IIRC they said not Early 2026 so I assume late 2026 as there’s still stuff they wanna add before 5th gen.
Didn’t even think about that, but yep, total BS
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Oh absolutely, the early Harriers are in a terrible spot and thats really annoying because they’re cool as hell. I just want the FA.2 to be more accessible than it currently is.
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Great now everyone’s rank 7 premiums are completely useless for grinding now.
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Man I’m so grateful that F-15 is the same BR as a Russian MiG-29A now I can really feel like Iraqi pilot going against a US air force with god tier R60 missile
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Even some 4th gens barely work like the F14, and AMRAAMs arent correct in any way at all despite blatantly obvious documents and bug reports, and im sure stealth needs no introcution with the F-117 and commanche being the worst airacft to use at their BR because stealth just, doesnt work, but yeah, lets add completely classified mystery aircraft where all of their “realism” is left to how gaijin feels because that should be top priority!
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Bro gaijin really said let the mig 29 players rot in hell
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F15s are ruining the sim experience, the mig 29A needs the r73s asap, there are so many planes with irccm missiles at that br now
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Would you kindly do something else? Other than adding more and more of russian wet dreams?
Like, I dont know, new game modes that are not clusterf…s in the middle of the map?
But F-15 Alphas fighting MiG-29s with restricted weapons is not a US wet dream?
Like the F-15A, they have their full weapons capability, and MiG-29s have almost the same capability as Iraqi MiG-29s when they were fighting Americans. Like, I’m sorry I may be biased for Russia, but that sounds like a US wet dream to me.
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I understand the BR reasons, but could the American F-14 and F/A-18 early folders be switched around? It makes more sense from the “technical progression” that airframe development had in real life.
Also, can we expect RP/SL cost reductions and refunds for aircraft (and their respective modules) moved from Rank 8 to Rank 7 that are already researched?
The Ghost of Sharkey Ward and the spirit of Paul “Tremors” strikes again!
Pepperidge Farm still remembers when War Thunder was about some sort of resemblance of technological progression… now it’s just some boring annoying BR game
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Ignoring the Finnish Hornets is actual clown design
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i dont know how we got a superhornet in game before F14D
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Thats is simply not true and never was. Thats part of the reason of the review bomb back then.
Gaijin almost never reduces RP cost , only increase without an proportional increase in earnings. Which leads to u play 500 games to get rank 8 and then another 500 games to get rank 9. (Fictual numbers)
And as many said already gaijin only introduce new ranks to make people pay up. There is no ingame economical reason to do ranks at all cause matchmakes only uses BR.
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They have done it every single time a new top rank is introduced. Or are sabres still 300+ k RP to research?
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Rank IX - OK, but what about the premium vehicles of the seventh rank that were purchased by players for ~€35-70 with the intention of researching the entire tech tree without experience penalties? Will premium vehicles of the seventh rank purchased before these changes were announced still have this option? When paying for these vehicles, there was no information that their key properties had an expiration date ;)…
Even Gaijin understands giving the Tomcat a little modernization makes it better than the Superbug :)
They can swap it around. Put the F-14A in 12.3 and the F-18A in 12.7. I am very sure the F-18 even have an better radar then the F-14
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you do realize that Rank 8 premium aircraft can research rank 9 right ? it’s always +1 rank when it comes to research