Major Update "Firebirds" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 2)

[squidgy4]

By gaijin?

[squidgy4]

Nvm thanks

[SPANISH_AVENGER]

@Morvran_

The next major will have a plethora of visual effect updates

Oh, this actually answers one of the questions I had!

So, apart from Ray Tracing and vapor effects, there will be more!!! YAY!

[Morvran]

I wonder what else there is to add though

[GamerFromSpace]

Oh I know their coming, just thought to share my excitement, plus had a busy few days with work

[oom1992]

@MokaMoki

skipping the Legacy Hornet (F-18A)

Why someone sure gaijin skipped USN F/A-18A in 1980’s ?

Or it might new premium pack rank 8 in the future ?

@MokaMoki

I have to imagine that if Gaijin did indeed jump directly to the F/A-18C

Early batch F/A-18C/D 1980’s radar, FLIR & laser designator pods, engine and armament like F/A-18A ?

McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet: Continuing a Proud Tradition

poll [image] History The Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which entered service in 1974, was a great air superiority fighter and interceptor for carrier air wing. Only problem is that the Tomcat was too expensive and quite hassle to maintain acceptable mission capable rate. Therefore the U.S. Navy had no choice but to reduce Tomcat purchases even before it entered service. At that time, U.S. Navy still used old-school F-4 Phantom II and A-7E Corsair II. Because the reduced quantity of Tomcat was not eno…

[GamerFromSpace]

Hopefully better afterburners, ones you can download are infinitely better

[squidgy4]

The effects in the screenshot look good but i hope final product looks like this
(Didnt have time to crop the screenshot lol)

[artan24]

[GamerFromSpace]

I’m curious to what planes will get them, I’m hoping that all top tier planes at a minimum

[TurboSmokeur]

It will probably be a global thing like the vortices on the tip of the wing, who knows

One thing I wish they changed is the sound rounds make whenever they hit the ground. Current one sounds old and weird like hitting a bag of sand with a bat

[JohnTitor71910]

Do you know anything about ray tracing or other graphic changes?

[LeonDasPro]

You can clearly see from these photos the OS2U Kingfisher livery was changed in Russian service…

Note the lack of the previously prominent fuselage star n bar.

Russian stars were added later

[GamerFromSpace]

I doubt it will be global, as seen from images it’s already different between f16 and gripen. Shape, size and placement of vortices is greatly affected by aircraft geometry, I assume they made internal tools to add vortices easily to aircraft

[TurboSmokeur]

When do you guys think the teaser will drop?

[SPANISH_AVENGER]

Hopefully, tomorrow; and the day after tomorrow, stream and server.

Otherwise, if they wait till next week, there would be too little time between the dev server and the update release to fix most of the issues that will surely be present.

[Deathmisser]

Tomorrow lol

[TurboSmokeur]

That’s what I was thinking too since the update is supposed to come out in early November and the dev server usually lasts about two weeks

[Major_Majestic36]

Hopefully tiny teaser today because such a long time without devblogs 👉👈

[GamerFromSpace]

Teasers are on Thursdays