The Falcon and DCA nerfs won’t change anything about the toxic SPAA meta
Both of those vehicles started out as 8.0 and 8.3 respectively, with their same current stats, and with the start of the initial SPAA meta, were moved to 8.3 and 8.7, compared to their counterparts, they werent and arent that good at their main purpose - dealing with planes, having both slower muzzle velocity and lower damage compared to Oerlikons, additionally, Falcon being considerably sluggish, and the DCA having mid radar, and no stabilizer, but both had one major tradeoff, that being the APDS belt, and now with its removal, theyre going to be bad at killing both tanks and planes, just why? The main problem with SPAA isnt even the APDS but rather the way they just are, ZA-35 is easily a good example of this, it dominates lobbies and has Nuke speedrun records, all with the default ammo belt, and outclassing it the infamous ItPsV, a Leopard 2 based SPAA with 30 hp/t engine, top of the tier Turret rotations speeds at 90°/60°/sec, at battle rating of just 8.7, even with no APDS these vehicles hoard up easy kills thanks to magical shell-teleporting-inside-the-tank mechanic
This balance change is entirely a product of Oerlikons being overpowered, they started this toxic meta, and for some reason theyre not even included in it? Why are two already not-good-at-anti-air SPAA vehicles graded purely because of other vehicles of the same class performing good? Theyre supposed to be in-betweeners but Oerlikons clearly do that job better, Falcon and DCA are going to be easily outclassed by literally everything as stated before, Falcon is debatable, its still gonna be the same old rat machine good at dealing with light stuff, but what about the DCA? its a ZSU 37-2 comparable vehicle, and there is no reason for it to be 8.7, it always sucked compared to others and is going to suck even worse after the change, the nerf might make some Falcon haters happy for a week or two, but its just gonna create even more SPAA powercreep and inconsistency, ZA and ItPsV will still dominate the game along with 5 other Oerlikon SPAA, ZSU 57 will still be front penning all of its classmates, the 20mm RH and CN will still be melting your cannon and tracks, the non existent Coelian will still be abused by 5 kd players, and Bofors will still be making penta kills, this change will not fix the problem with the SPAA in any way, you either nerf all of them or none of them, you could’ve at least cherry picked on the Oerlikons instead, with other SPAA being nerfed later, and not make a hot mess already even more hot
