A: According to our data, the balance at the top ranks of ground battles is noticeably shifted towards aviation and helicopters, and this balance has become even worse with the introduction of top aircraft this year. The situation where aircraft can attack tanks from a safe distance with impunity makes gameplay more boring for aviation and less fair for ground vehicles, a similar situation is with helicopters equipped with long-range fast ATGMs, or “fire-and-forget” ATGMs. The most important acknowledgement from gaijin in this entire post… Increase the spawn costs simple.
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This entire answer is criminal. People have only floated the idea of the R-73M, no one has demanded it. I think we’d all prefer the R-73 was just fixed in the first place.
IF we read really carefully, what you’re saying about the R-77-1 is that it’s energy doesn’t really differ much from the R-77 in game. You neglect to mention the rest of the aerodynamic effects. Are you telling us that you’ve modelled the entire missile and it really isn’t as good as we all think? Do you have “sekrit dokuments” to prove this? (jk)
If we aren’t getting R-77-1 or R-73M anytime soon, then please fix the flight models of the Flankers, fix the gyro and tracking issues of the R-73, and buff it’s IRCCM a little bit more too please.
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It actually isn’t subpar. It beats both the Su-27 and MiG-29 in Air Sim.
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And perhaps even introduce tankls only game modes even if only for limited time, to see player feeedback.
I hope they fix the Viggen RWR and flight model along with the MiG-29s and Su-27s FM.
Soviet/Russian Top tier aircraft have have below average flight models, worse radar, worse ARH missiles, less countermeasures, and often worse RWR. They are handily beaten in Air RB, let alone when taking Air Sim into account. Personally I think that reducing the energy bleed on the MiG 29 and SU 27 series, and reducing supersonic drag for the R77, would make things much more bearable.
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You don’t say? It’s not as if this has been an issue for over a year now. You guys really need to expedite your addition of better SAM systems. In the meantime, INCREASE THE SPAWN COST FOR AIRCRAFT TO HELP GROUND FORCES!!! You guys need to fix this issue ASAP because playing against Russia is miserable, just ask the American players…
Honestly, you just said a bunch of mumbo-jumbo.
You comments are ONLY true WHEN comparing Russia to the US. In ANY other way against ANY other tree, Russia does better and has more jets. Please spare me the Russia suffers, sincerely a German player.
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su33 take it or leave it lmao
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Gaijin is not good at balancing the game, they should hire me, i can help you balance the top tier RB. The first i do is remove pantisr. The second thing i will do is adding the secret sauce called premium AGM for CAS players. Easy money
Will you use SPAA in ARB??
Higher chance of it being a Eurofighter because of leaks and all…
Germany suffers at top tier too. We don’t need to be in a suffering contest to acknowledge that both are suffering.
I honestly wonder who formatted the question to him, and how the answer was even parsed during translation. There has to be a more nuanced answer about the R-77 that we just didn’t get. Yes we all know the energy values of the R-77 and R-77-1 are virtually the same, they are not same in composition or drag values etc.
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the worst thing in all this is their writing about filling gaps and in fact now with every update they forget about Ground what’s worse with the recent trend it will probably be filling them by spamming copy paste
I don’t want a tank only mode, i want them to balance the cas aspect like they have in the mid tiers, fighting cas and having cas is necessary to keep the game dynamic. If they was to add a tank only mode the focus on improving spaa would become even more forgotten as it’d no longer be needed. Cas should be a high risk high reward vehicle that you earn. Currently they’re given out like candy in top tier and are far far far more powerful than any ground counter currently available, until gaijin add vehicles to balance this problem out they should increase the spawn costs so it’s not as frequent of a problem.
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@UnknownDistance
Fuel equalized to the same amount of reheat time.
Apparently this is slightly incorrect as Su-27 has more fuel time than the other two on minimum fuel still:
Higher fuel load:
In flight performance: Su-27 wins against both Mig-29SMT and F-15E, and Mig-29SMT barely wins against F-15E.
The primary downside of Su-27SM is no narrow search function.
Russia is in no way struggling in top tier air, in any way shape or form.
There was no contest. All of these statements are ONLY true when compared to a SINGLE tree, that is ahead of every other tree.
Considering how trash the F-4F ICE is, it’s clear you don’t play top tier air RB, lol.
No. But balancing the A2A armament of planes base on ground mode performance is not valid.
And while US planes get the AGM65, which is indeed inferior to the 38MT, they also carry more ordinance in total and carry better ARMs in a higher quantity with a full ground loadout. That’s the primary balancing factor as it stands. If SPAA is buffed to compensate for the KH38MT, how do you then make the KH38MT carriers competitive?
I have the entire German Air Tree, lol.
And you have now proved my point. Germany doesn’t have a “top tier”, and hasn’t since 2ish years ago when the Mig29G was added and then dead on the next update due to…F15/16/Su27 upgrades.
I do own and use the F4F, it is complete and utter dogs**t.
The only other option is the Mig29G, which has no ARHs, horrible fuel limit, bad radar, 6 hardpoints (compared to 8-10 on US/RUS jets)…anything else you want me to add?*
So please tell me why you think Russia would need: more planes, or buffs?
I never said it wasn’t? Every Tier VIII Russian plane is better than the ICE, LOL
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