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

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3659

I am speaking in terms of gameplay-wise addition. They are clearly meant to be transitional planes to the future IRIS-T / Meteor slingers that will come alongside 5th gen fighters, hence the artificially limited loadouts, etc.

You seem to think it would have been great to see this come before the ones we already got. So I wonder, what exactly makes these variants so much worse that they would have been perfectly balanced against F-16Cs and MiG-29SMTs?

And in any case, I don’t even get what all this rambling is about. That “Gaijin did not do (X) in the past”? So what? We are well past that already. We got Rafales, we got Eurofighters, what’s all of this even about anymore!?

3660

True, though that is because the Typhoon is massively ahisotrically nerfed whilst no one else is

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3661

This applies to literally everyone at top tier

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3662

Tranche 2 Block 10 and Block 15 introduced IRIS-T and Meteors.

I don’t.

3663

Rafale never had a MSA Radar in any form and the Avionics remained mostly the same, except various Software updates.

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3664

Not to the game. Because it’s way, way too early for them.

Gaijin will probably add newer tranche and Rafale variants in a higher BR with these new munitions in the future along with Russian and American counterparts.

3665

Then Tranche 1 Eurofighters would have been the better choice.

3666

Everyone else has AGMs they actually used and they aren’t massively nerfed.

Whilst the US is limited to only 6x AGM-65s on the F-15E, the F-15E did actually carry 6x AGM-65s and they are fully modeled.

Typhoon never used Brimstone 1s and ontop of that they are limited to SAL only.

Then we also have a massively restricted GBU loadout

3667

And what exactly would we have gained with this…?

3668

Typhoons?

3669

F-15E, F-16C, and AV-8B all missing GBU loadouts as well

3670

Didn’t Smin say it is Brimstone2s limited to just laser+INS?

3671

No, they are brimstone 1’s

3672

So that’s what this is about?

Getting 3 practically identical variants of the same plane at the same BR for… some reason?

3673

Ignores the Gripen despite that literally having multiple BR’s if it was correctly implemented and limited with its equipment.

3674

No, brimstone 2s would have 40-60km range and decent HOBS. What we have is dual-mode brimstone 1s

3675

Yes, but they aren’t dependent on GBUs for most of their CAS

3676

It didn’t make sense to skip straight to upgraded T2 typhoons, for air combat they would’ve been very similar afaik and it just doesn’t make sense to go straight to a later version. T1 BLK 5 wouldve been a fine 14.0

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3677

A more linear progression, more variants to unlock for different BRs, more money for Gaijin to earn.

Tranche 1 should be the one with only AIM-9Ms and AIM-120Bs.
Tranche 2 Block 10/15 should introduce improved DASS, better A2G and maybe better AMRAAMs.
Tranche 2 Block 20 could come as a stepping stone towards Tranche 3 with IRIS-Ts and Meteors.
Tranche 3 should introduce the CAPTOR-E AESA radar and further A2G upgrades (and IRIS-Ts+Meteors if they skip the Tranche 2 Block 20 variant)

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3678

Neither is UK, they have other options like brimstone