Next Major Update - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 1)

Lack of interest and care by Gaijin.
They always say “because of the lack of resources”, but then proceed to add lots of prototype, fake Russian stuff. Since apparently there is more information about secret modern Russian equipment (2S38 e.g.) and older Russian prototypes, then about Japanese, Thai or other possible Japanese additions vehicles.

E.g. 2S38, Izmael, Russian bluewater fleet, object tanks, etc…

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is that for the BP , if yes you do konw it needs to have guided bombs right (wich the HE-274 and JU-390 never had planned)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/1g1z6vv/239072_239075/

The newly-added/currently unused 500lb Antisubmarine Bomb, Mk.4 was included in a change to the display text for a small number of bombs.

New WT Mobile crosspromo vehicle:
♦ Bf 109C-1

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I’d Ignore P3 entirely

it’s only difference to P2 is Armor

I’d combine P1/2/4/5(only prototype, never flew)

and I’d add a field modification for P2 which replaced the BK3,7 with MK103 which is honestly a requirement to make the thing be able to grind it’s mods within reasonable time

it would combine all of German Cannon CAS planes capabilities into one pretty usable airframe

bigger than a Ju87, less armored than the Duck, less agile than the Me410 and slower than the Me262 but certainly more versatile than all of them

Heh if gaijin locked the He 111 H-21 behind a BP, I’d honestly not be shocked as it would be intentionally mean just like locking the Free French flag behind a Pre-Order bonus (millions of french ship players cry out in pain, for they now cannot receive such a flag).

More confirmation for subs? Cool

that’s the first actually OK looking Fictional skin I’ve seen

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SEAD + Sub update would be very good

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it’d be the best update this year imo

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Doubt that will happen in the near future.

So long as both the ARMs and Subs worked and the SEAD targets weren’t cranked up to god level :D

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Not even for Aim-9Ls? I think it could be spec’d appropriately for ~12.7…

I am still 50/50 on whether ARMs or subs will come this year and if they do I am fully expecting them to have issues as all new mechanics do…

I really hope the Murmansk has the Kingfishers with Soviet markings
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Oh yeah, if 1 in 10 ARMs hits a target for the first year, then we are already doing better than expected.

And yeah, Subs… I can see them flipflopping between useless and OP for a while.

But both would be fun either way.

As for timeframe. Subs I have no idea, could go either way.

SEAD gameplay, especially ARMs… I think more and more likely every update. The only logical reason I can think of as to why they havent added any new SPAA for top tier, is because they are about to jump top tier SPAA ahead by quite a bit for all nations, but want both sides in place first, such as having SEAD aircraft and maybe ECM?

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It will no doubt be a US Kingfisher, As seen by the Emerald class cruiser in game which you can see a FAA Kingfisher on the catapult but in the air it has US markings.

I see them only being useful in EC tbh. Most of the normal naval maps are two small for submarines to really exploit their capabilities imo.

I could see that. My question is however with older missiles like Shrike are they going to model different missiles with different seekers for going after specific bands or will they take some creative liberty with them and its a more or less one size fits all affair.

Update name threat unseen

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Yeah, I would concur, but Gaijin will try to balance them for use in NRB, without making radical changes to the maps. I reckon they’ll start on the surface for a few weeks and just get instantly one shotted. Then be moved to an underwater start to avoid that. Then their torps will go from being good to bad to good to bad. Constantly. Also their resistance to depth charges / how good sonar is will constantly change as well I reckon.

I suspect somewhere in the middle. Mostly accurate but for some will have bands that are ahistoric. Based upon the changes they made to RWR for “balance”. The changes will result in Soviet ARMs being able to hit any NATO SPAA, but no ARM will be able to see K band to target the Pantsir (and I would assume later Soviet SPAA also uses K band)

Definetly works. Maybe even throw the F-117 in that update too :D