Playing Air RB around 8.0 is absolute pain at the moment as you get uptiered constantly. The jump in combat capabilities between 8.0 and above 9.0 jets is insane.
Out of my last 150 battles, ranging from 7.3 to 8.7, I got the following stats:
19 battles were full down-tiers
31 battles were uptiers by 0.3/0.4
51 battles were uptiers by 0.7
49 battles were full uptiers
I’m very much fine with getting uptiers now and then, but at times going 20+ battles without ever being the top tier vehicle is simply too much. Some vehicles also live or die by their matchmaking. I can, for example, deal with 9.0’s in a Meteor, but seeing 9.7’s or 9.3’s in a Swift throws any advantage the vehicle has out the window.
I do also understand that this is due to the recent BR changes of top tier jets, but if that is all that’s needed to make a whole BR bracket miserable, I would argue that there is something inherently wrong with the current matchmaker.
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trying to spade meteors when sabres which are near 150kph faster than you and at the same BR is hell. its unbalanced AF
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The jump at 9.0 is just as bad unfortunately, if not worse. You go from subsonics and the occasional maybe transonic, to full supersonics at 10.0 which leave you in the dust and you never catch up in the fight.
The whole range needs decompression, everything needs decompression. Ugh.
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To be fair, the swift is even worse than some 8.0’s and 8.3’s
I don’t know about F.7 but, F.1 is really decent plane at 8.3 lmao.
I have no idea what the hell are you talking about.
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The difference between 9.0 and 9.3 is absolutely wild compared to even the difference between 8.3 and 9.0. Hell, even some of the 9.3 aircraft see such an absurd gap in performance at the SAME BR. (J32B, MiG-19) Hopefully, since we have the decompression, the 9.3 and 9.7 menaces get moved up out of the way of the korean war aircraft.
I hope it looks like this:
F-104A: 9.3 → 10.0, add AIM-9E. Should not be bullying anything subsonic. Only way to realisticaly kill the rocket pencil is with a strong AAM.
MiG-19(both), J-6A: 9.3 → 9.7. It is pretty hard to touch, but in my experience, it is not that good in the scheme of Air RB.
MiG-21F-13, J-7II: 9.3 → 9.7. Not quite as good as the other two, mostly because its ability to stay fast is quite limited, but is still too fast to be seeing sabres and F9Fs.
MiG-21S: 9.7 → 10.0 (maybe 10.3?). Much better FM, engine and weapons kit. Moving up so BRs make sense.
A-4N Ayit: 9.3 → 10.0 (10.3?). Budget A-10. Missile trucks genuinely suck to deal with.
F-100(all) 9.3 → 9.7. Quite a lot of firepower, decent speed, overall pretty great for air rb, and not great to fight with a F-86.
F8U-2: 10.0 → 10.7. Get it out of 10.0 holy shit is the spam dreadful.
Su-7(all) 9.3 → 9.7. Flies kinda like MiG-19, also hella fast.
Lightning F(all): 9.3 → 9.7. Too fast.
T-2: 9.7 → 10.0. Bullying machine, will probably still shitstomp everything it sees.
Would add stuff like F-1 (i love this thing) but that isnt exactly relevant atm.
Anyway, yeah 8.0-8.7 have had terrible matchmakers for a long while now. Since they decompressed 10.0-11.3, I think it is time for 8.3-9.7 to see decompression.
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I feel you man, I was flying the Sea Hawk Mk.100 (BR 8.0) a few times and it was only 9.0 uptiers lol. Could only collect kills off of 3rd parties or people who just don’t know I have a pair of AIM-9B