPv1 and SEPv2 are identical in game besides the forced TUSK II).

It doesn’t have the improved armor package of the SEPv3 as far as we can see, so it’ll likely be identical to the SEPv1 in game.

For gameplay perspective, this is true. Plus the RCWS I guess, not like that matters beyond being a shot trap.

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As much as I hate how this sounds, I get what you mean.

Mainly with top tier air and SAM I noticed just how much there is to add for China and just how little we actually see added. It’s as if Gaijin just don’t know about any of those.

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Wholeheartedly agree, it’s obscenely hypocritical to bite and kick gaijin over the Thai VT-4, and then subtley accept the M1A2T, like the double standards there are downright colossal , and all credibility from that side of the community just vanishes after all the fuss they make about export tanks xD

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Yes, the amount of additions China is getting being comparable to Sweden or Israel especially just feels wrong. Israel got about the last (non backwards) in-service fighter they could get before F-35I. So what’s the hold up with say, J-10B? I do play Sweden and Japan too by the way, but this similar way they handle Chinese additions (probably a bunching up of ‘minor’ nations in their checklist, when circumstances are not at all similar) infuriates me as I am really fond of Chinese equipment.

They could’ve done HQ-11 or HQ-16 this patch or the last patch. Not like China’s secretive about them, they all have foreign trade variants. They also shafted Japan over in the SAM* side so I am not going to be that loud about it x) but yes I am upset. Especially about the J-10B that’s been “missing” since December.

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What gaijin is likely doing is prepping china to be the next major nation so to speak, once a lot of the minor nations run out of tangible content, China will become massive very quickly.

More and more people are investing into researching china and that’ll manifest into a huge rank 7/8 in the near future, especially when stealth is added, since China is the only nation in the world with a comparable air force to the USA currently

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I want my F-CK-1 now and not the same patch J-20 gets added 😭😭😭😭

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It really seems like they don’t know how to go from WWII / Cold War China to the superpower they became in the past ~30 years. The main thing I hope to see from them answering to feedback later this month is that I hope they finally change that.

Especially for air it just seems wasted to have arguably the main modern day rival of the US not be represented.

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Ideally yeah, I want the F-16V, J-10B/TVC/C and J-16s to come ASAP because the J-10A is cool and all, but the others are a far better fit to top tier right now, and lord only knows what’ll happen when they add the good chinese/taiwanese fox-3s

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