Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25467429-20141203204130/@comment-25467429-20141203215744

Totally didn't even bother looking for a trailer. So yes, they did add a co-op mission like I expected, still have to wait to see if it's also the OEL. A little bit surprised the CFA/QFA-44 wasn't added. Not sure what more they'd be waiting for there. Thoguht there was a shot on the X-02, Faklen, Delphinius, but always knew that wasn't especially likely. Rena is almost certainly a tournament prize (I might go for that to make up for not going for 13). Maybe they wanted to get this out before the CFA/QFA-44 seeing as how it's essentially an upgraded and remodeled Terminator, and Camilla's connection to 3. Thought there were still a few non-Delphinius surprises they could add from 3, so that covers that bet. Still have to see the monthly drop, so I'll still content that it's the Christmas A-10.

I'm thrilled about the FB-22. Forgot to add it to my o.p, but I've been preparing for it for a while in hopes they'd be adding. I imagine it'll have the SOD, but the rest of its weapons will be interesting (SOD, LAGM, 4AGM, not necessarily in that order, would make sense I suppose). X-29 could be interesting too.

Not sure about the bombers. Pipeline, Weapon Base, and Moscow are the likely most popular missions for it, and almost certainly will be a major early option for the next Naval TDM. But, in TDM it will either be a damage sponge (somewhat similar to the carrier) or be a feast for anyone in a fighter. The video shows some questionable scaling, however. Hard to fully tell, but it looks like they made the two planes consdieratble smaller than they should have to match the scale of the fighters and environment. Also have to wonder how they'll handle the weapons scheme. What they might do is add a part upgrade, sort of like the Fire Extinguisher, that allows the bombers to use chaffe or flares, if not make chaffe and flares their Sp. weapons. It's not hard to imagine future updates will add the B-52, Tu-160, and Tu-95.

That they went ahead and added bombers makes one wonder if they're thinking about adding the helicopters too in a later update. Whereas there already exists some possible utility for the bombers, I can't imagine the helicopter being too useful in most missins they have right now. It seems to me it would be too awkward, thoguh I could see a helicopter working reasonably well in the Moscow mission.