Next Major Update - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion

At least someone who will actually prepare for the stream and won’t repeat “you know” after each phrase.

You know that not a bad idea you know and just to say you know I agree with you, you know lol

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Ight peoples, what have I missed this weekend?

Nothing baring more bugs

So nothing too surprising?
Fair enough.

They are adding cruise missiles and player controlled ICBM

Lemme guess, unconfirmed leak (someone’s wishlist, probably) or something?
Or are we just saying stuff and seeing how people react?

Joking, added ICBM part so it’s really obvious

We rge players have decided James May should host the next devstream

m’kay, yeah I figured it was something along those lines.
Just tired from trying to figure out VR piloting with my new HOTAS lol

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fun.
guess I’ll have to find time to actually watch it if they decide to pull something like that (we all know they won’t ):
proceeds to skip school that day

how old are you?

Not old enough to down a stubby with the mates, it seems.

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depends on where in the world you are.
In America, no. In Europe, yes. (I’m American)

When will we have cruise missiles? It won’t break the gameplay since we already have the glide and propel bombs. The new thing with the cruise missiles would be that they follow the terrain without crashing into a mountain like a glide bomb would. Don’t shoot too much. It would just be necessary for the cruise missiles to be considered as planes so that the AAA or enemy ships can defend themselves a little without letting themselves die.

and I can well imagine in the equipment options choosing whether we want the missile to hover or fly at 8000 meters like the explosion time for a bomb

The issue is range. Grom-1s were rightly removed because they had too great a range. True Cruise missiles take that to an absolute extreme and we simply dont have maps large enough to properly balance them. As much as Id love Storm Shadows. They would break gamemodes like ASB

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The Grom-1 is different, it’s a gliding bomb that can go beyond Mach 1. I’m talking about cruise missiles. Gaijine nerfed the FOX 3 because otherwise the maps would be too small too. So they can also nerf the cruise missiles which are subsonic

The big advance in gameplay with cruise missiles would be terrain tracking, otherwise it behaves like a gliding bomb that maintains its speed at Mach 0.9

Grom-1 were literally removed for their ability to destroy bases cross map in ASB.

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It will be different with cruise missiles, given their large volume few planes will be able to take them in number and cruise missiles with more than 500 kg of explosive are rare, so I think that the problem of making all the enemy bases at the start of the game is solved

Again, not why Grom-1s were removed.

The problem.

Su-34s could take off, hard climb, target a base or AF and fire. Then either RTB (if they wanted SL/RP) or J-out (if they only wanted score). Repeat

With proper cruise missiles, you can take off, once at launch speed which would be even easier than the Grom-1s. You can fire at any target on the map. It doesnt matter if they have smaller warheads, You would have some sending dozens accross the map constantly. Farming score and RP/SL without even leaving the AAA of the AFs.

Like Grom-1s they would break SB economy

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