Dear Gaijin, I see no clear incentive to buy this premium in its current state. The Tornado is a very interesting and unique plattform that surely deserves its spotlight in the game. The Marineflieger has already been a very un-versatile platform, considering it has absolutely no target to use its Anit-Ship-Missles on in the new Map-Rotation for Top tier. And neither does it have any guided weapons. But if the ship missles are considered as a Gimmick, they are something.
This Tornado doesn’t even have such functionality and therefore only brings the airframe in the pack - not the weapon versatility. This is quite different from the SU-25K and the SU-39. Both are attackers that live and die by their loadout and ability to inflict damage on the ground. When the SU-25T released, the SU-39 arrived with it. Identical in Loadout, having everything. It arrived at 11.3 (The Tornado ASSTA1 BR). Why can’t this Tornado do the same? Arriving with guided weaponry and even bringing in something new for the entire Tornado Fleet, like the MW1 Cluster Container? It surely will be a gimmick again, but so seem the Anti-Ship Missles to be.
In short, the Tornado WTD61 does not live up to its premium rivals. It is not a fighter, an therefore the airframe is not worth the investment of 70€, but its ground capabilities are supposed to be. These are so reduced though, that it cannot warrant the 70€ price tag either. The SU-39 costs the same, while adding extreme capability to the airframe by its weaponry. It is simply worth the investment. This Tornado in its current state is worth 45-50€, as the Marineflieger is sold at around 33-36€ now.
Question I play on Xbox how can i pre order it ?
havent seen the tornado in store, back in the days it was possible to buy the type 16 with pre-order bonus . i would like to buy the tornado too.
but no menteoning how on xbox?!?
You are still deciding the BR of a Premium aircraft that is, supposedly, identical to an event aircraft that is already in the game? What are you waiting for, the total amount of pre-orders before the launch?
I’d rather pay for a game if game is going to have balanced matchmaking, good enough compressed br’s, more content then same TDM/Domination modes that we have throughout the 11 years, strategically made maps with actual objectives in Air modes etc. Free game that’s milking money through predatory monetization is not free at all. Im not blaming dev team for that they are just doing what are they told to do, I’m blaming people above them.
Let’s just mention that Marineflieger was at 10.7 when it came, why? Well probably because so gaijin can get more money from people who wanted the aircraft but didn’t had time or nerves to grind for it, and was fine option at the time to get it for Gaijin coins if you wanted to grind out rest of the german air. Gaijin probably wanted to put it at 11.0 but were probably told to lower the br so they can get more profit out of it. Same thing is happenin with Su-25BM right now, its extremly cheap and can get 10,0 matches with its R-73’s.
That means they will decide on weaponry too. So I guess patience is our friend.
One thing has to be noted: This happened a couple of times: Preorders were shown 0.3/0.4 BRs lower on the dev server than they had on release. There has been some justified critique for that.
On for example was the SU-25K. It was on the Dev at 9.3 with R.60s. It has to be said that the SU-25 had the identical BR and was raised as well. But this was only done on patch release.
That’s exactly what I hope they will thus address. Technically, the MFG Tornado is capable of mounting AGM-88 HARMs for SEAD missions. As we don’t have those yet, it is not an option. But if they ever arrive, that one should get them.