BRs of many aircraft in the upper tiers of Simulator mode feel illogical and somewhat neglected.
One example is the Netz being lowered to 12.3 and the F-15A being lowered to 12.7. The Netz—essentially an F-16 with Python missiles—has no business being at a lower BR than the F-16A Block 5 and Block 10. They should share the same BR; otherwise, there is little reason to use the latter.
You might ask: why is that such a problem? Let’s look at other aircraft rated at 12.7:
Belgian F-16A Block 15, carrying AIM-9Ms and additional countermeasure pods
F/A-18C Early, carrying six AIM-7Ps (the best Sparrow missile currently in the game) with an excellent radar
F-15J, with arguably the best IR missiles in the game, the AAM-3
There are more examples, but these stand out the most. Even the F/A-18A Early (12.3) is a more formidable aircraft than many 12.7-rated aircraft.
In addition to this questionable BR balancing, REDFOR has no effective answer to some of these strong aircraft:
MiG-29 variants, able to carry only two R-27ER/ETs along with four weak R-60Ms and a subpar radar
Yak-141, also limited to two R-27ER/ETs, only two weak R-60Ms, and a low top speed
Swiss F/A-18C, being the only competitive answer to BLUFOR’s dominance at 12.7
Finally, giving the MiG-29 its long-awaited R-73s but raising the BR to 13.0 almost sounds like a joke. Additionally, bringing the F-15s down to 12.7 feels like rubbing salt in the wound.
I noticed it a little less with older aircraft because the difference in aircraft technology isn’t as big, but you’re right. There needs to be a lot more consistency in actual aircraft ability and technology across the board.
with an increase in br, so… in the end nothing will really change and that’s sad. Lucky me soon it’s my bday, gonna update my pc and prob finally quitting this game for a better sim.
Even with R-73s I’d rather be in a plane that has a digital RWR, a good CM count, and good endurance compared to a Mig-29. In air RB I could see some argument that the 13.0 Mig-29s are on par with the F-15A, but in sim they’re just worse.
Well even without increasing its br, at 12.7 r-73’s won’t make it an op or overperforming aircraft, especially considering the constant uptier due to the current premium spam. Its FM is still a joke and I guess we’ll have to unlock those new fox-2 despite having a spaded aircraft. Total nonsense, not worth the effort at the current state.
This might be correct but that point is incomprehensible to the average poster in the WT Sim subforum. Most posters only play one side of a matchmaker and anything that manages to kill them is “OP”.
Morvran post history in regards to sim and balancing is peak comedy.
I forgot we are in the sim subforum. Well, I spent most of my time in sim flying underdog planes, because everyone wants to play the meta or the so called bluefor, ended up facing multiple enemies in an inferior aircraft (usually something like 9/10 vs 2/3). Mig-29 was “OP” only when just added, right after that… not so special.
Sim is highly unbalanced, from props to jets. The few good planes on the less popular side just received, during the years, an increase in both br and repair cost (and sometimes also a big nerf in performances). That’s why I stopped playing WT for almost 2 years and I’ve reinstalled IL-2 series.
I’d prefer if the mode got a little attention from the devs, instead of giving up and playing a game that’s quite different. I think sim players have put enough money into the game for it to get at least a couple of updates
Then to top it all off, they add the r73 to yak141 - a jet with a much better fm and radar - and keep it at 12.7. Phenomenal…it’s surely too incompetent to be unintentional at this point, they just hate the mig lmao
I’m sorry I have to tell this, but they don’t care, they never did. sim mode always been treated like that and I started playing sim more than 10 years ago.
indeed, gaijin pretty much gave up on sim a couple years after release - left it with a single person to check in with sim development for ages and then even that guy went awol. They say see no one plays sim so we wont develop it > people leave cause sim has no development or maintenance > cycle repeats year after year
that’s a shame and a bad marketing decision. So many players quitted during the years. we could have had the same player base as air rb, a game with so much potential, so many vehicles and they screwed up everything.
Once I’ get a better pc I’ll move away too. I can’t stand anymore this kind of attitude
