Yes please. Playing chase the 104 for 10 minutes every game in a subsonic is starting to get a little bit tiring. Give all of them flares and then put them at the appropriate br imo
How else are you gonna fix compression then? Moving BRs up is the same as making the brackets smaller.
BR compression needs to be adressed, the matchmaker times getting worse is a necessary evil
I swear, like half the vehicle issues in this game could be fixed it the BR’s were just decompressed enough.
It’s honestly incredible how many times the problem just loops back to compression as the main issue
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If we and the developers find a solution, there have likely been proposals for a long time. This is a common issue for all games using the Battle Rating system.
The f15A has the instant turn+aoa to deal with an F16C by cutting inside him if the C can’t force a rate, plus low speed flaps. It’s not the most competitive airframe in the game, yes, but the combo of 9M’s and it’s airframe are still too much for 11.3 to be seeing on a constant basis.
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You can tell that I don’t make good use of the HMD by looking at my stats? Did you not see that I have barely even touched the Gripen?
Gaijins way of determining BRs is absolute bullcrap, player stats shouldn’t dictate BRs, BRs should be based on actual vehicle specs, not on how well players do with them
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But why am I even responding, I apparently can’t have a valid opinion on this matter as I don’t have the F-15
Surely it’s impossible to simply notice something without actually having it, I agree
For instance, I don’t have the SU11, therefore I simply must assume it is perfectly fine at it’s current br and would surely suffer it it goes up any higher, I am sure.
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BR decompression by raising the top tier BR and adjusting lower BRs accordingly is the solution, there is no way around that.
Basing BRs on actual vehicle specs instead of player performance would also serve to combat the compression.
I can guarantee that the shitty BR balancing is a bigger problem when it comes to player retention than longer matchmaker times could ever be
Decompression is not a simple matter. We have the F4J(UK) that outperforms 11.0 but is weaker in terms of armament compared to other 11.3 aircraft like the MiG-23. We can’t do much create the gaps for these cases.
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and the US F4s
It literally is that simple. If the top BR wasn’t 12.7, but let’s say 15.0 instead, we would have much more room to adjust lower BRs and to better group similar vehicles
tonado f3, f4j too
And there will be aircraft that struggle to find suitable matches due to their distinct Battle Ratings.
As I’ve already said, that is a necessary evil.
there is no real possibility where every plane in the game is competitive. The best that can be tried for is common sense changes that allow most planes in most brs to perform well at the expense of some
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Yeah, the simplest solution might be to abandon the concept of historical accuracy, allowing every aircraft to access what it needs to compete. That could be the best approach.
If you take out the fact that everyone here is pretending to dispense one of the most anticipated planes of all time in War Thunder, then i take it as a fair argument.
Planes in general are OP on BR until 8.3 when we finally get the first vehicles with radar and they make such a joke. This is a mockery. Why do they keep pissing off players instead of focusing on improving the gameplay?
To a certain extent, yea. I’d honestly be fine with things like giving every 8.7 and above plane some basic flares simply because clearly they will never see planes with subpar flight perf and non-broken ir missiles for the br at this point
Just make the battle rating Matchmaker only use a 0.7 +/- (not the current 1.0+/-) Search spread past the 8.0 Battle rating, I don’t understand how that would be that difficult.to implement, problem solved!!!
Tech gap wouldn’t be huge and the games would be very even.
I search all servers in Aus except CIS. and I find games in like 10 sec or less… Wait 30 I would be fine.
Especially at top tier say br 10.0 to 12.7 a 0.7 br Matchmaker would make zero difference to game time with the amount of users on.
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