100% agree, +1. Removing AMRAAM from the OCU and lowering it in BR would easily let them add the F-16A (e)MLU next update if they really want an F-16 with AMRAAMS for the Thai subtree (Which is what they should have done in the first place honestly)
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they didnt
Mode: Air Realistic Battles
Aircraft: f18 late (USA)
Change: 14.0 → 13.7
Reasoning: This plane is too slow for a 14.0, I was against this change before, but thinking about it, maybe it would be better for it to be a 13.7, it doesn’t compete with the f15E/I, EF or Rafale.
We know Gaijin will not decompress top tier. We know this is akin to asking for the moon. Or for anyrone else get a Pantsir equivalent. But dropping a jet to a BR it was already at and was originally fine existing at, now thats easy. Like unbelievably easy. And we can move the A-10s and Su-25s back down too since that was another asinine change.
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And it’ll make anything else a pain to play because you won’t be able to climb, and you will always have to defend, putting yourself at a severe disadvantage at the beginning. This is partly the fault of air RBs game design, where you need to rush to the middle in order to be effective.
It doesn’t help that Fakours are insanely fast, and are on a good airframe.
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I don’t understand even a little bit why other then bias against French players again… is the AMX-40 going to 10.0 .
It has very bad gun handling with a max turret Horizontal speed of 25°/s and 6°/s Vertical on an ace crew and FIX 10x Zoom .
No Autoloader , 6.7sec Ace Reload
No Armor at all , even in a full downtier at 8.7 EVERY Heat/Apds/APFSDS shells go right through it from the front either your Turret or your Hull .
The APFSDS Shell has bad/mid Penetration 394mmMax/214mmMin while at 9.7 the SABRA Has 589mmMax/313mmMin (Better than the Leclerc Best Shell AT 12.0 ! Might i add .
And worst of all at 9.7 it was the only MBT of your Lineup which means that now the AMX-40 will be alone with no lineup at 10.0 and your 9.7 lineup will only consist of light tanks… Amazing .
KEEP the AMX-40 at 9.7 (even at 9.3 it wouldn’t be a broken tank)
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Preventing all aspect missiles from facing Sabres/Mig-17s and similar stuff is not an asinine change.
Mode: Air Realistic Battles
Aircraft: F16 OCU
Change: 13.7 → 13.3
Reasoning: 30 countermeasures, no hmd is a block 10/15 f16… Why is it in the same BR as F16C Block 50? Since it has everything worse than Block 50.
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Maybe if they had recieved the air spawn Gaijin said they would get alongside the BR change, Id probably agree with you. But they didn’t, so it was indeed an asinine change.
I understand if the T-55AM 1 gets sent to 9.0 thats reasonable but the T-55AMD 1 will not be good at 9.0. Drozd is nice but most vehicles you will be encountering will be shooting darts and 400mm+ HEATFS .
Mode: Air Realistic Battles
Aircraft: F16 AM
Change: 13.7 → 13.3
Reasoning: Same situation as OCU but with more countermeasure, Why is it in the same BR as F16C Block 50? Since it has everything worse than Block 50 without hmd zzz
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Vehicle: T62
Gamemode: , Ground Arcade , Ground Realistic
BR Change: 8.7 —> 9.0
Reason
1- tank of ww2 of 7.7 do not need too see this monster
2 blunders which already exist don’t make another blunder good.
I am well aware and understand how you tomcat-enjoyers love tomcat, and it now has a terrible time against the F-15E
But, sending it down to 12.7 is making it dominate everything again and makes 11.7-12.7 dead.
bc full uptier match (12.7-13.7) does not happen much because there are just too many of 14.0BR jets, which magnet everything below.
I know the current F-14A IRIAF is meh now.
But sadly, keeping a single plane dead is better than keeping the whole BR radius dead.
We need something better than ‘just send it back to 12.7’ for the solution.
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Mode: Air Realistic Battles
Aircraft: F104 S and F104 S TAF
Change: 11.3→ 11.0
Reasoning: This plane is by far the worst plane in the game after the nerfs, at least reduce its BR so it can try to be playable.
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Mode: Realistic Battles
Vehicle: AMX40
BR Change: 10.0-> 9.7(No Change)
Reasoning: AMX 40 has no armor nor penetration(394mm is almost the lowest) in BR 10.0, espscially when it’s in uptiere battles. Furthremore, this disintegrate the French 9.7 lineup, resulting the four only French vehicles in its VII rank distributed in 3 different BRs, which is very unreasonable.
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The Fox after the turret nerf going up seems very unneccesary and the FV4030/3 going up makes the rapier going down pointless and removes any reason to buy the FV4030/3 being there’s no decent line up for it at 10.0 and 0.3 of a BR higher is much better vehicles
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Mode: Air Realistic Battles
Aircraft: F104S.ASA
Change: 12.0→ 11.7 or 11.3
Reasoning: this f104 is only 0.3 br away from a f16A, that’s crazy
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I understand. I’m not saying the Viggen D21 should be 13.0. I’m just saying it’s very workable with what it has, and its playstyle can’t be compared to the F-14 IRIAF’s, especially when it comes to how viable it is.
I would like to see the following vehicles increased in BR (in all modes) to follow the long ago increase in vehicles around the ~5.0-7.0 BR’s. All these vehicles easily bully their competition and are especially unfair against the majority of 2.3-3.0 BR vehicles. But because they mostly face eachother its hard to see that they overperform as they don’t overperform against eachother. Playing many other vehicles around their BR feels like handicapping yourself.
M4A1
M4
M4A2
M24
T-34 (1940)
T-34 (1941)
T-34 (1942)
T-34E STZ
KV-1 (L-11)
KV-1B
KV-1E
Pz.4 F2
Pz.4 G
Pz.4 H
ARL-44 (ACL)
Also furthering this decompression above 7.3 would be nice to see too.
AMX-40 - keep at 9.7
The AMX-40 does not have the required stats to be at 10.0.
Its gun handling, armour(lack thereof) and gunner’s sight would make it frustrating to play in uptiers, even with the tank’s exceptional mobility. Compared to other vehicles at this battle rating(Leopard 2K, Leopard 2AV etc.), the AMX-40 would be underwhelming. This would also make the somewhat recently fleshed out 9.7 lineup not nearly as viable.
Out of all the presented changes, this one is the most unjustified to me.
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