I have a feeling ground is going to be dead very soon. Even if they add new vehicles to low tier, the only people I really see using those “new” vehicles are those that are forced to grind them. I mean, it is extremely rare to see anyone post level 30 using the M44, at least in my experience. And of the minority that are past level 30, are those that have nothing higher than that BR for that country.
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Aye, There’s not a whole lot left in terms of truly unique MBT’s, but the list of SPAA’s, Lights, IFV’s and just general tertiary / support vehicles is pretty vast. And its those which, IMO, will improve top tier gameplay QOL the most.
SPAA needs to be absolutely priority in the near term though. It’s fallen horrendously far behind in capability in this top tier CAS arms race we’ve had as of late.
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T-14 will come to the game it has to as do the more of the questionable prototypes the game needs content to grind. For a lot of players if they arent grinding they arent having fun.
No grind no need to buy premium accounts or vehicles
Sure, they will likely go for that stuff at some point, but I don’t think we have quite reached that point yet.
They will probably work on adding more subtrees first, considering that some nations don’t even have prototypes to be added as new top tier MBTs lol
Yeah, but that means Gaijin will have to get over their air bo… I mean, “love for air” and actually give us modern Spa as like the South African Umkhonto GBADS, Israeli SPYDER, and heck, I would take a PATRIOT system on the back of a Ford F-150 if it means we have half decent SPAAs.
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I mean Britain was the first nation with the “excellent” CR3TD a tank that transformed the meta
I’m going to need to see documents on the T-14. I just hope Putin doesn’t call for my arrest because of this.
It’s so excellent, it even gets to be a lower BR than older models lol
My point is they were added into an environment where they are dominant because they face no serious opposition besides themselves.
It’s a Strike Eagle, Rafale and Eurofighter controlled top tier.
They do and the F-15E is still the BVR king…Maybe that changes with Typhoons Radar upgrades?
Gaijin cant add great stuff for every nation every update. Let it be said Typhoon and Rafale have been in game for 3 months.
Yeah, go figure. American mains dominate the BVR, but we can’t have Meteors because that would be unfair.
To be fair, and i know this is absolutely zero consolation to JPN/RU/CN/SWE players these past few months, but 6/10 countries having a competitive top aircraft simultaneously is probably up there as one of the most ‘balanced’ periods in top tier history lmao.
When you go back through the years, it’s often just been like 1-3 countries with something clowning everyone else. Very rare for it be a majority.
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I mean, Meteors would definitely be unfair lol
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Possibly an option, that might fix some things , to varying degrees the issue is that the configuration hasn’t entirely been “frozen” yet so stores options are still up in the air, and to some degree will depend on what exactly gets funded, for which clients.
Certain stores like the JSM, JASSM and SiAW will cover over some shortcomings in the loadings for particular mission sets but nothing particularly ground breaking or that would increase the magazine depth to more than the 2x BRU-77 (variant of the BRU-61, for SDBs) carrying 8x GBU-53.
So do I
This is legitimately one of the most frustrating things in the game from a systems perspective, that the F-4E is not a late block airframe(if need be the F-4D could alternately represent be the early F-4E’s counterpart if the mix of A2A & A2G stores is untenable).
Could certainly be made work, the issue would be what to do with the existing F-4C, and lack of F-4B to provide relative A2A / A2G tasking focus, which could also be used to get the AN/AAA-4 IRSTS.
The A-7D, and a few other airframes have it in game for some reason, even though it’s been superseded by the -65B for most airframes.
Eh, American mains need to be knocked down a peg. It’s getting pretty irritating spawning in a Su-27, just to be smacked five seconds after spawning in Golan Heights (Air Spawn) by three different F-15Es hurling all of their AIM 120Bs.
To be fair, air spawn maps shouldn’t be a thing in high tier matches.
They also are adding R-77-1 to even out the missile performance at least a little bit, but yeah, just like with the F-14s, the amount of missiles being launched paired with the amount of players that don’t know how to or that cannot be bothered to fly defensively early on really ruins a lot of matches.
It’s why I mostly avoid playing top tier, but I prefer WVR combat anyways.
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I just wish they would have clear barriers between different missiles for balance. I mean, why in the bloody hell are 9.3 planes with no flares fighting A-10s with 4 AIM 9Ls. Why are planes that are still using front aspect missiles with small calibre countermeasures being expected to fight AIM 120s at 12.0?
It’s obvious that compressing BRs is not working, the only thing that will work is by establishing boundaries between obvious OP metals by, not changing BRs, but by splitting the meta of tiers from things that do not have the ability to fight the meta.
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They should definitely either divide air battles into WVR-only and WVR+BVR or add some sort of cutoffs between technologies.
However, BR decompression should still happen.
From an F-15I perspective, i was expecting the introduction of EF to actually add something that contests the Eagles way up high, but for whatever reason, very few of them actually seem to want to do that. They mostly just tend to hug the deck and give us the same freedom to spam-raam from space that we enjoyed before.
They have the kit / performance to contest this, but they often just don’t. Maybe they’re just used to playing that way from the other aircraft in their tree’s? Idk.
Well compression is clearly not working at the moment. Hence why I’m saying that there needs to be a split between the metas (as stated, AIM 9Ls and Ms versus planes that can only use rocket pods as flares, AIM 120s versus planes that cannot even tell they’re being fired at, etc.)
Although, if compression has taught us anything, Gaijin just specifically hates Britain with how much we get shafted. Like please explain to me why the A-10 menace: with GBUs and AGMs and AIM 9Ls are at 10.3, while the Sea Harrier is at 11.0, fighting F4S every single match.