Compression, compression, and more compression (when did we go so wrong)

If they didn’t have an ahistorical AIM-7F ‘with seeker which acts like Inverse monopulse one’ thanks to silly ‘for balancing’, and ‘everyone will dislike the change’ thing. :/

Compared to the original AIM-7E-2 and AIM-7F(Which acts like an in-game counterpart of Skyflash)
our domestic Skyflash’s good point was ‘New seeker from Marconi, which works better on low-alt’ I guess.

Which got completely ignored.

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If you actually read any of the suggestions they fall into one of 3 categories

  1. The vehicle is much weaker than its contemporaries (F-4J(UK) vs F-4S/F-4J(US) and needs to be a lower BR
  2. It has a stupid battle rating within Air Sim (Hunter FGA9 being at 9.7, same BR as the Hunter F58 and 0.7 higher than the Hunter F6 (France) or the Sea Harrier FRS1 (SQV) being 11.3 same BR as the Mig-23MLD)
  3. It has major issues Gaijin refuses to address (Such as the Challenger 2s or Hunter F6/Harrier Gr1 with the SRAAM)

A LOT of the vehicles I suggested were also suggested by other people as well. I just happened to be at the top of the thread.

But they arent all Britain. AMX A-1A and A26C BRs are in there too and I’ve also got a suggestion in for new Sim Brackets which would fix a number of issues I have with mulitple aircraft without the need for any BR change Tornado Gr4 (which I didnt put a suggestion in for) and the Harrier Gr7 (which I did) are 12.3 in SB, but there is no 12.3 SB Bracket, so you only play against 12.7s which sucks. Same with the Tornado F3 Late at 13.3, you only ever fight 14.0s

I agree, the game needs to be decompressed further, but even with decompression, im sure the same vehicles would fall through the cracks and end up right back where we started. They consider the 0.3 BR increase in GRB a “Decompression” and it changed absolutely nothing for any British Tank, if anything, it actually made it slightly worse. But a lot of my suggestions wouldnt increase compression, they would fix balance issues.

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The easiest solution is to change the matchmaking from 1.0 above or below to 0.7 above or below. They should at least test this for a week to see how it goes. We have been suggesting this for years now.

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So sad brits have been nerfed on many things since Anton was still focusing here. Can still recall quite a bit of his thoughts

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Flagging system about to piss me off, PM the original post plz.

It annoys me that everyone talks about decompression in abstract terms.

How come the community hasn’t lobbied for a
0-15 BR spread for ground, a 0-20 br spread for the air, and then simply let the typical battle rating selection system sort itself from the bottom up.

Or… starting at the bottom move every vehicle up 0.3BR up until Rank V, and every rank V+ vehicle up 0.7 of a BR and then let the battleratings consolidate back down

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People are dumb and don’t know what decompression means.

They just lobby to downtier their most played vehicles and uptier other vehicles to make theirs fit into a more favourable matchmaking.

And because of that, we sit here with extremely compressed BRs when top tier should be at least 14.7

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Gotta love when discussion regarding compression gets flagged. My post on the BR thread also got flagged for being inappropriate…