[Discussion] Balance, Bias, Matchmaking and Battle Ratings

I’m remembering why I stopped playing low tier and it’s because heavy players below 5.7 are the most carried people on the planet

You hit a volumetric trap

just my luck

Revert the bomber changes. A PE-8 should not just be able to stay alive after eating a good amount of the fucking GROUND BELT of the Spitfire, the BELT I PUT ON PLANES BECAUSE OF THE BOMBER CHANGES. I got that kill but I’m pretty sure only because I set a fire that took out literally just flaps and a single engine.

I just unlocked Squadron vics A4E early and hunter for CAS. Now they are both going to 10/ 10.3 is it still worth spading them or are they going to be useless as I really CBA spading more dead jets? Is 10.0+ alot sweatier than 9.3 overall?
Never played above BR 9.3 so not sure what AA is waiting.

Its every time lol- I just unlocked the T72 after months of grind and thought I had both line ups sorted, I planned on 9.3 being the highest BR I played.

Everything got moved up, so only br numbers are higher especially for 9.3 so you are expected to see the same type of enemies, only unfortunate for some SPAAs for moved way too high

Plenty cas planes got moved 2 steps up instead of 1 (gepard a2 and co moved only 1 br step up). So a4e is essentially 9.7 if we convert its br to current brs.

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Everything but ruski gets moved. t80 and friends are now in play. I checked the pen menu and it doesn’t look good

I looked at what id use with a4 and there’s no line up now anyway.

German hunter needs to be used at a BR I dont have yet. Il probs just abandon the A4 and try the hunter if I ever get the 2k

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Are you legitimatley saying that any T-80 hasn’t been moved up br ?

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Nah, they’re totally not going up in br

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O look “they’re totally not going up in br”

We need to have a serious talk about Gaijin’s “APS Tax” and how they are not acting in consequence to their own statements… again.

aps tax

Previously, when Gaijin decided that all Merkava Mk.4s should be Top BR along with the very best tanks in the entire game, they justified it by saying that “reasonably, should all have the same Battle Rating”, acknowledging that Mk.4M’s Trophy had no impact on the tanks’ capabilities whatsoever.

However, now that they finally are decompressing Top Tier a bit and they finally realized that the extremely underperforming and mismodelled Merkava Mk.4s have no business sitting at the same BR as the Leopard 2A7s, they are pretending that Mk.4M’s Trophy is enough to justify the tank being TWO (2) BR STEPS HIGHER than the variants without Trophy.

So I’m wondering; what exactly is there about Trophy to justify a barely 12.7 tank being thrown into 13.3 once 13.3 is released for tanks like the 2A7s?

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Who knows, maybe T-80 and friends will be somewhat good now.

I think overall it would be better to move it to 11.0, but lets not pretend that the 80UD is particularly strong at 10.7 currently.

Yeah there’s no point in using logic with the Merkavas, as we’ve seen time and time again gaijin just throws out any evidence or reasoning when it comes to them.

Missing: All the other T-80s that don’t underperform

What other T-80s? There’s only one underperfoming UD not going up.

UD is far from underperforming, it deserves to go up with the 11.0 mbts like m1 or 2a4

Just a little suggestion for balance. How about you make battle rating so they actually fall in same tier of technology? I tried my Bison few times today and i was against ARH missiles pretty much every time…with my 60’s plane and R.27 missiles. It should be pretty easy since you can just separate BR for ground and air. And you artificially already added new ranks. So how about separate ARH missiles to their own ranks so manual folks can fight each other? Or do you really cannon fodder for more expensive premium plane owners?