Stock grinding is absolute hell at top tier and has been for a while. Hopping in a new jet with no chaff, 2 ARH missiles and 2 IR makes the game almost unplayable tbh.
i usually do fine in matches once i get chaff and the fox 3 mods, but by the time you unlock that stuff you’ve played many matches of hell that it stops being fun.
It honestly feels like you’re being punished for unlocking a new jet at this point.
I feel like if they gave you some chaff, and 4 fox 3’s to start it would make it so much better.
Warthunder is a game, and its supposed to be fun. When it stops being fun, the dev’s should make changes to make the player experience better.
in Gaijin’s words, WT is not a game, but a money printer, money that they never use to improve the game and generate even more money cuz players like the new improvements.
indeed, toptier ARB is annoying: the simple fact that u need to grind ur own defenses is annoying.
i don’t feel giving planes more stock fox-3s would be good, but giving them stock chaff would.
the simple fact that Gaijin treats chaff like an omnipotent object (so omnipotent that u even have to grind it in jets that don’t face fox-1/3s like Yak-28B at 9.0 which actually had flares back in time, something that actually helped and would be fair to grind at 9.0, not dumb and useless chaff) is what makes me don’t like toptier at all.
when every plane at 14.0 gets at least 8 ARH missiles, only having 2 means you cant really fight properly at all. even if you chaff and notch perfectly, you really only have 2 chances while they have 8-14 depending on the jet.
I’m grinding through the SU-30 SM2 right now, and even though its a great jet every game is a giant struggle
the fox 2’s don’t get used a lot of the time since most people just kill you before you get in range unless you manage to ambush them, which doesn’t happen often
i have a 26% win rate in the sm2 right now compared to a 60% win rate in the su27SM