20g+ missiles in <10 BR in ARB

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Wow. Just. Wow.

I’ve been playing Tier V aircraft of WT since about 2020s, right around when the F-11F got added. I’ve seen jets getting more and more and more compressed as times go on, so it’s time that I bring up something that’s always irked me.

Missiles that can perform above a 12g overload. In mind, specifically I have a couple of examples:
The R-60 on the Yak-38/38M (9.3)
The AIM-9P on the T-2 (9.7)
The AIM-9G on the Harrier GR.3/AV-8A/C (9.7)
The Shafrir-2/AIM9D on the A-4N Ayit (9.7)
The AIM-4F/G on the F-106 (9.3)
Maybe the SRAAM on the Harrier GR.1 (9.7)

Who in their right mind thought that there were good ideas?

All of these aircraft, if downtiered, have the capability of facing KOREAN WAR aircraft, F-86A/F Sabres, MiG-15/17s, MD.452s, Meteors, Venoms, and all other variations of aircraft, MOST OF WHICH DO NOT RECEIVE FLARES.

In some of their cases, I can see how that’s the only way for them to get kills, such as the Yak-38 being such a miserable aircraft to fly that the only way you can get kills is by sheer luck or by your 30 G overload missiles at 9.3. Sure, they’re flare hungry, and sure they have a short burn time, but those are still 30g missiles and if you fire them at any distance below 2km, they target is cooked.
That’s right. 30g overload missiles available at the BR of 9.3. 4 of them, if memory serves. 4 missiles that nigh impossible to defeat if you don’t have any flares and if they’re fired from a rear aspect.

I understand that there’s one hand that gives and one hand that takes when it comes to balancing BRs, but really, Gaijin? You’re placing 20g+ missile slingers against teams where a majority of aircraft don’t have flares.

The answer?
Maybe if an aircraft isn’t useful at a BR without it’s missiles, it shouldn’t get them and the aircraft should go down in BR.

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BR decompression. We can easily add a full 2 BRs by just decompressing 7.0-10.0, but gaijin is very against that.

Removing missiles does nothing but push planes down in BR and make them less unique, and only widens the gap between them and proper missile carriers.

4 free kills in a downtier (assuming no one ends up on your tail), in exchange for having the single most hopeless jet airframe in the game. If you can prevent it from getting behind you, it’s unable to kill you, especially if it can’t run away.

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You misunderstand though. Decompression actually makes sense, so Gaijin won’t do it.

Remove missiles, decrease BR, compress lowers BR. That’s the Gaijin way.

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Seriously , i want to see what that mode aerial warfare is about…
if it doesn’t cut it i’m done with the crapgame. There are so many good games out there, maybe not with planes … but literally WT has only models, no gameplay.

And i’m telling it because maybe the solution will be there.
They clearly don’t want to balance …random battles. If they wanted it’s so easy…