Decompressing Battle Ratings for Top Aircraft and Accompanying Changes to Stock Weapons

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Good thought but many issues

  • The F-104s should not go up period. They’re awful aircraft only capable of running away and hoping the enemy doesn’t have SARH missiles.
  • The F-4C should be 10.3 and not 10.7. No flares.
  • The F-4F early should be 10.7, why is it the same BR as the F-4F that’s identical except with flares??
  • The MiG-23s should not go up in light of the huge MTI nerf they recently received.
  • The currently 11.3 F-4s should go to 11.7 and not 12.0, they really shouldn’t be fighting 4th gens. Similarly with the EJ Kai to 12.0 and not 12.7.
  • The F-15s all need 13.3, they’ve been undertiered because of US main skill issue for long enough.
  • French F-16A should be 13.3 or lose AIM-9M. Having it be the same BR as the rest with IRCCM is ridiculous.

The new stock weapons are HUGE! Amazing change!

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It get 2 Aim 7 stock too now.
But still, it should be 12.3 at most. Especially since the Mirage 2000C-S5 is 12.3 now.

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agreed

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Tornado F.3 Late is not a 13.3 vessel…
No matter how flattering it is, it is not equivalent to the MiG-29SMT.
The same can be said for the F-4F KWS LV.
Mirage4000 is…
Looks like it’s no good…

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Just 13.7 29SMT.

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The role does not change, the balance is based on armament, and not on flight characteristics

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The soviet radars have worse refresh rate meaning trying to aquire or re aquire a lock takes far longer than the western radars, cassegrain radars are bad and you can definelty notice it when you’re fighting an F-16 or F-15 they’ll always be able to get a missile a good 4 seconds ealier than you if you’re both staring at eachover

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Now would be a GREAT time to banish the F104A/C to something that ISN’T 9.3 thanks.

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The AV-8B can only carry 6 missiles (you can trade 2 AIM-9M out for 2 AIM-120), the F-4F ICE can carry 8 (4 AIM-9L/I and 4 AIM-120) and has better flight performance. No reason for them to have the same BR.

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Faster aircraft means more range on the missiles, an easier time climbing, etc. but I think the AV-8B will have the advantage in a turn fight? So them being quite close in BR but not the same would be okay in my eyes

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Could also be a decent time to rebalance some of the vehicles in rough/weird spots. Make the F-4C into the F-4D (just change the name and give it countermeasures), give the F-14A AIM-9Ls and the F-14B AIM-9Ms and move them both up even more, remove AIM-9Ms from the F-15A to make it less oppressive to its peers and more in-line with the early F-16s, give R-73s to the MiG-29 (9-13) and Yak-141 while removing their R-27ERs and bumping them up by another 0.3 BR, make the Su-27SM into the Su-27SM3 with the stronger engines and another pair of pylons, give the J-11A PL-12s and a usable RWR, etc.

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It’s not even close to F16C and F15C’s performance

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It way better than 13.3 planes perfomance.

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Have you tried playing it? It is waaay slower and because of this it has shorter range of missiles

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Это ты несёшь - все радары +/- одинаково видят и одинаково глючат (лочат землю, пустоты, ракеты) По сути в игре только 2 радара типа “советский” и типа “западный” у которых у всех одинаковая дальность, углы, итд. Пара уникальных есть, вроде того-же миража, но суть не меняется - все радары в игре это плейсхолдеры не имеющие ничего общего с реальными радарами.

All radars +/- are advancing and are equally glitchy (locking the ground, empty space, missiles) In fact, in the game there are only 2 radars, the “Soviet” type and the “Western” type, which all have the same range, angles, etc. There are a couple of unique ones, like the french Marage, but the essence does not change - all the radars in the game are placeholders and have nothing in common with IRL radars.

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Flares would also make it playable.

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That is, an aircraft with an Aim-120 with a combat rating of 13.0, where the aircraft are armed only with short-range and medium-range missiles, will be a fair decision for you?

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It’s a good 13.3, HORRIBLE 13.7.

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Gaijin really commiting to this out-of-season April Fools joke. Everyone knows Gaijin doesn’t decompress.

For serious though, a few oddballs here and ther, but overall positive changes. I just wish The changes extended down to a certain set of F-104s that should be closer to 10.4 as far as I’m concerned.

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Best 13.3 and near to fine 13.7.