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

I doubt that they will. After the Su-22s makes no sense, and I don’t get why they would put it in the bomber line either. It’ll either be after the tornado or the F-4F, depending on if it has ground strike capability or not.

I’m hoping it’s after the F-4F because I don’t even have the G.91 yet, but I will begin research on the F-4F once I unlock the Mig-29.

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Might get multiple, the same way the multitude of Tech Tree F-4’s in the US line are not all sequential.

I’m confused by this comment. The F-15E makes sense after the Aardvark…

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on the topic of this particular list
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while I do believe it might be missing things (namely Russia/Japan not having anything resembling a competitive top tier jet on this list)

I do believe it for one main reason. The F-15E/Ra’am. Gaijin added these in, which were out the gate better than the F-15C which was already the best 13.7 in the game prior to this update.

It makes sense that they’d need to introduce a large spread of aircraft to other nations to try to even things out because dear god the 15E is just ridiculous.

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Gszabi spreadsheet seems to say the first devblog will be somewhere on the dates 01-09/12/2024.

It is written as 2024-12-0?

USAF F-16C/D Blk 25 & Blk 30/32 fired AIM-7M

But F-16CG (Block 40/42) and F-16CJ & F-16CM (Block 50/52) access AIM-120 only

I’m 100% sure (and add some copium as well) that it’s not complete yet, because surely they wouldn’t add such a depressing ground update as the december update.

Surely they wouldn’t (huffs some more copium)

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I highly suspect the devlogs will be on the 2nd, 09 would be too late

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i don’t think it’d matter whether or not is has ground strike capability. to me, it’s just a matter of germany finally making their own stuff and that the “west aligned” and “east aligned” tech lines are just done, time for the “euro line” and that’s what the alpha and tornado represent.

though it does make sense to order them by role or succession

You say this like Gaijin didn’t just make AIM-120 the best ARH (in most circumstances) and plonk it straight onto the best airframe to use them.

J-11A is still 13.7 despite being proabably worse than KWS in almost all ways.

Gaijin have 0 and I repeat 0 qualms about giving US nigh-unbeatable kit and calling it a day.

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yeah bro imma keep it real. Ground focused updates will become rarer as it becomes harder and harder to keep everyone on a relatively “even” playing field.

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yeahhhhh no… I agree the J-11A needs to go down to 13.3 but it’s better than the 13.0 Fox 3 carriers. The base J-11 already is one of the best 13.0s as is

Airplanes are becoming that way too, though.

Like, Eurofighter is pretty much the most advanced plane many nations can get. Later Tranches of that will be likely the strongest planes a lot of nations can get, end of.

Airplanes are approaching that issue but arent at that issue right now. Several nations ground wise have hit that wall already. What are you gonna give Japan or China for MBTs?

A terrible radar, possibly the single worst ARH and 1 datalink channel? Which 13.0 is this better than?

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the base Su-27/J-11 in their current states… are among the best 13.0s in the game. The J-11A is the same plane, but with an option for an ARH, and a MAWS… there is no way the F-4F ICE is better.

To be fair, I still think there are stages in between ground focussed updates and just straight up depressing updates for ground.

Like I’m not expecting ground focussed updates anymore, even though there are still plenty ground vehicles to add for pretty much every BR.

However updates also shouldn’t be straight up depressing for ground players, like most of the updates this year and like what this update seems to be shaping up to be.

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Last good ground update was Air Superiority and that wasn’t even centered around ground vehicles lol

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That is my line of thinking as well but partially copium.

I guess in the future add 2 F-4 battle rating 11.0 to rank 7 in researchable tree and 2 F-4 on premium tree

And 2 F-4 after F-4E & F-4J in rank 8

Rank 7

  • F-4D (group before F-4E)
  • F-4N
  • F-4B (3rd event vehicle)
  • F-4E Early (Blk 31) (first premium GE)

Rank 8

  • F-4E (1986) (Blk 60 or 66)
  • F-4S Late