I was honestly on gaijins side for this as it seemed pretty obsolete vs just allowing the likes of brimstone and similar to have their more practical modes.
standoff missiles allow CAS players to stick at comically far ranges outside of the grips of the best of SAMs gaijin has added, removes any kind of risk with plenty of reward. At least even a full blown self-targeting mode 3 brimstone has to be fired well within range of a SAM giving risk to reward.
Gaijins opened pandoras box, might as well add all of the possible standoffs at this point, will suck for GRB but would actually be really good for nuclear escalation (I assume that is why they are adding them)
heres photos from the dev to reference (not my photos)
1st dev
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finalised
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previous live server
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this is the bug report that was marked as “fixed” when its trunnion pins got modelled but it never made it to live server and was just seemingly removed for some unknown reason
This is the report that was fixed. The pins are present. It was confirmed with the developers they shouldn’t be present all the way into the structure. So the report is correctly concluded.
most of my bug reports have taken a month or so to be noticed and get an initial response unless i spoke to a tech mod about it (dont just randomly message tech mods) during a conversation on Discord.
Fokker is one of the few interesting BeNeLux additions, but it doesn’t actually fill a capability gap, it’s just nice that’s it’s not a straight up imported copy-paste design.
There are plenty of issues with the lack of French air and ground designs being added, but it’s easy enough to just point to 2026 so far, as France is the only tree not to get a new domestic plane and/or tank all year
france’s top tier MBT just gets nerfed to the ground and is currently the worst top tier imo (yes worse than the ARIETE, atleast it can tank 30mm apds frontally unlike the leclerc lmao
