you should’ve foreseen this and denied the F-14D suggestion, then. this was never going to be any different than this
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im pretty much just a player with a title who accepts/rejects forum suggestions
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i cannot tell if you are serious or not
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take it how you will, i said what i said. the lack of communication shows gaijin clearly doesn’t intend to fix this horrible D.O.A plane, so whatever.
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okay…
A) Suggestion was approved AND passed long before I was suggestion mod
B) The suggestion itself is valid. The reviewer had* no reason to deny it, and there is no reason to deny it now.
C) It is the developer’s discretion on how they want to model a vehicle. It is not down to us (the Suggestion Mods) or the original author (@Nostalgistic , who in this case is running a poll you can vote on about a future F-14D Tech Tree addition)
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You’re misunderstanding the role of the Suggestion Moderators. They have no influence over what gets into the game or not nor in what form it gets in the game if it comes at all.
( Suggestions Covert Disclosure - April 2026 - The first and hopefully only one )
All they do is pass along the suggestions to the developers. There are suggestions passed to the developers since years back that are not implemented, and the opposite sometimes also happen, where they send a suggestion and then just a few weeks later a Devblog for that vehicle comes because the developers were already working on it even before the suggestion was sent.
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My two cents on this are that for this price tag and significance of the vehicle, it should receive its best possible and most advanced loadout.
This current vehicle/offering is just disrespectful and a slap into the face of every player and the suggester.
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The best version of an aircraft should never be a prem, especially one so popular as the F-14.
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Proposition:
-Premium F-14D w/ AIM-7Ps,AIM-9M,AIM-54+.
-TT F-14D(R) with same loadout at same BR.
-Squadron F-14A-65-GR with access to AMRAAMs, historically accurate.
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Or rename the F-14D (pack) to F-14D (early) and add a late one with the cool loadouts at a higher BR. If they wanna make the premium this boring copypaste, let them do it, but give us the unique one tech tree
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What would be the 1998 configuration? As far as I can tell between what’s in the game (original model used in Top Gun and B being the mid-late 90’s upgraded version with bombs and all), and what I listed in that wall of a post, that covered every major variant, testing versions, and important upgrades (or at least ones that were already set up calling the in game tech tree plane the ‘early’ version of the F-14A).
Eh. Better to add as few missiles to airframes that never used them as possible in this day and age. Plus, my version still has an AIM-120-armed F-14 and a TT version of the prem, so no unique gameplay is locked behind a paywall similar to the early F-18 situation with 7Ps…
Also, copy-paste premiums are healthiest for the game but I’m not sure a large chunk of the playerbase is ready for that conversation yet.
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F-14D retired it 2006, it definitely used AIM-9Ms and AIM-7Ps
Yes that’s the best imo for adding amraams to F-14. All I’m saying is we don’t need the premium one to be a good one, since they seemingly want it to be that then let them make it that. But the tech tree one must be cool
I’m ready for that conversation because I agree :D
The premium F-16AM is imo one of the best things that could have happened, it gives us hope that we won’t get a unique plane behind paywall anytime soon (for France)
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Fair enough, lol. I’ll admit that the squadron version might be a bit optimistic, but then again, with the amount of people who GE squadron vehicles… It’d still make Gaijin a fair bit of money while not relying on FOMO/excessive grind for free players.
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Let’s say they really wanted to make the best version premium for the money. Seriously …
It’s more concerning that they got EVERYTHING wrong, they even…buffed the engines . It has armament it shouldn’t have…because there was no 54C the time it came. There was only 54C ECCM/sealed, which is VERY DIFFERENT than 54C.
It is far more concerning that they…don’t even fix AIM-54s according to real data. While they accept the azzpull values that are CLAIMS, not official things of F90 as legit.
It is more concerning that they don’t give it even 9M…because it still has the supposed OP nerfed 54s that aren’t even according to 54 data.
And for all that work that they haven’t done because they are garbage company and lazy af or biased af , i don’t care , they ask you money for a premium plane.
