[Discussion] Balance, Bias, Matchmaking and Battle Ratings

everyone except USSR and germany getting 13.0, the battle rating compression and having to fight 13.0 fox 3 planes while not having anything close to that as a germany main makes this game unplayable for me. i spent a few thousand bucks on this, but i won’t because it’s quite obvious that gaijin doesn’t care for it’s whales.

Germany . Is. Fine.
Not meta for the update, yes.
Still 2nd best ground tree, yes.
F4F ICE works fine as a missile boat, yes.
Yall will get some ahistorical nonsense, give it 1-2 updates.

you’re on something stupid.

Its an adequate radar with good missiles and enough speed to be somewhat competitive

Hello, I have a question about the game.
Why does the Leclerc have higher visibility than all other MBTs (except the Merkava), and on what basis is this parameter determined?

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The phantom is far better at top tier than a harrier or J-8, and in a downtier is downright goofy. Its not good, but by no means unusable

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If by “works fine” you mean “is extremely behind the curve regarding competitiveness to its peers”

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Its peers in game are:
Tornado F-3(late)
J-8
All AIM-120 harriers
Among those, it is excellent.
Of course its worse than 13.0s, its a lower BR

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No, its peers are 13.0s because that is what it actually matches with consistently. It is also worse than the Harrier

  1. The harrier also sees 13.0s, same with J-8F
  2. The F-4F KWS/LV ICE is a better plane then any harrier in game. It is faster, better armed, and with at worst an equal radar.
  3. It is worse then 13.0s. That is why it is not a 13.0
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The harrier is slower, with less missiles, and at best equally performing missiles. It is ever so slightly better at turning and can troll with VTOL, but in no way is the 8V8B+ or GR-whatever better. I will say that it deserves 12.3 and not 12.7, but the 11.3s would suffer greatly from more AMRAAMs

Yeah doesnt actually matter, F4F KWS is slow as shit compared to what it faces too but cant turn at all. The harrier can defend itself.

Doesn’t matter. F-4F only gains 2 9Ms. This is not equal to being forced into all 13.0 games while the harrier gets to enjoy luxurious matchmaking at 12.3.

??? Miles apart.

Tbh the harrier is only good at turning for the 6 people who know how to VIFF

No? Even without it’s not bad, with VIFFing (at least against the average player, VIFFing is useless against good players) it’s very good.

Partial (45~ degree) VIFFing is how harriers get their manouverability

AV-8B has good agility to begin with, and is enhanced by VIFFing.

I only have experience fighting the crappy British one, so i had no idea.

You should probably not speak on things you know you are not aware of then.

I was under the impression that the late harriers flew the same as the GR-7, but the B+ is, i agree, better than the ICE. I would hope yo see the ICE to 12.3, and the SU-27SM/F-15C/F-16C/M2K etc… to 13.0

GR.7 is also very agile… It also has the 2nd generation wing type…

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