[Air RB] Response to the October 2024 Battle Rating Changes

[Blanchboi]

Here is what I will be responding to in context:

Planned Battle Rating Changes for October 2024

[USA_Ship2] Hello everyone! Today, we’d like to introduce you to another round of planned Battle Rating Changes. We’ve planned a number of changes to the current Battle Ratings for ground vehicles, aircraft, and naval vehicles. Among other changes, we’re also increasing the maximum Battle Rating of ground vehicles to 12.0. Click here to see the table of planned changes In order to properly and efficiently take on board your feedback, we’ll consider one vehicle change / request per comment i…

What I am going to discuss here is decompressing top tier from 13.7 to 14.0. Since it is a 0.3 step, it should not be terribly hard to do. As a result, I would like to group certain planes together to represent the 13.0 to 14.0.

Firstly, let’s address the elephant in the room - 13.0 is a weird BR. The F-16As are leaving it, and the Su-27 and J-11 are joining it. This has the exact OPPOSITE intention of decompression - we are now compressing 12.0 again.

The solution to this recompression problem is NOT to move planes down in BR. Rather we should be moving the ceiling up to 14.0. Here are my proposals for this decompression.

12.7:

• F-14A Early
• F-16A
• F-20A
• MiG-29 9.12A (Germany)
• MiG-29 9.12B (Italy)
• MiG-29 9.13

13.0:

• F-16A ADF
• F-14B
• F-14A IRIAF (USA)
• F-16A ADF (Italy)
• F-16AJ
• F-16A MLU (Taiwan)
• Netz

13.3:

• F-15A
• AV-8B Plus
• MiG-29G
• Su-27
• AV-8B Plus (Italy)
• Mirage 4000
• F-16A (France) (could also maybe fit 13.0, more decompression is necessary)
• J-11
• JAS 39A
• F-15A Baz

13.7:

• MiG-29SMT
• F-4F ICE

14.0:

• F-16CM Block 50
• F-15C MSIP-II
• Su-27SM
• JAS 39C (Britain)
• F-15J(M)
• J-10A
• J-11A
• JAS 39C (Italy)
• Mirage 2000-5F
• F-16AM (France)
• JAS 39C
• F-16C Block 40 Barak II
• F-15C Baz Meshupar
• F-16D Block 40 Barak II

This spread that I have laid out not only helps 12.0 remain relatively decompressed, it also creates more room for better top tier decompression. Please consider this path instead of compressing high tier jets again.

Instead of compressing BRs at top tier, we should be doing gradual decompression to address certain issues.

[FriesingCold]

Erm, you have to reply with individual vehicles and the reasoning behind why they should change it to what you’re suggesting. 🤓🤓🤓

[Miraz05]

F-14B was fine at 12.7. AIM-54C/AIM-7M isn’t as good as AIM120

[Blanchboi]

Yeah I saw that lol

I decided it would probably just be best to leave a comment like this post and then create a separate thread since it’s more than one vehicle

[SidewaysCube946]

The J-11A is significantly worse that all other 14.0s in that list, it would be better at 13.7.

[Blanchboi]

That’s fair, I was just keeping everything in line with how they are currently, just moved up 0.3

[WalletWorrier]

I think this is reasonable though I disagree with the MiG-29G’s placement- flight performance is subpar, radar is pretty terrible, and R-73s can’t hold a candle to AIM-9Ms.
I’d have, under this system, all MiG-29s except the SMT at 13.0, with R-73s but no R-27Es.

I made a topic a bit ago talking about how I’d change top tier aircraft (it doesn’t include 14.0 though)

More capable and historically accurate weapons for Rank VIII aircraft, and corresponding BR changes

Over the past couple years, Gaijin has added many top tier aircraft with limited armament for balancing. This is reasonable, but it is high time these aircraft receive their historically accurate armaments, as those weapons are now widespread in-game. Additionally, despite recent decompression 4th gen aircraft regularly fight 3rd gens. Moving these aircraft up will alleviate this issue, while pairing such a change with an armament buff will ensure that the 4th gens don’t struggle too much when …

Also where’s the Tornado and J-8?

[Ub3rshadow]

It’s a weird change from Gaijin. They made great progress towards decompression by raising the ceiling to 13.7, and instead of riding that high they’re essentially rolling back part of those changes. I really hope they decide to move the ceiling to 14.0 and move all the powerful fox3-capable jets up 0.3BR each instead of moving some potent 4th gens back down.