And , it’s not that difficult to just make an APG-71 in the game , when you already have a craptone of PD radars like APG-70 etc. You just rename some files and change values… It’s not that it has ALL its modes or something unique it may had…
So yes, the most concerning for me is that their work has quality of toilet material (and not only for F-14 , it happens more than not in general lately) . Not that it is premium.
They could just do 14D TT, 14D(R) premium and NF-14D squad. They could even give the NF-14A that tested AMRAAMs with pictures in an event.
So no i don’t care what’s premium or not at this point.
I care that their quality is crap and they even dare to ask for money for that crap…
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Basically regular F-14B with TF30s
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NF-14D doesn’t have to be the best version, least not long term. F-14D with the software upgrade that was planned put in to the tech tree, where it belongs right next to the F-15C GE, could have the top of the line of missiles, with the NF-14D having one stage down.
So - for arguments sake, and the lack of 9X on aerial platforms, let’s say this premium, renamed NF-41D, sticks with AIM-9L’s, AIM-7M’s, but get’s access to the AIM-120B as an option besides the AIM-54’s, leaving an option for 14A-65 to run the the 120A’s which would be the most accurate to it, and then in the tech tree, you have the F-14D with the software upgrade that they shifted the funding for as the true ‘last stage’ of the Tomcat’s development around 2006 running 9M’s, 7P’s, and 120C-5’s (since that’s the most advanced C model in game, unless they want to give it the C7). Which also leaves the proper F-14D available for the tech tree with the improved AIM-54C, and the Rebuild D’s can become a squadron vehicle or the like (alongside possibly 14A-65, but something like that feels like an event vehicle like the XF5U).
Not knowing if the 14D(R)'s had any model differences that they can’t be copy pasted from either the D or A model, at that point - you’ve got the money put in to developing the F-14D model for the game and all, NF-14D with AMRAAM’s is likely going to sell more than base 14D just because of performance, let alone if people rebel and actually boycott it, and you can literally copy and paste that model for the software upgrade and toss the new missiles on, which if it doesn’t further encourage the sales might generate some income on people throwing GE at it to get to the better missiles and all faster, similar story with the F-14D, but also having the F-14D(R) as the squadron vehicle with whichever version of AIM-54 they want could generate further sales in people buying GE to get it now instead of at best like 2-3 months from now. While still leaving open further copy/paste in the original F-14A+ as a possible lower BR premium (granted it might be slightly better than the tech tree A cause of the engines) and the 14A-65 as an event vehicle most likely, if not a squadron vehicle, which as a premium and event vehicle respectively allows them to generate even more money with lower production cost off both vehicles for a higher profit margin.
AMRAAM tomcat will sell a lot more, they can then more cheaply throw the real F-14D and the software patch one in to the tech tree at significantly lower costs, and generate a squadron vehicle - of which those last 3 will generate some income though not as much as the NF-14D, but all of which will likely help encourage the purchase of the NF-14D. They get the money they want, we get the Tomcat’s we want with the capabilities they had/we want based on what could and should have been, everyone wins.
…Giving practically all of them AMRAAMs just stinks, though. There’s no need to make the air portion of the game even more of an unhistorical mess willfully :/ F-14A-65-GR should be the only one to use them, just like reality, and most if not all variants of the F-14D shouldn’t have to suffer to run their historically accurate loadout at a higher BR because of AMRAAM meta-adherents…
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It would work better if there were two versions of it, with the Tech Tree variant carrying the AIM-120s. While this wouldn’t be entirely historically accurate, many players would likely enjoy it much more.
There are already aircraft in the game that use missiles they never historically carried, so implementing something like this should be straightforward. There’s no need to overcomplicate the issue.
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Giving the F-14D AMRAAMs is overcomplicating the issue, given it’s letting Gaijin get away with the AIM-54’s current state and lack of the AIM-54C+. It’s a bandaid fix for a problem that should not exist, and wishful thinking for an aircraft that doesn’t need those missiles.
I don’t believe the IRIAF should keep the R-27s either, they should be replaced with the R-73s that were actually successfully tested by the Iranian air force.
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