Planned Battle Rating changes for August 2025 (updated 16:00, 15.08)

I think it is excellent for helicopters. But against jets, it is a tough fight.

GRB
Valentine 1 2.7 to 2.3
there is no good reason for it to go up, its a very mediocre tank that doesnt really excel at anything

4 Likes

hell nah💀☠️

What? You think speed is more important (which the Eurofighter already has good speed) than agility which is much more important in the top tier for notching missiles? Do you choose the F-15E with its broken TWS, inferior NCTR, inferior RWR, no IRST, no MAW?

Mild decompression, but decompression all the same. Yay.

Also yay sim brackets.

No, should be the same vehicle. would be wierd to have 1x at 10.0 with nerfed Starstreaks.

Already got the Stormer AD for 10.0 as well.

We could get a later Stormer HVM or a major buff for the current Stormer HVM if it could take a mix of Starstreaks and LMM

1 Like

This shit could be 7.0 it’s stats would still be the same, it’s an undertiered vehicule played by crayon eaters only, your dman stats are worthless.

What is your source to the reload changes ? KV 2 unrealistic 21 secs ? it should be closer to 35-40 seconds, so even now they reload faster than they should… but you do the silliest thing and cut it in half the real values… T29 change source ? If you go through this change, can I have please my money back for the T29 ? I paid for different vehicle with the characteristics she has now.

3 Likes

I think you meant 12.7 → 13.0 not 12.0?

I hate to say this, but premium lorries are often bought by beginners and often have unusually poor results. This is especially true for the Soviet Union.

@Smin1080p_WT Could you comment on the F-104s.ASA. I dont see how its ever going to have the chance at being moved down as not enough players play it to get stats on it. So is there anyway to see it moved down at all or is it stuck in purgatory?

thats why I hard lock targets locker than I normally would, defeats the whole purpose of it being an ARH but hey at least you have almost a dozen 50G missiles xD

It has issues that could and should be resolved to make it more competitive. Especially since all others got access to the ACLOS and the Stormer HVM didnt.

Even something as simple as removing the tracers from the Starstreaks so pilots couldnt easily see them from miles away and dodge them would help a LOT

F-14B should receive its AIM 9M

1 Like

Its same for every nation, and gaijin balances by statistics. Besides 2S38 is indeed nothing special to write home about. Sure HE-VT with IRST lock,thats good, APFSDS is ok, have bad spall cause sub 75 mm, and you can just oneshot 2S38 basically anywhere.

don’t forget player stats and the absolutely arse matchmaker at high BRs

as an (ARB) example, for the last month the british eurofighter had a winrate of 61.2%, with a KpS of .95 and KpD of 1.27

the italian eurofighter had a winrate of 46.5%, with a KpS of .85 and KpD of 1.09

15% difference in winrate between identical aircraft, why?

I feel like these (and to an extent previous) BR changes miss a key point:

The goal of balancing is not balance itself, it’s enjoyable game experience for the players. That’s why, when balancing unpopular and rarely played vehicles it’s better to err on the side of high performance - them being rare means any negative impact of overtuning will be minimal since people just don’t face them often enough, and high performance will attract more players to them, which will produce more comprehensive data.

Instead what happens is a death spiral of nerfs where the more unpopular a vehicle is, the greater proportion of its players are those able and determined to make it work regardless, the more biased the data gets, the more unpopular vehicle becomes after further nerfs, and so on in a loop.

Edit. Also, breaking up popular lineups should be done with extreme caution, since that can detract from how fun the game is much more than a minor balance adjustment could help. As things stand, a lot of these BR changes feel self-destructive.

1 Like

Yeah, but then it would be impossible to guide it without thermals. they would either have to give us thermals stock or make the tracer only visible to us.

Neither of which I think is necessarily a bad idea. or just reduce the size of the tracer by 50%. Would make it a lot harder for pilots to see but should still be perfectly visible without TVD

Either way. 3 spinning 76mm tracers can be seen from miles away

Depends on team composition and players. One side might have gotten more Su-30s or Rafales who knows, when i played yday, friend had Su-30i had Rafale,there was entire team of 30s we were in, then like three Rafales and that was it, enemy had different mix.