Nuclear Thunder!

The only advantages the F-15 in this has over the Mig-29 is just sheer missile count (Mostly just for the AIM-9M) and airframe.

The SARHs on the Mig-29 are by and far better than the AIM-7Fs.

If you play the lower tier against the F-4E and Mig-23. It’s literally just a clobber stomp for russia all the time since they just have straight up better aircraft.

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Can’t you take F4 with full bomb + missile loadout, seems to be more play wise balanced and gives you more stuff to do?

You can take every single pylon and the phantom’s radar would still be finnicky, that and its IR missiles are not really something out of the ordinary, the AIM-7E-2s are the saving grace of the F-4E.

I’d still pick a MiG-23MLD over the F-4E if I didn’t had both Russia and the US grinded.

Hard disagree. The AIM-54s are practically worthless missiles. If they were performing correctly. Sure. But in-game as it stands. They’re not. Even at High alts I was nearly keeping pace with my AIM-54A for a good 5-10 km with it barely overtaking me.

It’s still a good airframe.

The F-18 I’d argue is worse than the F-14 in the fact you bleed speed so quickly.

F-15 is the most meta because you get AIM-9Ms and with everyone multi-pathing. Having an IRCCM is much more important than smacking someone with a super slow AIM-7F that will just be multipathed.

I really wish they fix the queue system for the US teams because I too want to grind the B52, in my opinion they should put the F4E instead of the F4.

But people are just very scared to play as Russia (also Tu95 is kinda mid but whatever)

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lol love this ratio lol

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I wish I could play myself

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Didnt know they pull like 1/3 the amount of Fakours with half speed beyond 10kms… why didnt usa just license them duh

Personally the most exiting thing about Tu95 for me is that they added 23mm flare ammo (turret shooting flares) so this gives me hope for some gsh23mm able planes that are lacking in the flare departement

Playing the soviets 3 last matches were me joining in last 5-10 minutes of the game (atleast half the aa is gone… )

I feel slightly lucky I’m so use to as an Australian high pings i.e. 300-400 so being able to use all 3 servers with out much difference is funny.

I want to say that I am in love with this gamemode and as a sim player am begging, literally willing and have payed, that this becomes the new sim, if not the new rb. The community is focusing entirely on the balance and other nothings that are irrelevant and I’m praying gaijins takeaway isn’t that no one wants this.
I know Gaijin does actually listen, even with their reputation of not listening, If there was ever a time for them to not listen, its about not adding this to the game.
We need this.

That being said there are some issues and I think some probable fixes are:
Change it to Nato vs Warsaw, allow other nations planes to participate so no one is left out.
Make the game ending requirement be all enemy bases are destroyed, games are ending very quickly because people are rushing into the bombers, let everyone get a chance by extending the games.

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You cannot purchase the future tasks yet. Have to wait at least ~6 more days for the 5th task to appear. Might be 7 or 8 days.

They are not in the tree yet. But if you go to your Achievements, you can preview and then test drive them now.

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Cool event however the large bomber spawning on top of the air field and their being no alarm or any kind of notification is kinda disappointing.

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if used right the F-4E is quite the equal for the Mig-23, there’s been a few times where after the merge me and the MIG-23 ended up nose to nose

I agree with this. OR AT LEAST have them follow the same reload speed of a NON crew maxed/expert trained/Ace trained ground unit. It should not be instant like it is now.

I think the current Spawn Point gains are fine. Rewards like RP and SL’s ehhhhh, idk. I am making boatloads of RP and SL’s per match. Even considering the matches are quite long, I am still making great profits.

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It would be nice if it was playable…

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IDK how people are waiting for so long I literally can que and I’m in a match within a minute

Can we please keep the gamemode forever? I love it.

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Just had a row a matches with almost only preset planes (Phantom, mig-23 etc).

Imho the mig23 is better a2a than the Phantom. FM wise and R-24R is pretty consistent, the radar as well. Had better matches with rus than US. Most players don’t know how to handle SARH missiles, means 2 kills per sortie guaranteed.

The inbalance of the player queues is most likely cause of the B-52 main prize.

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