But that is what you are arguing though. You are saying the US shouldnt receive anything until everyone else is at the same level. I agree with the catching up portion, but not at the expense of. Effectively, that no equal improvments should be made to US vehicles until placeholders or voids in other nations are fixed. Im saying both can happen at the same time.
If Gaijin is able to implement an AESA in a top tier French aircraft and a Russian helicopter, why not give at least one of the two US airframes as well? If the EFT model in game should have one, give it to them as well. Not specifing what production variant of either aircraft has absolutely shot them in the foot from a “if this, then that” perspective. Whose to say what is currently in the F-15C MSIP and F-15E isnt a placeholder for tech that could come? If the content being made by players and content creators (big and small) is any indication, the EFT and company certainly arent struggling with their supposed placeholders.
But telling US players, who are the probably the bread and butter of this game’s monetization, they shouldn’t look forward to anything because Gaijin show backburn any newer or improved US vehicles/tech because other nations didn’t produce nearly the same amount or update as frequently is a terrible take. Full stop. Especially when a majority of US players are not here arguing minor nations shouldnt get what they can get. Give Russia an Su-30SM. Give Japan its F-2. They should get them. But don’t expect US mains to just be chill with nothing for a few updates, especially when additions like the F/A-18 wouldn’t have put the US above the EFT meta wise. It would have been absolutely no different than adding the Su-33 like they did.
You seem to be missing my entire point which is development time, they can “just” do anything, everything they do takes time and some things are more important that others, I’m sure they will add stuff for the US but for the first half of the year which is only two patches and usually only one major air update I don’t think an improved F-15C/E should be the thing, if that’s what you got for the first 6 months I think you’d even be upset, I would rather imagine that the F/A-18 comes which again limited dev time isn’t just simply as well as a better F-15, an F/A-18 would also be better financially given that it would provide renewed interest for people to grind the US tree. I can also see them adding a new premium aircraft to the US tree alongside an actual new airframe which again brings in a lot of money
Like the top tier US vehicles added in the first half of this year were F-15C, AV-8B, and F-20, that is it for the first 6 months, if that’s the amount of stuff the US can get in 6 months then the F/A-18C/E should take two spots and then some premium aircraft to rake in the money from the first two.
And if you think this year was sparse for the US, in the first 6 months of last year the US got the F-14B, F-4S, and A-7K
@Smin1080p_WT Please can you re-open any related bug reports to Rodney’s flooding issue or inform the devs that the fixes that were suppose to come with this update have fixed nothing.
Rodney can still be flooded easily with low calibre HE and any flooding still causes 2 minute reloads in the front guns
Oh, while they’re at it, why don’t the nerf the scharnhorst? It’s only single handedly the best BC in the game.
And also fix the Kronstadt so the first hit doesn’t ammo rack it, and cripple its capabilities to fire back, because I love bringing very low shell counts, and getting totally annihilated right out the gates.
Please fix the perfomance fail which is since several versions, on “mediocre” systems. I have i7-7700HQ, nVidia 1050 and I could always play with 60 fps fluently. YOU HAVE BROKEN THE CODE and now, only 30 fps are playable.
YOU HAVE BROKEN THE CORE CODE OF PERFORMANCE!!
Look into it. I expect a fix soon! I have give 500+ Euros into this game and you just cannot ignore such a severe fail FIX IT!!
They could give US F-16E (made by LM, with US AESA radar and avionics), an F-16V from Greece, Bahrain, or Slovakia, and the USAF F-16C upgraded with AESA radars and new ECM, as well as entire advanced eagle lineage except for the IA (it’s the Israeli one), upgraded F-15E, upgraded F-15C, super hornet block 2, super hornet block 3, F-18C USMC with AESA radar, F-16IN (never used or even tested by india iirc), upgraded F-15K, and F-15SG
All have strong ties to US (if they aren’t USAF/USN/USMC service aircraft) and would provide options for AESA 4th gen before F-15EX
Theres not much reason to be giving the US sub trees when they already have one of, if not the, best air trees in the game. There are perfectly good US options for AESA, I’m personally hoping for F/A-18s for the June update this year
Subtrees? You know they just add vehicles to most relevant nation without it having to be a subtree right? Like Iran F-14
I would also like F-18 asap but there are also options for F-16 and F-15 to get AESA, and id really like for the advanced eagle lineage to be in US tree
Everythijg in list was bought from US anyways so don’t really see the issue, and none are currently in countries or subtrees ingame
Singapore uses a lot of US stuff for their air force, Korea used to be mostly US stuff, they still use their slam eagles but mostly moved to domestic, Greece uses mostly US stuff for air force as well
It’s all LM, Boeing, the countries have defence ties to US, they’re US designed, US built, so why shouldn’t they go to US if they come at all
Like I said though, there is plenty of US stuff for air, sub nations are great for filling gaps in capability, that is why Thailand was added to Japan, they’re also great for filling out nations that are lacking variety, like Hungary, Finland, and Benelux, however for the US air tree they are lacking neither variety nor capability.
I’m not saying it’s not possible but there are domestic US options for AESA so a subtree would just be odd
Yes, many would make solid event squadron or premium vehicles down the line, but for the F-16 line I think a desert falcon would be needed. And id like for an aircraft design lineage (advanced eagles/strike eagle) to be fully present in one tree and not torn apart.
Again, I am not asking for subtrees, just specific relevant vehicles
That ship has already sailed with the F-15C and E being in different trees, I can imagine the EX being under the C with it being the direct replacement, but we’ll see
I can also very much see the F/A-18C/E being split between the Navy and attacker/Marine lines
Strike eagle lineage would go F-15E, in folder F-15K, main tree vehicle after that would be F-15E RMP, foldered under it F-15SG, the for advanced eagle lines, F-15C USAF with AESA, foldered under that F-15SA, then QA, then end of line main tree F-15EX
But why would US made and designed fighters go to different nations, which are not the IRL operator nations, or even have the irl operators as a subtree.
Qatar isn’t in game tree, it’s not a subtree, so logically the Qatari advanced eagle would go to US bc of direct technical and military ties. Same applies to every other advanced eagle and strike eagle I listed (left out the Israeli one for a reason)
I mean Korea very well could be its own tree for starters.
Saudi Arabia is already part of the British tree and Britain have very long-standing ties with the Saudis
Singapore could very well go to Japan or China with the whole ASEAN deal
Qatar I would expect to see as a premium or event vehicle though it could go TT, along with a Qatari Rafale in the French tree and Eurofighter in UK/Germany
Realistically I don’t see them putting 7 F-15Es into the US TT, more likely you get a radar upgraded one and then an EX for 3 TT plus an event/premium one for 4 total, which seems a more reasonable number
If the US does get SK which I doubt it will be a separate line on the TT I imagine
Saudi is not a UK subtree, US has relations with Saudi too, Korea is true but tbh I kinda doubt it, if it doesn’t become a tree slam eagle should go to US though, Singapore might but that doesn’t stop them from adding 1 vehicle of them to US, and yeah Qatar F-15 has nowhere to go but the US lol
I know it isn’t necessarily subtree but there is already a connection there and as far as military relations go, the UK has a very long-standing relationship, particularly with the Royal Saudi Air Force, like aside from the F-15 I believe most Saudi combat aircraft are British historically speaking.
If there are plans for ASEAN countries to be part of another TT then that would be good reason not to put a Singaporean F-15 in the US tree.