I mean yeah I get it, but once again the point of the BR change is not to improve balance at top tier, it’s to improve the situation from 9.0-11.0 which gets dragged up to top tier.
I’m certain that BR decompression for top tier will come when Gaijin is ready to add more top ground vehicles. But it seems right now they’re focusing on aircraft, since there’s a bit more room to expand there.
My guy, some nations have already reached a dead-end in terms of content. Japan has nothing more left to add, Germany has just 2A7V copy-pastes with Trophy, US has one MBT left, UK has just the Challenger 3 left.
We are in the end game now, and they still haven’t done any proper decompression of BRs (we should’ve been on 13.0 by now, not 12.0), what we have is a circus.
It does have better thermal generation, and if it had the CITV it’s currently missing then I’d say it would be on the same level as the HC and clickbait, but as of now the lackluster firepower and missing CITV are indeed a problem…
Its literally the same rank and soon BR as the T14 which is cheaper, iirc they have similar bonuses also so maybe im missing something but between the 2 the T14 is still cheaper and has a lineup so the 2.8k price doesnt make much sense. Unless they differ greatly in RP/SL modifiers.
@Smin1080p_WT Typo by the way. Sea harrier FRS1 is already 11.3, not sure how it can move from 11.0 to 11.3 as it is already 11.3. I assume its meant to be dropping in BR down to 11.0 from 11.3?
I agree that the balance at top tier is wacky and does need the help, for sure.
But there definitely are vehicles out there that Gaijin would use to push the BRs further. Next-gen tech demonstrators, late Cold War prototypes-- both of these are highly requested, likely to come at some point, and Gaijin would probably use their introduction to extend the maximum BR up to 12.7 or 13.0, then the current range of top vehicles would get decompressed.
This change involves recalculating the parameters of the APDS rounds fired by the 30 mm L21A1 cannon (and all vehicles using the 30x170 APDS-T shell as well) and consisted of the reduction of its armor penetration against both angled and flat armor. We’ve decided to postpone this alteration and not release it together with the planned Battle Rating changes. We’ll be implementing it later on as this will also affect some other small caliber APDS ammunition.
@Smin1080p_WT Is it just me or is it a blatant nerf? Not because it’s unrealistic or improperly modeled. It’s just because the developers want to reduce its effectiveness. Once again, the developers don’t like the current perfomance and intentionally reduce APDS penetration…
Let’s do the same with dm53 to balance 2a7 for example)))
They can do that at any time, regardless of whether the top BR is 12.0 or 13.0
We shouldn’t be needing to wait on “tech vehicles” for proper decompression, we should be getting said decompression now so that some of the weaker vehicle won’t have to face some of the late Cold War prototype monsters in the future due to creation of new breathing spaces.
the Falcon could be placed in 7.7 or 8.0br without problems (it would have to face more armored things than in 8.3) I don’t see the reason for this nerf