yeah…
Besides T-2 / Gripen as you say, I can only remember CL-13Mk5, that very brief period when FGR2/FG1 uniquely had PD, and I think I recall an equally brief period where Mirage 2k-5 was doing pretty well.
But yeah. It’s extremely few and far between where US/RU isn’t defining & dominating the meta.
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As you should ;)
Hopefully
I know that many people say C&P about ASEAN aircraft. Certainly the Jas39C in Thailand and the F-16A in Singapore or Indonesia are C&P, but there are many distinctive aircraft that are not C&P, such as the F-16D+, F-16A(e)MLU, su30mkm, etc. There are also many unique vehicles such as tanks and other combat vehicles, but I am also against adding the Leopard2A4 to Japan because Japan does not have a single vehicle with a BR 10.0-10.7.
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Eft largely outclasses Rafale in every way except radar though tbh
I have been talking about the de grass for ages since French naval was a thing. These post war 5in and 57mm bofors are not fun to mess with especially for CL and DDs, or poorly protected CAs like BRITISH, Soviet or American designs.
Not really. Early version maybe, but if anything Rafale holds some advantages like A2G load and range. In most other aspects they are damn close in performance
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Range is largely irrelevant to WT, and although the Rafale can carry more a2g what would they even have that is good enough for them to leverage that payload
This week and otherwise next week we have the start of the new devblog season.
In ARB, Id consider pretty equal, though the Rafale will be able to get away with running less internal fuel
in GRB, the Rafale will hold the advantage, especially if we are limited to SAL-only Brimstone 2s for our AGMs
in ASB… Its gunna be close. Range does have an impact in that gamemode, though both can super-cruise.
Something else to consider withwise to the range argument though. Hopefully they add bigger maps sooner rather than later.
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Of course, I’m mostly just here assuming based on the leaks I’ve seen so far. However my theory for how it went is something along the lines of:
- Thailand idea planned for Japan at the beginning of the year or maybe even sooner, F-5E FCU added to test player reception
- Ground subtree conceptualized, including more ASEAN nations (Indonesia, Singapore) following the trend of multi-national subtrees
- More work done on that since the initial leak in summer
- Sudden demand for a Chinese subtree becomes clear, likely around the time of the BVVD interview
- Idea of moving ASEAN assets to China conceptualized as a way to get such a subtree faster than Gaijin initially planned
- Leopard 2A4 addition planned to test reception, while new found “holes” left by the removed ASEAN nations are filled with simple C&P aircraft Thailand operated, like the F-5A.
This would obviously suggest the squadron 2A4 is canned, since player reception was clear with the leak.
Now the question is what that means going forward.
With Thailand going to Japan that basically ruins a standalone ASEAN tree and Singapore and Indonesia very much shouldn’t go to China so they will likely be added to part of a multi-nation subtree for Japan again.
Probably it’ll be just ASEAN Founders, not all of them though, since the suggestion for that was popular, and it leaves ASEAN nations like Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar to be Chinese subtrees Gaijin wants, alongside Bangladesh, Pakistan, North Korea.
But this is really just my idealized hope, there is a lot Gaijin could do wrong, even if I may stay hopeful they won’t.
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It sucks, teamkilling happens , i get it. Especially iff friendly kills, but multiple times the radar has listed a friendly as an enemiy in my case, it happens . And now you got harriers in both sides of the battle in most battles. Which makes visual ID harder if they dont get close enough. I rarely team kill in higher tier with iff now , its a god send. But game is borked sometimes.
I think thats also a good idea , to learn iff on radar, but not all planes have it . I ran into a guy the other day that dodnt realize the symbolgy was different in PD and SRC mode after he team killed me twice in a row. Lol well he killed me 3 times but im pretty sure he got auto kicked after
I think what catches people out the most, is that not every aircraft has IFF, nor does every radar mode for aircraft that do have IFF. (they could with making the tooltip in the hanger more clear about which modes do and do not have IFF)
There use to be a bug as well, with switching between a radar mode without IFF to a mode with IFF and it not updating. But most often its in things like F-4S where im confident its because the person has no idea what IFF is.
As for Harriers on both teams… At some brackets yes. In this one. Nope. It was a 10.0-11.0 lobby. AV-8S would have been in the bracket below and the AV-8B+ would have been in the bracket above. The ONLY harriers in game had to be the SHar and so friendly. (unless someone had been insane enough to bring a 9.7 to fight 11.0s, which they hadnt)
It is exactly that, which could be demonstrated in a tutorial
Its funny cause whenever i get teamkilled in sim its either mid dogfight , or coming back to base to rearm , both are situations which give the teamcmaye ample time to see whos the bad guy. I also was unaware of that bug but it makes so much more sence now for issues i had in the past. I was usually awitching radar modes trying to get a lock and what not.
Yeah, MP definitely isn’t what it used to be.
Even if you do everything right, and send it into the dirt, it feels very common to get fragged by the splash.
These E/I’s are launching with such insane velocity, and from so high up, that the AoA these AMRAAM’s come from are damn near unotchable, unchaffable, and un-MP-able lol.
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Yeah, similar for me too. And yeah, use to catch me out all the time in the FGR2.
(I also think people have this expectation that the missile will either go for the target it was fired at or self-destruct and quite often i was taken out by a missile that swapped targets. It seemed like in the last ban wave, a lot of people were TKing like mad because they were spamming missile without thinking about proximity to teammates )
cant it bring the pgm? arent those more or less equal to kh38?