I personally think this new mechanic should only apply to aircraft that carry new missiles on old airframes, or poor airframes with good missiles.
If it is universally introduced, an inevitable problem will arise: I can just not bring high-BR missiles on a good airframe to get a lower BR and club lower tiers.
For example, if the F-4E only carries AIM-7Es instead of AIM-7E-2s, will its BR drop to 11.0? Then the Japanese F-4EJ would be completely outclassed — the F-4E has a better RWR and better flight performance, and the Japanese Phantom simply cannot compete.
But by the same logic, if the Japanese Phantom drops its AIM-7Es and only takes AIM-7Ds, or even removes its IR missiles entirely, it will be downtiered and squeeze the F-4C out of its spot. And then the F-4C, by removing its missiles, can also go down and club.
Take the Mirage III: if I don’t bring Magic 1s, can’t I just go down and use the airframe to rush everything? If the Su-30mkk and mk2 don’t carry active-radar missiles, won’t their BRs drop so they can kill those premium F/A-18s?
Even the MiG-23ML can simply bring no missiles at all — without R-24s, its BR would plummet. Then it just takes two napalm bombs, rushes bases at 11.0, and good luck dealing with that — nobody can stop it.
If this continues, it’s just forced downtiering over and over, which could cause a very serious shock to the current air combat environment. And honestly, it’s unclear whether that’s good or bad right now.
i think youre worrying about it too much,
if a mig23ml is too strong at 11.0 without r24s then it would go up in BR same way the game has always worked
the f4ej without missiles wouldnt be the same BR as the f4c, one has flares one doesnt
the f4ej does technically have a higher top speed
they have been quite clear that its not a feature coming to everything yet
I don’t think its that universal, BR presets will be added on a case by case basis. Simply removing AAM’s for a lower BR likely won’t be a universal option.
What is worth worrying about is that every adjustment for them will take time. Meanwhile there will be some stompers and some suckers. They’ve announced separate brs for different gamemodes and it’s still not there for everything in the game, doubt it ever would be.
Yes, but Gaijin have shown time and time again that they have little clue when it comes to balancing. Some changes are completely nonsensical, others don’t get changed despite being objectively better than others don’t get uptiered at all.
We are now going to introduce more variables that will unltimately create, like you said, planes that will club. We decompress the game only to bring it back by introducing Mig-29s at 10.0 (exaggeration) because 1 GSH isn’t that good.