Reason: It is the G.55 sottoserie 0 buth with x3 20mils instead of one and 1 less Breda SAFAT, which due to current cannon damage is irrelevant outside of headons, but also means it is heavier (3.16 t
vs 3.22 t) and it comes with no improved powerplant and the Serie 0 already isn’t the best performer at the altitudes Air Realistic battles usually take in (below 4km)
The 1.0 BR difference between serie 0 and serie 1 is not justified.
Reason: The main downside of the C.202 is the firepower, Breda SAFAT already show lackluster ballistics, poor AP performance and lowest firerate of all 12.7mm armaments (700RPM).
This means the C.202 is supposed to have a somewhat average flight performance, currently it doesn’t and you can see it because despite being and aircraft required to progress you don’t see it at all in current battles.
Reason: Re.2005 has the same issue as the A6Ms do currently it is incredibly good at killing not so skilled pilots.
It has the same issues currently for the BR as the A6M5 does, can’t create presence early on, spends half the match trying to reach a furball and in late game it finally reaches and perhaps cashes in 2-3 kills. But that’s if the Re.2005 plays smarts and lasts until late into the battle.
Vehicle: Object 279 Gamemode: Ground Realistic BR Change: 9.0 —> 9.3 Reason: This tank has everything it takes to be one BR step higher: top-tier armor that’s impenetrable for many vehicles, good mobility and an excellent shell. Increasing this monster’s BR won’t make it unplayable, but it will allow 8.0 vehicles to play more fairly. It still will be decent tank on 9.3.
Reason: It is closer in performance to 5.7 aircraft like the Bf-109 K-4, Ki-84 Otsu and J5N1, F4U-4B.
But it mostly falls behind with aircraft like the F7F-1 , F8F-1B or worse P-51H-5-NA
It only went up because it was the least overtiered late-prop of Italy.
It is mostly intended as a jack of all trades, but currently it is a below average at every alley.
Rationale
Apart from the roof MG catching HE rounds, the Hetzer is exceptionally difficult to kill from head on even in uptiers while simultaneously possessing a strong gun. But its lack of overall protection and unexceptional mobility makes it a bit iffy to justify moving up to 4.7 in my opinion. This could still be done, but it should still receive a heavy reload nerf regardless of what happens to its BR.
The Hetzer is a notoriously unergonomic vehicle. The loader is placed on the wrong side of the gun, requiring him to reach across the recoil guard to operate the breech and load rounds. This makes it odd for the in-game vehicle to have the same reload as ever other L/48-armed tank. Nerfing the reload would more accurately represent the Hetzer and gives other vehicles a longer window to try to immobilize or outmaneuver it.
Vehicle: BI Gamemode: Air Realistic BR Change: 7.0 —> 7.3 min Reason: All similar aircraft are much higher in BR. This aircraft should not be at 7.0, at least 7.3. In the downtier, no one can even create the semblance of difficulty or competition for this aircraft. This is a unique aircraft, like all similar rocket planes, but at 7.0, this aircraft is simply a legal cheat. It won’t die at 7.3, but at least 6.0 won’t see that unbalanced abomination. With developer’s proposal to move up Zeros, that’s especially funny. What they can even do with BI??? The same is fair for all 6.0-7.0 planes, in my opinion. Move it up at least on 1 step, please!
Reason: Japan’s only exclusive Boom and Zoom single engine, is left to rot at 6.0, while even a Tu-2 from 5.7 can easily dunk on it.
J7W1 has 3 issues, poor climbrate (lift is created from the back thus it needs to point it’s nose up to fly level), poor medium speed performance, poor firerate, below average acceleration. It is an early jet, without the top speed of one, meaning if it wants to live it needs to fly above 500km/h. Issue? most superprops can catch even while level and easily accelerate to that speed on a 5 degree dive.
Why the interceptor spawn? well mostly because even sideclimbing the 5.7 props it will face will show above it, so the interceptor spawn is needed to make them meet at the same level and allow early presence in the battle.
Most of the US heavies are very good at their respective BRs. I would even argue that some of them are under-BR’d thanks to the average US players performance
The solid shot is not a problem at all. Look at the French tanks at similar BRs.
It doesn’t have the performance over the Spitfire F Mk IX to justify a higher battle rating. It’s a sidegrade at best with slightly better performance at low altitude that gets much worse at altitudes as the Seafire doesn’t have a 2 stage supercharger.
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?
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.
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.
