Ah yes, the horizontal turns at the end sure do look legit.
100% the user model from WT.Live, just recorded… and in VHS quality.
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This way the current Type 81 (C) can also stay at a lower BR (and hopefully move down again too), while the version with full radar search and datalink is at a higher BR.
Then they should have added the Type 11 instead.
Pretty sure that’s the user mission from a while back, which iirc is just F-16C with bigger wing area in terms of FM (but I might remember wrong).
Anyways while this means it’s missing drag, it also doesn’t account for the larger LERX, extended tail, enlarged elevators, difference in wing shape and bigger trailing and leading edge flaps, so we’ll just have to wait and see what an actual F-2 performs like.
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User model, you can tell cause the elevons and leading edge doesn’t move. The AAM-4s lack MRM adapters aside from the pylons the user model has them on by default, and the paint scheme is wrong.
That being said, it does have a different radar to the user model usually, someone must’ve actually spent some time messing around with it. I considered making a new radar to mess around with on it for some testing myself, but decided not to with it’s actual release so soon.
Just checked user mission from WT.Live. Model in video has different missile and fuel loadout, but also missing gear and has sniper for some reason. In video over G is also turned off. It’s a fake. Should have done it before posting here
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It has the sniper cause its a model rip from Ace combat which has it.
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It could be the same user mission but tweaked with a different loadout, and probably on arcade settings.
On the bright side, we only have to wait a week to find out ourselves before the bug reporting begins
This is a little promising.
the F-2 uses the sniper tgp tho
it uses the AN/AAQ-28 Litening and sniper
as shown on this msg
F-2 doesn’t use Lightening. Only Sniper and J/AAQ-2
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My mistake thank you for the correction!
Yeah, I doubt it will perform badly. Especially when considering the WT “Maneuver Mode” that it would probably get, the fact that the airframe is very durable since it’s meant to perform high G loading even with payload and that there’s still a (very slight) possibility they model DY and ME modes.
It wouldn’t really be meta since it’s still rather slow, but it would find its niche.
But at the same time I did try the user mission as well again and that video is a modified flight model (might also just be set to arcade). That doesn’t mean the F-2 isn’t already very agile in the user mission, but it doesn’t defy physics the way it did in the deep fried fake leak video.
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My guess for its play style is staying between medium to low altitude since your lower speed (tho probably not as low as a hornet) means you wouldn’t want to contest high speed bvr fighters.
Staying near allied groups and just picking off others doing more of a rat playstyle and support.
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Ace combat moment
If it handles better than the other F-16s I’ll already be quite happy. I don’t like playing unmaneuverable planes anymore after going through japan.
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I wonder, how do we think the J/AAQ-2 will come to game? It’s FLIR functionality is kinda between the TGPs and IRSTs we have in game. It’s capable of tracking both air and ground targets, but lacks a laser designator and potentially some other TGP functions. However if it came as a FLIR it wouldn’t be simultaneously usable with the J/APG-2, which it should be (an issue multiple IRSTs in game already have, but especially prominent on the F-2 given how the AAM-4 should work.)
In game internally IRSTs are technically a part of the radar, just in a different range band, while TGPs are separate modules which work independently of them.
- Will come as an IRST
- Will come as a TGP
- Will not come
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It looks like I overestimated hype “potential” of F-2. At least as Gaijin see it. If leaks are true, Gaijin decided to not only add F-2 in a ship update with Yamato and Bismarck (much-much more famous vehicles in in the public consciousness), but it also “pairs” with German hornet, so we probably won’t see a lot of shots with F-2 in a trailer. It’s basically a side update for air. According to leaks, there is no premium or early versions of F-2 as well. Still good it comes
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