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

good evening. guessing not much interesting happened today?

C-5 can theorically exceed 20 km too.

What I mean is; who the hell allows themselves to be hit by a missile past 20 km? You get the RWR screeching at you for 3 minutes and you know all you have to do to avoid that missile is gently turning, maybe drop a chaff or two…

I find far more interesting a missile that will pull 270º turns to hit any plane within 15 km.

uh, not all of us like playing sober.
other than that, some people are just bad lol.
friend of mine does the iraqi classic of turning off his rwr because it annoys him

lmao

But unlike the PL-15 and Meteor the AIM-260 isn’t in service yet. So i doubt it’ll be added at any point soon

They have been testing it for a little while now, I don’t think it’s hit IOC yet like the AIM-174 but it’s pretty close.

And they do still add tested weapons or compatible weapons, otherwise Swiss premium hornet wouldn’t have 7P

Meteor and PL-15 probably won’t be added for some time too so it’ll be fine

Yeah, the earlier HOBS improvements on other AMRAAM should help in this area. It’ll have better speed once it hits at 20km or less probably, which I like

I cant wait for meteor to be added only for it to be mid af, missing half its features and overhyped like AIM-54 and then see everybody on the forums complaining about it.

It will then get some fixes in 2 years that make it better but it will still be mid overall.

I’ve gotten multiple kills with the C5 with 60km launches. Usually US F-15Es that are AFK, but a few against aircraft definetly trying to defend. Abusing the terrible state of BOL by targeting Typhoons and Gripens works quite well and J-10s also seem to die quite often

Though. I will agree.Id gladly take HOBS over range at the moment

What speed and altitude usually?

This was a double kill I got. So you can have a look yourself, but usually quite high

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfDYCqjg-4Q&ab_channel=MorvranLive

Russia has R-77M and R-77ME tho

This

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Improoved range of up to 160km on regular R-77M

From a quick search the R-77M is still in development for the SU-57 and there’s nothing known about it. So not a contender. It’s even less likely compared to the AIM-260

Its very strange to often ask for more communication from us and developers, and yet, when an offical answer comes directly from the developers, its thrown out.

We appreciate plans have changed in the past, but we can only provide the information we have at the time, which comes from the devs directly.

As a general rule, that is entirely correct. When something however exceeds the point of being potentially a damaging claim to say something is planned for X update or part of the year, which also lead to people making outlandish claims of “The devs are not fixing bugs because they are already rushing stealth/5th gen for Christmas 2025!”, we feel the need to step in at this point. As its both entirely untrue and incorrect, leading to many others being mislead.

Once again, as we have said before, you are entirely free to not trust statements. We can only provide the current up to date information directly from the offical source, the dev team.

I will leave our previous statement in reference here from the devs:

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With all due respect, it wouldn’t be the first time.e you guys say one thing and do the complete opposite.

But alas I really hope the 5th hen stuff you say is true. I really don’t want to see it in game before some major changes occur

Plans change from time to time and we have never denied that. Its the simple and practical reality of game development. If and when they do, we always provide our reasoning and detailed explanations of why that is and what changed if we have said something previously that differed.

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surely people dont think the game is ready for fifth gen right?

Remember when people said the game wasn’t ready for the F-16, now look

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It’s been getting more and more ready with each passing update

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Yeah ready to be milked to high heaven lol

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