I’m honestly beyond frustrated that I even have to make a comment for this, let alone the several I have do for each A6M, that I know will be ignored in the end. Still, that tiny sliver of hope you developers will listen is making me write this out. But seriously Gaijin, what are we doing?? This used to be at 4.7!
Rationale:
Let’s start on the playerside to get this out of the way. Most of the playerbase agrees that the A6M5 series are horribly overtiered. Yet, despite this, the BRs continue to go up. Why is this? It’s because only more experienced players (who are willing to spade it) are playing it. The more they play it, the higher the winrates go up. To Gaijin, it looks like the plane is overperforming, but to anyone else, it’s apparent that primarily veteran players are the only ones willing to use it at the BR it’s at. This creates a feedback loop where fewer players are willing to touch the plane, but those (veterans) who do, tend to play decently enough for Gaijin to hit it with a BR nerf. In short, Gaijin is **punishing ** good players for playing an overtiered plane at the 5.7 bracket, while at the same time less-experienced players are unlikely to play it. Even I am less willing to play this plane now.
But if the developers choose to ignore the opinions of the players, they ought to at least consider that the A6M5 Ko and Otsu are outmatched by virtually EVERY FIGHTER at its BR. To name a few: the P-51-H, F8F, Spitfire F Mk. 22 and 24, the La-9, Yak-3U, G.56, the list goes on. And now Gaijin wants these Zeroes to fight the Me-262 and the Su-9? In what world is that reasonable? The Zeroes are at a BR that’s TOO HIGH for their capabilities already, and now they want them to fight improved jets? This is unacceptable.
Forgive me if I come across as overly critical, but I am frustrated. Not only do I wish a BR decrease, but I also ask for a proper explanation as to why the Zeroes keep going up despite their characteristics.
I also want to say that putting the A6M5 Otsu to 6.0 is crazy because now I have to use it in a 6.0-7.0 ground lineup. Absolutely nuts. If this goes to 6.3 in the very possible near future, I have to fight M163s. Insanity.
VT4 should be 12.0
It is worse in every way to the WZ1001 and the ZTZ99A yet it is at the same br. And the ztz96B has almost identical performance and capabilities, yet there is a 0.4 br difference between 2 very similar tanks.
- Cromwell V & Cromwell V (RP-3): No change. Just compare the Cromwell V to the M4A2. No stabiliser, worse armour, no .50 cal, no APCR, and worse reverse speed. The only thing the Cromwell beats the M4A2 in is forward mobility.
Just look at the KD, it’s barely 1. The only reason the win rate is so high is because the British have a strong 3.7 line up.
no no NO, the KING TIGER CANNOR GO DOWN, IT CAN ONLY GO UP, IT IS LITERALLY THE SCOURGE OF 5.7-7.7 ARE YOU CRAZY??? THE T20 IS ABSOLURELY AWFUL YOU ALSO CANNOT KEEP PUTTING IT UP IN BR?
oh my lord, when will gaijin stop looking at player performance and instead look at vehicle stats and PLAY THE GAME FOR THEMSELVES???
also, how the FUCK does the T26E5 go to 7.0 but the King Tiger remains pampered at 6.7!!! what the hell is this? were yall paid off by big H???
Yeah, these changes REALLY show how compressed 6.7 is. The early Tiger II is clearly worse than the later one, but clearly just a slightly weaker turret doesn’t really justify 6.3.
The Kungstiger is also doing better than the T26E5, same win rate but better KD. So why is one going down and the other going up? It’s just a bizarre change.
Vehicle Su-11 Gamemode: Air Realistic Battles BR Change: 7.3 → 7.7 Reason: Extremely strong all around flight performance. Stronger in every way than the Ouragan at 7.7. Playerbase wide statistics seen poor due to difficult to use guns, status as a premium, and usage in GRB.
Vehicle Yak-38 and Yak-38M Gamemode: Air Realistic Battles BR Change: 9.3 → 9.7 Reason: R-60s are way too strong to be facing subsonics with no countermeasures.
Im not even going to bother opening your profile and i will say you struggle to maintain 1.0 KD with Abrams to even suggest such nonsensical BR change.
Reasoning:
The MB326K should remain at 7.3 and not be moved up. Unlike the L39ZA at 7.7, the MB326K does not have a ballistic computer (CCIP) for guns or rockets, nor does it have a bombsight for level bombing. This forces the player to get in close for accurate ground attacks, exposing the aircraft to short‑range anti‑air fire. At 7.3, there are already dangerous SPAAs such as the M163 (with optical tracking) for the US, Israel, and Japan, as well as the ZSU‑23‑4M2 for the USSR – all of which are lethal at typical attack ranges. Moving it to 7.7 would place it against even more capable radar‑guided SPAAs like the Yenisei and VEAK 40, where the lack of CCIP becomes a critical disadvantage. The L39ZA can engage these targets from a safe distance thanks to its computer, but the MB326K cannot. Therefore, its current BR of 7.3 is appropriate and should not be increased.
Take one look at Statshark. Seriously it will take you ten seconds.
You’re not gonna believe what a few weeks of APHE do to a mf.
Agreed. With the IS-2s moving as well, it’s the odd one left out.
So you would rather it went up in BR, I understand. But reload speed was always a soft balancing factor in this game from the start of ground. Giving it a nerfed reload is the best way to bring it in line with its peers without sending it up. Which imho is preferable.
And x3 times the side armour, man. 50mm vs 152mm. You don’t think that justifies two BR steps? You can kill the T28 side on with a Kugelblitz (done it before) while a T-44 shooting broadside at a T95 has to carefully aim to punch through if not absolutely point blank. Throw in the fact that the double tracks act as spaced armour for the lower hull.
Any relatively inexperienced player that doesn’t know about the cupola exploit will have trouble even flanking and spanking it which they would not have with the T28.
Abrams crews have a notoriously fast reload. It’s 105 mm. Russians takes notoriously lose to western tanks in all know conflicts but on paper they all have thermals and stabilizers and can switch ammo types in in shell when they have to rotate their entire magazine to switch. Add 10-12 second reload switch for change of round
In what conflict? Only and only in Ukraine alone western tanks perfome the same if not worse because they are fat and easily stuck, any other Conflict that Western tanks were absolutely destroying Soviet tanks? except if you believe that in Desert Storm, T-55 and T-72 were a fair match against Abrams and Challengers
The T95 gets an extra 63mm-ish sloped plate of spaced armour that extends to over the side of those tracks.
The T28 only has its own side armour, which mind you really isn’t very thick at all.
A T28 can easily be defeated by flanking it. A T95 will still troll you even from the side.
