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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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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