The CL-13A Mk.5 was literally the fastest jet in the game when it was added. Back then, during the top speed meta at top tier, there was nothing else that could even compete with it. In some cases, you and your teammate could wipe out the entire enemy team and send them back to the hangar within minutes.
Eventually, the Hunter F.1 and MiG-17 were introduced as direct counterparts to the CL-13, but there were still cases where the MiG-17 and CL-13 ended up on the same team. Playing anything from the NATO side other than the F-2 Sabre or the Hunter felt like pure suffering.
Hunter FGA.9/J32B is a similar case.
I would rather see a rotation BR like SBEC rather than a technology gap because it functionally works almost same and more easier to implement.
Oh yeah, Sim definitely has a great system as well, especially since then you can decide if you actually want to play that BR. The only argument I can think of is, “some BRs will be dead because people won’t play it” which makes sense, since I can hardly find servers on Sinai or Denmark when it’s 12.0 or 12.3+, but it’s a good system nonetheless.
Rotation BRs work for sim because the playerbase is tiny and would rather have balanced fun where they get to always pick top br in exchange for basically only being “allowed” to play specific BRs in any given day. The price is worth the payoff for them. For Air RB this would mean for example if I want to play the 109F4 at 4.0 but the current day is 4.0-5.0 then there is no viability in playing the 104F4 that day. The rotation system effectively kills off 50-60% of ALL BRS in game on any given day so that you can play the 40-50% that remain, then they rotate. This isn’t worth it for RB.
I wish I could get into SA servers, but all I get are CIS, EU, and NA. Do I need to put my location in Brazil or something for SA, or is it South Africa?
Great, last thing I need is to be in a server filled with cheaters. Well, last I checked, they’re only allowed one hour of screen time a day, so I should be safe… maybe. I wish they would bring back private Sim lobbies though. Those were the days.
I see plenty of people flying F4s on 4.0-5.0 days in SBEC, and I’ve done full uptier flying myself at prop brackets with all WW2-relevant nations and had fun.
Only time you dont want full uptiers is when flying a stock plane because it’s suffering enough most of the time.
Still want that 1v1 though. You are right that a lot of the people here are bad, but still. I need something to appease me than going 15-0 against an American main who thinks I cheated because the Jas39C has “too many flares” and accused me of cheating by using unlimited flares… despite being on Xbox, which doesn’t get access to cheats. Or my favourite: the level 30 Su-33 user that swears his other account had all of top tier Russia, and he’s just locked out because his mum sold his PC. Or my other personal favourite: another guy who was bent out of shape about Russian bias, so I decided to use the Su-27s and beat him with those while he was cursing about Russian bias (I’m 90% sure he just bought his way up, no way he had an entire lineup of F-15s, F-16s, and F-14s, but still couldn’t figure out how to use flares).
Again, sim community can put up with things that RB community won’t. Don’t pretend being permanent uptiered (literally) would not put people off from playing vast parts of the BRs the game has when they aren’t favored.
Yeah, I love how props get 4-5 tiers all to them, meanwhile jets get 3-4 tiers of no afterburner straight to AIM 120s, MICAs, and R-77s. Like I know the development from 1910-1950 is naught compared to 1951-1990, but still. There needs to be space.
