The issue comes from history. Look at 2023. The UK got 3 new aircraft (TT or premium)
Sea harrier FRS1e
Tornado F3
Gripen C
Jaguar IS (event)
Strikermaster (battlepass)
US got:
F-14B
F-15A
P36C (affiliate)
F-4S (premium)
BF2C-1
F-111A
F16C
A-7K (event)
Would it have been unreasonable for the UK to have gotten 1 or 2 more aircraft? Especially given we had 2 majors without a single one and the F3 wasnt really “good” until 2024 and im still waiting on Major bug fixes for the Sea Harrier FRS1e to be fixed (hopefully this major) and was largely a C&P of an aircraft we got 9 months before
Yeah, like… when they start mentioning Mosquito variants and stuff, I’m like… I can do that too for the U.S, behold;
"Where’s P-40B? Where’s P-40C (one with more than 14 overpriced units available on the Marketplace)? Where’s P-40D? Where’s P-40N? Where’s F-2G2? Where’s… " and I have no idea about WW2 planes; if I knew anything about them, I would probably be able to name 30, hahah.
Yeah I’d rather have F-22 Christmas and F-35 later since they need to have mechanics added and refined before it can come in all it’s $2 trillion glory
F-22 can be added in an early version with significantly weaker missiles (what we have now) but tbh F-35 is kind of pointless unless it comes with more modern weaponry
F-35 also depends more on fancy tech stuff which isn’t really done well or even in-game at all in some cases. I’ve been keeping track of new mechanics and all boxes have been checked for the raptor
For instance, i didn’t read the change from Gaijin’s stance on introducing SPAAs from ‘all nations’ to ‘most’ up until today, and honestly it was dissapointing as FINALLY a ground improvement would’ve been added simultaneously for every nation.
But they backed up. Anyway.
Just because some nations only had the Eurofighter for top tier shouldn’t mean they get nothing.
When all nations have plenty of unique and C&P that could have been added to fill out their ranks.
Many of the updates nations got nothing, they could have been padded out with some reskins at worst.
A stroll through the suggestions section easily shows plenty that could have been added, just not top tier.
But instead they get no content, then fewer people play the nations, leaving only the dedicated to the nation and in turn the players get good, vehicles BR gose up(and here starts the BR loops, that make even less play the nation).
Yeah, at least they seem to be doing a good job with naval.
They might have actually learnt from the mistakes of the past in that regard.
But yeah… They dropped the ball on the SPAA and even if for Britain, the Skysabre just wasnt ready in time. Why are we getting the Badger and not something like the Boxer or Ajax for actual top tier. Something we’ve been jsut as desperate for
Do you think the SLM will be playable, or just a static map thing?
Like last year / early this year, we seen a bunch of assets for things like Patriot get leaked, but the general consensus was, these would just end up being static things in air battles or something, but lots of people got hyped assuming they’d add Patriot as a playable thing.
Do you not think it’s kinda plausible that SLM ends up being a similar situation?
I’m just struggling to see how they make a 3 separate vehicle system work I guess.
@Smin1080p_WT I wonder, is there any Progress of the Raytracing for Consoles?
Because the Bugs are getting more and more while the report for it is now since more than 3 Weeks on Info Requested…
I think systems like Patriot and S-300 will 100% be AI targets and not player vehicles, but SLM is just about reasonable enough for introduction I think.
I was guessing 20-25km would be the target ballpark and maybe we’ll see the SLM soft-nerfed somehow to not be quite as extreme as 40km but it is the only way I can see a lot of nations getting anything is by moving the goalpost forward a lot and is the only way I can see of them unnerfing weapon systems like Brimstone.
Other nations can keep pace with the SLM like CAMM-MR for Britain (and maybe Italy?) and the US has the extended range thingy for the SLAMRAAM which would be similar sort of range .
It’s just when I was reading all the stuff about that new Chinese SPAA, and please correct me if I’m wrong (as I know very little about Chinese stuff), but people were saying it could use longer range missiles than what snail gave it in the devblog.
That would suggest that snail, seemingly view Pantsir range and below as a sort of ideal for what they want SPAA to have. At least with Spyder they could limit it to Python-5 to achieve that same range envelope.
But SLM is just going to be massively ahead of everything, which makes me wonder if it’s just going to end up like the Patriot leaks.