What can they touch? It’s already max br. And ofc they’d up br stuff that are good at being AT, have you not experience the horroe of the falcon, dca, and even the leo2 marksman?
This game heavily favour cas already, and pantsir being the best spaa around already sturggles against cas, and you want to nerf it?
I have experienced the “horror” that people ratting with vehicles like the Falcon are, but instead of doing the right thing and limiting the anti-tank capabilities of these vehicles they resort to bringing them up in BR, limiting their anti-air capabilities as they are now meeting more advanced planes.
The answer to the CAS problem in top tier would be:
add a BR cutoff for planes so only planes below a certain BR can be used in ground battles (or get rid of the BR squish and only match people that bring stuff like the F-15E against people that bring similarly strong planes)
nerf the Kh-38MT or get rid of it entirely, only leaving the Kh-38ML
limit the 95Ya6s (Panstir missile) range to the 12km that all the other nations are limited to until the promised new anti air systems arrive so there is a somewhat even playing field
In simple terms I mean that if player A has across all his vehicles KD 6.0 and player B has KD 0.5 and we are balancing vehicle X than performances of player A and B respectively on vehicle X are properly adjusted by how good they are in game.
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Is it possible to know that? I am not asking about specific algorithm but just in general if player overall skill is taken into consideration.
It’s not based on certain players. They use the average of the statistics of everyone that has used a vehicle in a certain timeframe to determine if the BR of said vehicle should go up, stay the same, or go down.
To preface: I acknowledge all of your concerns and love that you spoke your mind in that post, Khorne.
I have my own concerns with the post as well as agreements.
1- The tech tree 12.7s are at least as good as the premiums, and 1 - 2 of the 12.3 tech tree vehicles are as good as the Netz at the least. Not pay to win.
2- F-18C is the 3rd best airframe with among the best missile kit. That’s not worse than the competition. Or is your post referencing Su-30SM?
3- Brimstones don’t have IR channels. IR AGMs being OP is an issue that new SPAA will alleviate.
I am anticipating when Type 81 gets a search radar datalink as a off the top of my head example.
4- Why would SPAA be nerfed when it’s already useless at destroying weapon carriers?
All ten tech trees need SPAA better than Pantsir IMO.
5- ? F-18C being 14.0 is a strong indication they’re using vehicle and weapon specifications for balancing as the primary method.
6- ? Stormer AD is a slightly better LAV AD due to being tracked instead of wheeled. Why does USA and Britain have an alleged tax cause the ADs are 10.0?
IDK if they’re bad at 10.0 as I’ve been using the LAV AD on and off, but if you think they’re bad for 10.0 I’d love to read your explanation, sir. Especially since 9.7 CAS has a ~4km range usually.
7- Probably an issue.
8- Compression means to reduce the volume while having the same material; in the context of the BR system that would be changing 1.0 - 14.0 to 1.0 </=13.7.
The movement of BRs causing power creep at lower BRs is an issue that I want them to address. Bad BR placement is not helpful for the playerbase.
9- We haven’t had CAS capabilities that exceed existing SPAA capabilities since 2022; all CAS added has continued being OP and SPAA never caught up.
SPAA needs to catch up IMO.
10- Maybe an issue that I can acknowledge.
Yes, the F-18C accelerates faster than a Gripen while retaining similar energy. J-10A hasn’t been fully tested on accelerations, but its energy retention is worse than the Gripen and F-18C.
F-18C also has a superior radar to J-10, and a superior weapons kit.
No, it’s not the fastest in top speed, and it’s not the only one; however matches are more than top speed.
The F-18A at 12.3 is blatantly OP though, it easily takes the reins from F-16A and EJ Kai, which are themselves still OP for 12.3; the 12.3 powercreep is getting annoying.
F-18C energy retention at minimum fuel: ~20.3 degrees per second measured at 550kph.
Gripen energy retention at minimum fuel: ~20.4 degrees per second measured at 550kph.
Gripen energy retention at 400kph is ~18.3 deg/sec.
And in the dogfights, the Gripen was almost tied with the F-18C having slight advantage in results.
F-18C vs Rafale, Rafale had more results than F-18C, but it wasn’t guaranteed wins for Rafale.
F-18C vs Typhoon went as expected.
The 20deg/s on the F-18C is at speeds that the gripen will enjoy 23.5 deg/s. And if the hornet tries to rate fight at that speed the gripen can just beat it in the 1C comfortably. The slowest the fight gets, the more advantage the gripen will have.
All the gripen needs to do is to force the F-18 in the vertical once or twice, and then it’s an easy kill
I wonder if they will give the AOA limiter the option to only turn off when held and not toggled. I feel like it would be a nice feature mainly for air sim