Do you ever need speed in a tu4?
Are you ever fast enough to run away in a 117?
F-117 can’t outspeed a vampire at all, many 8.0 can reach F-117, even more if F-117 hasn’t dropped its payload and adding that if he tries to dogfight or any kind of dodge maneuver it bleeds speed because is Delta in essence.
I’d say even F-80, MiG-9 and Su-9/11 can reach F-117.
Surely when F-117 has dropped his payload it can outrun every 7.0 but what a F-117 be doin after drop bombs? become the missile and die trying it.
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if an F-117 gets near a B-29 or TU-4 what a F-117 do? it has no guns plus anything near to those bombers are prompt to be oblitarated. So, what would be the reason of a F-117 to approach to an enemy B-29 or TU-4?
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He can drop paveways on em, or rather he could if paveways weren’t broken.
Would it be crazy to say that maybe F-117 shouldn’t be available in air battles?
Its anticlimatic already, so why not… :/
The F-117 is completely useless right now, sure it can be hard to lock but people have their own tracking system (eyes). No countermeasures, no gun, small bombload, subsonic, I’d support moving it down to 8.0
The issue though… Bar the small bomb load… We have aircraft like the B57, Canberra and Buc S1 at 8.3/8.7 in the same boat
F-117 is faster than the Canberra and B57 at least
Yet infinitely smaller bomb load, which is all that really matters in early jet bombers
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But does a BR change fix that at all?
Being 8.0 wouldn’t change that.
Better solution:
Step 1) change how GBUs interact with bases. Increasing their value for everything in ARB but in particular making sure the bare minimum is that the F-117 can do something meaningful with it’s bomb load
Step 2) decompress 7.0-10.0. it’s not just the F117, nearly everything is struggling at the moment, the compression is insane. Buc S2 for example should not be the same BR as F104s, Mig21s etc.
Step 3) restore airspawn to a number of bombers that lost it for “reasons” it’s not just the F-117, Buc S1 for example would also really benefit from airspawn.
Step 4) Overhaul the A2A side of ARB like removing markers or add an RB EC gamemode for that, giving a fundamentally better experience for all ground attackers and not just the F117.
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Changing the br would make it harder for early jets to chase it, and there would be less missiles to dodge. Where the F-117 is right now, it is pretty much unusable. The bombs should at least do a lot more damage to bases if it stays where it is right now
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don’t forget the Vautour at 9.0 with no flares, that thing got murdered by losing its air spawn
Yeah, none of the 8.7-9.3 bombers are in a healthy state at the moment