F3H should be nerfed to 9.3 or 9.7 immediately

after the recent sparrow update F3H made early jet BRs unplayable, specifically from 8.3 to 9.0
I feel like it is simply unfair for a certain aircraft to have a missile that clearly overperforms against planes that must stick to dogfights to get kills
the only proper missile that people used to face in the BR were Aim 9Bs (or sometimes AA20s but its not that hard to counter most of the times anyway)
This completely broke the matchmaking too, becuase majority of 8.3 or 8.7 matches are 9.0 and there are almost no downtiers. people are now forced to stick close to the ground which makes impossible for people to use their altitude or energy advantage
also this made people think twice before entering dogfights they can clearly win, making other fighters other than US mains to be passive on killing other planes in general making the match either extremely boring or just simply US biased most of the time

If the missile is clearly buffed and F3H already being a decent aircraft at 9.0, how come there were no BR changes afterwards

I think it was a blanket buff for the entire AIM-7 series so I doubt Gaijin spent much time thinking about the potential balance implications of individual aircraft, especially for anything not top tier, they will likely address it in the next balance patch or two.

Eventually people will learn to stop flying in straight lines.

also for whoever still thinks that this is a matter of “skill issue” and “situational awareness” and its clearly balanced

i had 5 kills and 5 deaths (i think, i played this back in the day) when i first started and it was a complete stockgrind
now i have 50 kills and 6 deaths and i genuinely think that this plane is more braindead than mig 25 or even being a spacebar main (bombers)

so i dont think this is a matter of a skill issue and its clearly overperforming to an extent where dogfights are no more possible

You underestimate the dumbness of players.

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