Dear developers and those responsible for vehicle balancing in the game,
Could you please explain how it is considered fair that a loadout of six Kh-38 missiles costs the same as six AGM-65G missiles or even four AGM-65H/F missiles? Who decided these missiles are equal in capability?
When I fly the Su-30SM and launch six Kh-38s, I consistently achieve around seven kills. But when I fly the F-15 and launch six AGMs, I get only two kills, three hits, and even one miss—on a stationary S1, no less!
Why is everything done in such a clumsy and lazy way? Sure, increasing the spawn cost for aircraft with IR missiles was needed — but why slap the same logic onto everything?
Four Mavericks are nowhere near the same league as six Kh-38s — not even close, not even hypothetically. And on top of that, a player can spawn a Su-34 right after and fire off another six Kh-38s without any penalty.
Seriously — what are you guys smoking that makes this seem like a good idea?
And despite all this, you still claim that giving the U.S. the AGM-114L or giving the UK and Germany Brimstones with fire-and-forget capability would be “unbalanced” and “unfair”?
But 12 Kh-38s in a single match — that’s balanced to you?
AGM-114L is not an IR guided AGM, nor is Brimstone, adding those would be infinitely more OP than Kh-38MT, AGM-65D, etc while causing more teamkills than FAB-5000s do.
Hellfires that fly for half a year to the target and constantly fall into the ground, also because of the slowness of these missiles the enemy often drives behind an obstacle throws off smoke, etc. They will not be as effective as the X-38, not to mention the fact that the enemy will have a Pantsir that will intercept your missiles. The developers just want to make a comfortable game for only one side.
Whether or not MMW would be too OP is a matter for an entirely different thread.
But
Gaijins “balance” is woeful when it comes to top tier AGMs
The soviets have and have had the best SPAA at top tier by an extremely large margin for a while now and 5 nations still do not have competitive top tier SPAA at all, 2 dont even have top tier SAMs.
And yet they got the KH-38MT (which turns out to be a paper weapon) on a, granted, weak platform in form of the SU-25SM3 but KH-29s would have been more than what most could actually deal with at the time, but was rapidly hard countered by ARH.
Then they added Su-34 and all balance went out the window. They refused to add even SAL-Only Brimstone 2s to either the Tornado Gr4 or Typhoon which would have at least given us some form of equal range, but nope.
Now with the F-18C, they havent even added AGM-84 SLAM yet.
So the best AGM in game, on the same nation with the best (and arguably only viable) top tier SPAA and they refuse to add anything even close to equal in terms of performance to anyone else (except france with AASM, but I think that was just because it had nothing else) . Its frustrating as hell
If GBUs were the only guided munitions in the game, Pantsir would be good, but GBUs aren’t.
IR AGMs have been reigning supreme for years at this point.
I’m not asking to lower the spawn cost for aircraft with IR missiles — after all, 3–5 minutes into the match and there are already 2–3 jets in the air.
But I think most players would agree that the Su-30SM should be priced around 1100–1200 SP, and the Su-34 around 1000–1100 SP.
As long as players keep tolerating this, staying silent, and — most importantly — keep spending money on this garbage game, the devs won’t lift a finger to change anything.
Again. Great if you’ve got something that can spam 5+ at a Pantsir, screwed if you dont.
Been trying to play an 11.7 line-up and with the Tornado Gr1 armed with PGM-2000s you cant do anything if there is a Pantsir Active because it just shoots them all down 100% of the time.
But given not a single British aircraft has the ability to carry enough FnF AGMs to saturate a Pantsir, there is nothing you can do. Even in the Typhoon the best weapon is a GBU
It would be ideal if each missile with IR guidance cost a certain number of points, for example, one missile costs 200 points, 4 Mavericks are 800 points, but the X-38MT for 6 missiles is 1200 points.
USA mains: spam 6x FnF mavericks since 10.3 BR for years, making up to 6 frags in one pass
gaijin: adds missile to top tier ru planes that is capable of the same thing
USA mains: UNACCEPTABLE!
