Aircraft gameplay from 9.7 and above is the worst aircraft gameplay I’ve ever experienced in War Thunder. I’m a long-time player, I’ve always played top-tier aircraft, the gameplay that has formed in every aspect is the worst I’ve ever seen. And it’s not because of modern aircraft, but because of Gaijin.
Gaijin is destroying the gameplay by changing aircraft performance, with completely unbalanced BRs, and now we even have useless radars that can’t find absolutely anything. I could list a huge number of aircraft that Gaijin has destroyed in an attempt to “balance” them at certain BRs, but there are so many that I’d probably forget some.
Gaijin needs to stop this habit of trying to balance aircraft by changing their performance, the missiles or now the radar. Ever since I started playing top tier, there are aircraft whose performance I’ve seen changed around 20 times. That’s ridiculous. The aircraft, missile, or radar should be the way it really is in real life, or at least close to it.
For years I’ve been hearing that you need to decompress the BRs, and it always takes an absurdly long time to be fixed. You’re taking way too long to listen to the community.
From 9.7 to 10.7, you have subsonic aircraft fighting supersonic ones, aircraft without flares fighting all-aspect missiles.
From 10.7 to 11.7, you have supersonic aircraft fighting subsonic ones.
From 11.7 to 12.7, you face aircraft whose radars barely work against aircraft with Fox-1 missiles and missiles that can easily hit targets up to 25 km away. Some aircraft at this BR don’t even have RWR, while others have radars that detect aircraft far more easily.
From 12.7 to 13.7, you get aircraft that only have Fox-1 missiles with 20-year-old technology compared to Fox-3 missiles.
And now at top tier, you’ve nerfed the radars of some aircraft so grotesquely that you can barely find any targets, even when aircraft are right next to you. There’s an enormous difference between PESA and AESA radars compared to mechanical radars.
Not to mention that the spotting system at top tier is garbage. Aircraft at this level shouldn’t even need spotting. Top-tier gameplay boils down to whether you are spotted or not. Once you’re spotted, the entire enemy team finds you and starts missile spamming.
For me, playing aircraft has become very discouraging. Fourth-generation aircraft were the generation I was most excited to play, and it has been a terrible and demoralizing experience. I actually prefer playing top-tier aircraft in ground battles now.
There are aircraft that you’ve ruined to the point of being unplayable.
I believe you urgently need to decompress the BRs and make a drastic change. The game is completely unbalanced.
And you should focus on keeping aircraft performance realistic instead of changing performance in exchange for “balance.” The focus should be on BR changes. This BR limitation that you impose on the game is preventing you from focusing on realism. Being realistic has always been the essence of War Thunder, and I feel that Gaijin is increasingly losing sight of that.