Another patch, another CN tree nerf. When does this stop?

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So Gaijin just dropped another “adjustment” on J10C, and this time they claim it’s according to the real manual. Cool.I guess that’s where the “realistic” in “realistic competitive battles” comes from-you know, the one they put in their own description: “In War Thunder, aircraft, attack helicopters, ground forces and naval vessels collaborate in realistic competitive battles.”

Let’s see what they did to Chinese techtree recently.

First and most inportant, they SIGNIFICANTLY nerfed PL12 about 60% with zero documented justification. No source, no explanation, just a big nerf.

Then J15T, they mentioned in the pre-dev livestream that they were considering buffing it to 96 small-caliber countermeasures. Never happened. And they could’ve done what they did with MiG-21 SMT—when you mount the ECM pod, it counts as countermeasures. But J15T gets neither. No 96 small-caliber, no pod-as-countermeasure, no large caliber buff. Nothing.
Next is JH-7A2, an updated aircraft that literally debuted in 2022 at BR 12.3 can still only carrying old narrow-band YJ91 but not YJ-91A which was been around since 2007 who has broad-spectrum passive radar seeker. Meanwhile Italy gets Tornado IDS MLU at BR11.7 gets AGM-88A, USSR Su-39 at BR11.3 gets Kh-25MPU and don’t mention the F18A equiped with AGM-88A with a fighter airframe, not an attack aircraft airframe at BR 12.0. A 2022 plane at 12.3 can’t carry its own anti-radiation missile? Make it make sense.
And don’t even get me started on the Rafale or R77-1. Either Rafale current flight model is a massive buff with no basis in reality, or the real Rafale was designed to fly like a UFO; and the R-77-1? It uses grid fins, yet in-game it only has slightly more drag than MICA and PL-12, which use planar fins.

There are so many those kinds of things Gaijin did to most of the techtree (like the newest plane US got is still F18 from 2005) other than USSR, but recently the China tech tree has been taking the biggest hit by far. This is not a bug report. It’s me asking: am I the only one seeing this pattern? Or are we all just used to it by now?

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And mayby when it comes with plane true fact what Gaijin did to China techtree it will be flaged as spam or advertising. Again I repeat that this post is no spam or advertising but just the discribtion of what Gaijin did recently and want everyone disguss what Gaijin did to Chinese techtree and to us.

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Wasn’t it a auto-pilot nerf that made it worse at energy retention or just pull worse?

Poor guy got the Su-33 syndrome

MF, SMT, Bis SAU

The additions of ARMs seems to be based on BRs rather than carrier capability or just plain lazy in the case for F/A-18C and others.

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They change the distance from center mass to stabiliser from 0.3 to 0.12 which is a coefficient significantly affect the mobility of PL12. It used to pull a 30G easilly and now the maximum is lower than 30G for 99.9% of the time. Before the mobility of PL12 is lower than MICA, R77-1, R77 which is a balanced place, and now even AAM4 has better mobility than PL12 in real gameplay. And the PID also influence the guide logic.

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Again like the only thing they might specifically hate about China are the VT4s, everything else here is just the minor nation tax