Things like a F-16 just flat out shouldn’t move down if they can’t be bothered to decompress.
This is an atrocious approach to balancing the game and will only cause further compression over time with other planes suddenly performing much worse according to gaijins statistics.
Wonder if that means the snail could be looking at adding J35ÖE. Considering their prior mindset that the XS was 11.3 worthy the ÖE wouldve been 13.3 now its looking like it might only be 12.3
Perhaps, though again, it might mean nothing at all and this is just them slowly un-doing the decompress from last year
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Was more so a joke that the ÖE originally couldn’t be added to the game without being a 3rd gen 1950s frame with 9L and Falcon at 13.3 with 12 CM lol
It’s a good flight model with an awful missile kit, sharing a BR with the arguably better Mirage 2000C-S4 and MiG-21Bison, as well as the pretty much equivalent F-4EJ thanks to its AIM-7s and the worse K2K, that is it for fighters at 12.3 and as far as I can see, it fits right in.
And most of the strike aircraft at that BR get IRCCM missiles too, just sucks to be the JH-7A.
Yes, decompression would be better, but BR 12.3 is already toxic as hell, adding the F-16A to it likely doesn’t move the needle
I think it was a change less for balance and more to make it more intuitive and user friendly.
Unfortunate as now it’s less likely to ever be a true real alternative to the F-16AJ.
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Yea all fox 3 has the same seeker in game which is a shame
I thought it was too good to be true, well it was fun to think about while it lasted ig
Just a shame as it used to be my main SL grinder when it was at 10.0, kinda a shame to see it used as a zomber too, i much prefer to play it as a fighter which is why I’m frustrated at the BR
Aircraft BRs being based upon what they can in theory earn per sortie via base bombing alone is really annoying.
I get it to a degree and it shouldnt be totally forgotten, but some aircraft just have no buissness being anywhere near their current BRs but are just because of a bomb load.
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@Smin1080p_WT will r-77s drag be looked at? its grid fins allow it to have dynamic drag, which isnt yet possible in game, yet it seems to have the highest drag from its graph
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AFAIK the A-1A is the only thing I saw right now, but it is a good change.
Well apperciated.
bucc s2b is a prime example of that imho
IE, British bombers, British bombers, and British bombers, and then some B-24/PB4Y
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Still not entirely sure why its not 10.7, but incremental changes might be the plan. J-35XS has dropped 0.3 BR every single BR change for about a year now. So maybe AMX A-1A will drop to 10.7 next change
Yeah, exactly the one that always come to mind for me too. Its A2A power barely warrants it being 8.3 (not that im saying it should be that low, but it could be that low)
but its basically all heavy bombers as well
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I cant say too much in terms of the A-1A, but it doesnt felt like the piranhas are worth that extra notch. Guns - given their decency in first loop, both are managable. Cant really expect them to bomb bases as well, only faster than Su-25s and A-10s.
They have a longer guidance delay than 9Ls but are also faster off the rails. Which both makes the delay worse and them more potent than 9Ls. So once you accomodate the delay by firing a little further away, they do pull better and are half decent. But im not sure if I consider them truly superior to the Aim-9L. More of an overall side-grade to them. Different, and better in someways but equally worse in others.
With that in mind, why the AMX A-1A is a higher BR than the AMX or Buc S2B is a totally mystery to me and yeah, Even at 10.7 I wouldnt bother using it in RB, its okay in SB and 11.0 will help a bit, but its hard to justify using it over the Buc S2B at 10.7 which has equal bomb load, equal RWR but has a radar and is faster
Nice
Don’t forget B-29 and B-29ski