Battle Rating changes for January 2024 (post feedback)

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Another round of balance changes, another round of senseless nerfs.

T20 should be at 6.0. APCR does not justify 6.3. Ditch the APCR round and keep it at 6.0.

Why is the A6M5 going up again? And the J2M’s and J6K too? Those planes have already been up-tiered a lot, why are you making them even worse? You really want people in J6K’s to fight against jets?

Why is A-36 going down? It’s incredibly strong on that BR, to the point people use it as a fighter more so than an attacker. It should go up, not down.

And France is getting nerfed again. Those vehicles are already up-tiered as they are, they shouldn’t go any further up.

“We’re still going ahead with these as the previous increase in reload speed has significantly bettered their efficiency figures, where these French tanks are 60-70% above the average at their rank”

This is the problem. You need to STOP using efficiency as a measure for balancing vehicles, it’s incredibly misleading. At this point you could genuinely balance vehicles based off popularity (popular vehicles get nerfed, unpopular vehicles get buffed, etc.) and it would honestly be better than what you are doing now.

Stop balancing vehicles around their win/loss ratio.

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I know the difference and so much was written by forum members and just plain ignored. DCA moving to 5 and leaving the huge gap it was created to fill in the first place? Not even an acknowledgement of that from anybody.

How about you plain just stop moving BR anyway? if BR changes are so important and correct then why do you undo them a few months or years later? The stuff you just did you will probably undo next update. Just tired of Gaijin destroying line ups for no real reason,

I dont see that is hard to understand.

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"The Gripen A’s built-in armament consisted of a single Mauser BK 27 27-millimeter cannon, housed in a fairing on the aircraft’s belly, offset to left to the rear of the engine intake. Given the aircraft’s relatively small size, it generally carried guided weapons to ensure maximum combat effectiveness. Possible external stores included:

  • Air-to-air missiles (AAM). The primary AAM was the Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM; the Gripen’s PS-05A radar could guide four of these weapons simultaneously. Swedish AMRAAMs had minor modifications to fit Swedish specifications. Other possible AAM stores included the French Matra Mica; the British Aerospace Sky Flash, built in Sweden as the “Rb-71”; and the Anglo-French MBDA ramjet-powered Meteor BVRAAM or German BGT IRIS-T AAM – IRIS-T being a short-range heat-seeking AAM with “off-boresight” capability. The Flygvapnet would obtain the IRIS-T to replace Swedish-built Sidewinder AAMs, along with the Cobra helmet-mounted sight required by the IRIS-T; the Meteor would follow, being introduced to service in 2016."

But it’s ok to be wrong about something bro :)

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Lmao no char is still going to 8.0 for some dumb reason

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111

Wow these changes still look awful thanks for this

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112

Those are reload buffs mate

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Is there any chance that the type-16(fps) will receive the type-93 shell and move up to 9.7?

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Ah, my bad.
They’re still trash vehicles regardless.

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One of the highlights for me. Thank you!

I, however, would insist to further decompress the ground BRs by expanding their range, as many others have already pointed out.

Arietes are not equivalents to Strv 122s; M1A1 HC is not equivalent to Leopard 2A7V, and IPM1 shouldn’t go into battle against T-80BVMs and T-90Ms.

Top tier decompression via BR range expansion should also, finally, decompress the mid tiers. In the past year, compression has done nothing but to move from one BR bracket to another. We need to expand the BRs so that we may finally decompress ALL the BRs without compressing any others in exchange!

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Replacing one letter is still possible.

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And it’s not going to happen,… you should know it ^^"

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I didnt even think 2S25M can use 3BM60 oh wow.
This thing is so unpopular anyway.
Glad to see Strela moving up, but I think it should get its sensors.
I believe more french tanks should be removed from the list.

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New plane for 500k research points for HMD amd Amraam?

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So do you also think they should lower the T-80BVM to 11.3 because soviet teams are performing bad right now?

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Yes

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It’s clear that Gaijin has forgotten about what they used to be played with by the efficiency of the Italian CL-13 of some players

gaijin, gaijin never changes

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Is there a way to check the current situation of the su-22m3 (USSR squadron jet) ?
Because currently the BR (10.7) that it stands at is quite bad,
Whether that maybe for doing CAS roles or ARB battles.

Like, for CAS roles, it gets Kh-29 and Kh-25, they are yes good AGMs, but it still needs good optics to use them, the current optics on the su-22m3 is misplaced, and has no zoom levels, making the only way to use them, is up and close, making it quite vulnerable to enemy fire.
So, as a long time user of it, I just use unguided bombs and rockets for CAS, and that makes it no better than 10.0 or 9.7 CAS planes.

As for ARB, most of the times you play, the plane is way slower than most planes in its BR (unless we talk about su-25 and A-10), has bad maneuverability compared to them as well as bad weaponry,
R-60 at 10.7 is as good as not being there (I replace my 4 R60 for gun pods, they are more reliable), any flare on the battle, whether near the fired upon plane or not, immediately makes the missile go for it, if you fire at anything more than 1.2km away, and you need to fire upon unsuspecting targets, the missile won’t reach, let’s not talk about the majority of battles which it gets as up-tiers, making it face all-aspect and radar missiles, and sometimes AIM-9M and Magic 2s (with only 12 flares fired in 2s or 4s).

Then, let’s talk about its main role, ground pounding in ARB, since it stands at 10.7, most of the time you get F-4S and its variants, Tornado and its variants, and more, each plane is faster than the SU-22M3 and sometimes with enough bomb load for 2 or 3 bases, making you just either leave at start of the battle, or go for head-ons against enemies.

What would I expect that makes the plane better again, or have 10.7 as a justified br.
the plane having its BR adjusted to 10.0, since its effective upgrade over SU-7 is CCRP and CCIP and more carrying capacity.
Or having better optics (for GRB) and R-60M for Air battles (at least in place of the pylons designated for carrying 1 R60 each).

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So many people complained how it didn’t have APCR, unlike the Jumbo 76 and M4A3 (76), that Gaijin obliged and gave it M93 even though it’s basically meaningless.

But that doesn’t matter. As the older BR changes showed, the T20 is going to 6.3, whether that is with APCR or without it.

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everyone should just make an effort to do really bad with 7.7, or now 8.0 France so they lower them

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So the 29g goes up despite having a near useless rwr, basically zero countermeasures for the br, and zero ground attack options and zero room for improvement via better armament because the r73 which is lackluster as hell? R73 doesn’t warrant a .7 br jump from the 9.12A, .3 I can agree with.

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