I think it will be niche but fun. Has some of the best ACM out there and with the wide setting its almost like psudo-hmd (not really but you get what i mean)
Really good manuverability especially at low speeds and single pop CMs is nice especially if they give it it’s full 120CMs. I think it will be fun maybe not fully meta but fun.
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We have to pray it gets its full 120CMs, considering so many planes at toptier are missing either half or 3/4th of their CMs
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60CM gifted to swiss f-18
Am I the only one who sees that the plane in game is the wrong colour? it’s just too bright. It’s like the dark tone is what the light tone should be.
Here is a picture of the F-2 in game. I took the liberty of picking the blue from a relatively even spot on the wing for easier comparison to the later images.
Here and here are two separate pictures of the exact F-2 as found in the game, in reality. The lighting in both images is different, but it’s clear to see, particularly from the markings on the vertical stabilizer, that the F-2 we have in game is way too washed out.
Also can we address just how filthy the plane is in game? like holy moly, somebody needs to hit it with a sponge.
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There was report for it actually, skin on dev are often incorrect and changed before live anyway so we cn only wait for now.
You’re probably going to have to ping a moderator and link your report if it doesn’t get accepted before the update is planned to go live.
Unfortunately, desaturation is a very common and reoccurring problem for Japanese vehicles, e.g., T-2 Blue Impulse, Late Bicolor on tanks.
Is the ASM2 fixed?
Nope
still no techtree early f2
Idk if it’s just Kormoran thing or ASM-1 would be capable of same things, but since J/APG-2 has actual GMTI mode (unlike radar on Tornado MFG) you can lock moving tanks and missile actually tracks them so you kinda have huge SAP-HE AGMs with weird gimmick. Tho on bright side if you manage to launch them missile should be able to track target even through smoke
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Not this update for sure
that’s the only plane I was really waiting for cause I already knew F2 was power crept, and now it’s behind an $80 paywall -_-
It is by any means not powercrept. As light fighters go it is one of the best. The only real competition it gets are heavy fighters and European heavy interceptors, especially in A-A
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it’s 13.7. Top B.R is 14.0.
feels pretty powercrept to me, considering this was supposed to be japans top fighter coming “along with comparable aircraft of other nations”
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maybe “powercrept” isn’t a very good word for what I’m trying to say but you know what I mean.
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I have tested this a lot, on the the test drive, you can lock and directly hit the moving BTRs 100% of the time
But on custom battles is really dificult like 20% or even less.
The missile loses lock at the end and some times it gets confused if there are multiple vehicles close to each other.
On direct hit it does kill MBTs tho, and you can launch them from 25km that is like the max i can go before the game turns me back into the map
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This is basically how it is, it would been nicer to be in previous update but since we didn’t got any new aircrafts in this one (not counting 2 “new” F-18s) it is okay
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It shouldve come with the addition of Fox3 last summer, its rather DOA (atleast the 13.7 F2)
I think my main gripe is how much the devs shut down Japan mains about introducing it earlier and never gave it the time in the sun to be top dog.
We all knew how it would perform, and how well it would do, and how iconic a jet it is but the devs took their sweet time and introduced it way later than it probably should’ve, basically leaving some of us with a bitter aftertaste.
First AESA jet? Nah, Japan mains be damned, here’s a 13.7 several patches too late until the F-35A (or the Gripen E/F-15JSI if we’re lucky)
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I’m just glad it isn’t butchered on dev and actually is for the most part what I expected it to be.
I was worried it was going to have a wildly messed up flight model, if not underpowered, overpowered, getting everyone wanting to nerf it. The radar also seems very good and isn’t buggy like CAPTOR-M. Heck, even going back to the F-15J(M)'s radar, it feels so bad compared to the F-2’s radar.
Really the only thing I hope for is ASM-2 IR tank tracking but we’ll see what they do. I’ll be fine with L-JDAMs otherwise.
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