Planned Battle Rating Changes (August 2026)

It’s mediocre global stats don’t really justify doing both of those.

But it won’t - the Pz 4s (including Stug III) reload are going down to 5.0. So they won’t be the same.

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The BR change will give a reload buff to many tanks of the same class, unifying them at 5 seconds.
However, the Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer will not receive this buff and will remain unchanged from its current state.
This already puts it in a relatively nerfed position. Wouldn’t further nerfing it from here be going too far?

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Vehicle: Yak-3U
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Mode: Air Realistic Battles

BR revision: 5.7 → 6.3

Reason:
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YAK-3U SINCE I BEGAN TO PLAY 5.7. THERE ARE 4501680 SECONDS OF MY ENTIRE PLAYTIME. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH PICOSECOND OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF SECONDS IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR YAK-3U PLAYERS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE.

Yak-3U can keep pace to any opponent at the altitudes it is supposed to be “weak”, and the moment the enemy drops belows 2km of altitude, it can’t run, it can’t climb away, it can’t outturn it in most cases, it can’t trap it or stall it.

Last update sent the Spitfire LF Mk IX and Re.2005 serie 0 were sent up, and then every almost plane at 5.0 was sent up, Yak-3U from an already broken spot essentially came down.

And the Yak-3U has the nerve to fall below the dead corpse that are A6M5s in stadistics and apparently now BR, they always try a stall shot, those Yak-3U players don’t have even a concept of energy.

Then you have the Poor La-9, completely abandoned because the Yak-3U simply wins for free.

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What heavy are we even talking about at this point? The T26s and T29s have APCBC with HE filler, which has better penetration than the pure AP.
If you are talking about APCR, just don’t use that unless you absolutely need it for a specific target.

The T26E5s reload time is half of that of the T29 (7.5 vs 15), its hull has way better protection and the turret, while being slightly less armoured, still is protected well enough.

XM246
8.7 → 8.3
why is the XM246 which has an incredibly slow chasis relative to other 35mm SPAA, the same guns and ammunition as the IPSTV leopard and gepard, and a rather poorly performing radar, a whole BR higher. this ruins the american 8.3 lineup, as it means the only usable SPAA is the M163 VADS unless youre willing to risk uptiers to 9.7. i think an 8.3 dowtier to the 246, or an 8.7 uptier to all NATO 35mm SPAA is in order

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you dont need to blow the thing out of proportion


2.0 K/D is still very strong, its a strong vehicle but i dont think it ought to be over 5.0

I don’t think other German tanks getting reload buffs is going to notably effect the Hetzer’s performance. In an actual engagement, with any non-German tanks, nothing has changed.

Maybe something a bit less harsh, around 6.5~6.9 sec like the T-34’s, would be an acceptable nerf.

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5.0 is too low as it will still face 4.0s.

These battles were all played at 5.3. Excuse the excessive Japan, the announcement of the Ho-Ri being removed has temporarily made Japan a major nation.

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Oh no a Merkava mk2 shiver me timbers

really cant use current matchmaker as the baseline as japan was allergic to making good tanks (hence why they cope with fake TDs like the HO-RI)

ive never seen a 38t be a real threat tbh. doesnt take much to dispose of them

Surely they are working hard on coming up with better changes that don’t create more compression

This one

LAV-AD is nearly double the speed of the machbet, has a stabilized 25mm over the non-stabilized 20mm, more penetration, Rocket pod or a secondary stinger launcher.

The M103 has HEAT-FS

Also, how is that one relevant for the T26/T29?

Bruh

How can you even think this.

The only logiical answer to moving the t26 to 7.0 is to sell more t29 premiums.

Make everything people have fun with mid

Doesn’t really effect its SPAA performance.

Neither should be facing early post-war jets.

  1. that was a joke
  2. the world doesn’t revolve around the T26
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does actually as you can reposition to avoid CAS youre currently unable to combat or reposition to be SHORAD for the frontline.

Game revolves around premiums while the vics arround them suffer is whats at play

Su-7B 9.3 → 9.0, air realistic