yeah, a tech tree version at a different BR can get it
no version will get it
the game will not be able to handle it similar to the anti air shells for the yamatos main calibre gun
its just one big blast, vs the AA rounds with tons of little pieces
then ask smin
iam sure he will tell you the same
ontop of that it wont be able to be balanced and i dont think that you want the f-106 any higher than 9.7
if its that big of a concern they can just add more F-106 with different loadouts at different BR’s
holy cope batman
there will be at most be a single tech tree one, if they are even adding one
You have got to get over your nuke obsession. They’re not going to add the Genie.
God, the poor 106 would get a ground BR of 12.0 to compensate for that as well.
they could probably get 2 tech tree with the different stuff that was tested on it, even without nukes
ban it from ground battles, or make it 3000sp
the Genie is the most important weapon on the F-106
No, the Super Falcon/SAGE combo was the most important weapon on the F-106.
The Genie was a panic button that no ground or flight crew was comfortable dealing with.
Calm down, you don’t need the make the sea of irradiated colbalt in every air battle
how come many F-106 units opted to keep the Genie instead of switching to the gun then?
Still won’t be enough to one shot an Su-25 anyway :P
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I mean maybe they just fly in a way that reduces damage, don’t see many other aircraft try that /j
Because 106 squadrons were deployed in the great up north where they were supposed to intercept nuclear carrying bombers, not dogfighting MiGs. Making several passes with a gun is not conducive to that job.
Its primary and most important weapon was the AIM-4/MA-1/SAGE combination, no matter how much you cope about the Genie.
From what testing i’ve done in custom missions the engine should be able to handle it somewhat? Beehive shells aren’t possible due to
- The amount of fragmentation spawned
- The physics range of the fragmentation in order to cover an appropriate area.
These issues aren’t present on weapons such as nukes which rely on shockwaves to do damage. Now there’d still be issues, like there would have to be new visual effects and such added, but that’s not a hard limitation like whats stopping beehive shells.
All that being said though, I really really do not forsee gaijin adding nukes, they’d simply be too hard to balance and counterplay against them would not be fun.
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the problem isnt a single one, by the nature of arb there will be multiple launched at the start of a match
and i dont want to imagine what happens if there are 10 of them in the air at once
besides obvious balancing issues
It wouldn’t be enough to prevent a helicopter from firing off (and somehow hitting) a bunch of ATGMs either.
Dont worry, Gaijin might be gracious and fulfill their promise by adding a reskinned c&p Re.2000, another tech tree bf 109 and a FW. There, your" low tier Hungarian aviation"
didnt MA-1 have the ability to line up Genie shots, and Genies were made to be shot into Soviet bomber formations which you said was its main job.
as cool as the MA-1 and Super Falcons are, they didnt have the firepower to bring down fleets of Soviet bombers, and were plagued with severe reliability issues, while AIR-2 did not have this problem afaik