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unfortunately that makes sense so instead the me163 will go down to 5.3 next patch, also fuck you :^)
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he-100 is still 1.7 so there is precedent lol
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The BI is one of the aircraft in game that never should have really been added at all.
If you’re buns with ammo conservation, fuel conservation, speed management, and positioning; you’re feeding someone else’s kill counter and bringing statistics down.
If you’re at least some what adequate with any of the previous topics, you’re hell on Earth to the enemy team, and only overwhelming enemy superior or luck can kill you. In my honest opinion, it’s a very gimmicky aircraft.
If you (the BI) are going against aircraft that know what they’re doing, you can’t really do much. It compresses at 720kph and it’s an easy target when compressed, go figure.
But against players that don’t know what they’re doing? Of course the BI will win. It’s the ultimate skill check.
If you brought it to 7.0, it wouldn’t do very well because even players in jets that don’t really know what they’re doing and their idea of evading is to run away defeats the BI (again, compression speed and top speed). It would be relegated to the unenviable playstyle of 3rd partying in most instances. If you brought it down to 6.3, first off why, and second off it would do too well because of the constant downtiers to 5.3 (poor bastards).
Against jets, it’s a rat plane for 3rd partiers because elsewise the BI can’t catch up to any of the jets it’d face (even the coughing baby He-162 is faster than it). It really never should have been added, and that’s coming from someone who has it.
But because people have wasted time (or more likely, money), maybe as a way to balance it, they make it realistic in the same way that a realistic Me 163 would fly. It would have two options: 100% (on) or 0% (off) and any damage to fuel tanks will cause total loss of the aircraft/pilot due to the incredibly damaging nature of their fuel.
But again, it’s one of the aircraft that never should have been added because of the pendulum. It’s either too lethal in a downtier or too reliant in an uptier.
At 7.0 it’s still unkillable and can roflstomp people during climb phase. It would not be weak. It’s a team game, and BI denies the enemy team any chance of dogfighting or energy climbing. You either stay fast or you die.
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The whole game mode of Squadron Battles at this BR revolves around BI being OP.
Big money are circulating there so no one is going to disrupt a goose laying golden eggs.
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Yet another reason the warthunder esports scene is taken seriously by literally no one.
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Gaijin should REALLY stop putting the BI in these event SL crates.
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Yesterday I fought 3 BIs in one match. Of course we lost. There was 1 BI in the other. Thing seems to get more common. But if I ever get it, I’ll just sell it.
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Looks like a lot of player are annoyed -
107 likes (so far) for the latest BR increase request:
Edit:
I found a 2nd post regarding the BI (8 likes so far):
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You want to bring the BI aircraft to BR 7.3… it is still too low, it must be at least at BR 8.0, the same BR as the Me 163
Mhm - this is not how BR adjustments work.
BR changes with more than 1 step are extremely rare and usually connected to buffs or nerfs of the aircraft. The last 2 BR step change i remember was the Re 2005 going down from 6.0 to 5.3 in parallel to a massive engine power / turn time nerf - 5 or 6 years ago.
A technical BR increase of 2 steps (without changes of the aircraft itself) was a few years ago as an intern mixed up the JP premium 109 E-7 with the German TT 109 E-3 and reduced the BR from 3.0 to 2.3 by accident - and it took ages until gaijin acknowledged their mistake and corrected this.
So if the BI sits currently at 6.7 a request for a BR of 7.3 was technically an equivalent to a heavy insult as it basically just states that the current BR is flat wrong and they have no clue what they are doing. Asking for a BR of 8.0 would be the same as claiming that gaijin would have hired exclusively retarded morons for their BR setting process as they are 4 steps away from reality.
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Yes! Bravo! You’ve hit the point! 🎉🎉🎉
To clarify, what you wrote is simply true
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