they have very close military relations nowdays, they are known for doing a lot of military exercises, there is numerous reasons why this is a good decision, mainly being the fact that japan is lacking a consistant lineup due to the low ammount of vehicles, and the other one being that thailand its a direct ally of japan
11.3… perfect to go along with literally no new lineups… here I was thinking Japan might finally get usable CAS for some of it’s lineups.
I would still bring it over some of the 12.0 when I want some down tiers. Plus an f5 with pythons and 9ps is always welcome.
For Air AB/RB perhaps, but I was really hoping to finally get a CAS option for Japan for like BR 8-9-10 where there is still just nothing, why then add a vehicle that does nothing to resolve that problem but to just offer a worse alternative to the one place where they didn’t need CAS options is as disappointing as it’s predictable.
Fair but you weren’t expecting an f5 to be anywhere near 9-10.0 were you?
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I was expecting something of value to be added, for gaps to be filled and not for them to go out of their way to get this thing from Thailand that doesn’t really do that.
The best we could hope for is a f they give the f1 and t2 there anti ship missiles which were tv guided. But considering they still haven’t given the f1 it’s flare dispensers I wouldn’t get your hopes up.
I play Japan, I never had hope to begin with and I still get disappointed, I’m just waiting to see how they are further going to ruin the Type 87, how the Type 89 RCV continues to be a joke at 9.0, how R2Y2s lose it’s airspawn and have their cannons nerfed but somehow went from 6.7 to 8.0, how there is a prop plane at 7.7, how the Ho-Ri get nerfed several times over and went from the fastest to the slowest reversing vehicle and still increased in BR, how the STB-1 evolved into the STB-2 and also lost HEATFS, how we get to grind a 4th version of a vehicle because it got 10mm armor plates, how thermals is a pay to win feature, how Gaijin continues to fail and adapt for the low player count and over tier every vehicle, how all the air premiums are complete garbage and we’re still flying Sabres at 9.0 whilst other nations have guided weapons, bullpups and a plethora of options whilst we finally get a new jet that gets placed out or range of the few lineups we can make.
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Yeah, but I will say the ho ri producation is the best TD in game hands down. I have the Foch, the jag tiger, the tortoise and all the rest but the ho ri has a good reload, great aphe and amazing armour for its br. I love it.
At it’s BR it’s good, the moment you get uptiered to 7.7 or above it’s pointless as the armor is it’s only quality… it used to reverse at like 40km/h and now it’s closer to 4.
It’s not that bad is it? But yeah I remember it being as fast back as it was forward…
It’s armor isn’t that good, nothing is going to struggle with it at higher BRs and then you’re just a stupid large target with low pen and no turret.
And the reverse nerf wouldn’t have been as bad if it wasn’t completely decimated and you’d get like 15 km/h out of it.
I’m fine with the F5E addition. Japan really need a grinder for the top tier jet and the FCU will do nicely.
Right now it’s painful as heck. The F4EJ is barely ok, but it’s one of the worse 11.0 jets. F-1 is a torture to play without countermeasure. T-2 is serviceable but not fun.
The only interesting planes are the F16 and F15 so having a 11.3 plane that’s accessible and with solid/acceptable performance will help tremendously.
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I spaded all of them and they’re all garbage, but the F-5 isn’t going to give you premium rewards anyways, going to take however many months to even unlock without GE and as bad as the F4 is, you can just rush bases with it.
Not arguing that, you’re absolutely right. I’ve been advocating for better game mode in Air RB for years.
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Relax, just another couch potato being ignorant as always. They won’t comprehend what you are saying because they have 0 clue of the context behind the situation lol
The “Italy and Hungary” comparison is not equal in this case tbh. Modern Italians and Hungarians don’t hate each other, but a large part of the Chinese player base especially in a game like this still will have serious resentment toward the Japanese :)
besides A-7 & A37
What your hoping for is mostly this. Which I agree, I hope for the same as well…one day.
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Yeah but “most of the time” doesn’t mean every time. In my experience with the F4EJ, US is very often on the opposite side.
Also I got the F5E FCU now, and just got the Python3.
As I expected, it’s a slow plane for 11.3 BR, but it can be made to work. It’s basically like playing an A6M3 in a 5.0 BR match. Everything is faster, but you can rate fight pretty much everything else until you meet Mirage 2000S and F-16.
It’s a monster in downtier tho. Flight performances of the F5E with 4 missiles that are functionally Aim9L is quite frightening for the 10.3 planes. It has 22+23 countermeasures with Mixed and since it drop them by 1, 22 pop is absolutely enough for most matches.
Also its DM is as busted as ever. I survived 2 gun hits from F-16 in a row and the plane was still fully flyable. Had enough time for an additional kill before the third gun hit killed me.
It’s still a far better experience flying that thing than the F4EJ or the F-1.
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