Softstat change suggestions: GRB Pz III Ausf.F and J, Pz.Sp.Wg. P204(f) KwK 38
5 cm KwK 38 L/42 Aced Max Crew Reload Speed of currently 4.0 Sec lowering to 3.0 or 3.3 Seconds (the fastest). It is a good/mediocre gun, with good Penetration (80mm) at relatively low Velocity (685m/s), but even the fastest reload is 4.0 Seconds. For comparisson the other guns of similar Performance and size have much faster reloads with, including 1 and 2 men turrets, while the 5 cm KwK 38 L/42 (on Pz III Ausf.F and J as well as Pz.Sp.Wg. P204(f) KwK), it also has a Dedicated loader (and on the Pz III Ausf.J even nerfed by a Ready rack):
37mm M3/M5/M6 guns 2.9 Sec
75mm M2 3.3 Sec
45mm 20-K 2.9 sec (on T-80 even 2.5 sec)
76,2 mm 1902/30 4.3 sec
4 cm QF 2 pdr 2.8 sec
4,7 cm QF 3 pdr 3.0 sec
5,7 cm Type 97 3.3 sec
4,7 cm Type 1 3.3 sec
4 cm MAVAG 41.M 40/51 2.8 sec
4,7 cm 47/32 2.9-3.0 sec
4,7 cm 47/40 3.3 sec
4,7 cm SA 35 L/32 3.0 Sec (with Dedicated loader, without 4.0 sec (1 man turret))
4,7 cm SA 37 3.0 sec
T18E2 RGB 3.0 → 3.7/4.0 It has more armor, a stronger gun and comparable Speed and cant be easily destroyed with even HMGs and lighter cannons, it has so much armor with angle that frontally some cant penetrate it at all (like the italian guns), compared to the Sd.Kfz.234/2 which allready sits at 3.7, which has only 30mm (angled) armor, with the rest only 8-14,5mm and a weaker gun.
Panzer IV Ausf.E GRB 2.0 → 1.7 It is basically in between the Pz IV Ausf. C and F1, tho at the same Br as F1, even tho it only has mere 30mm frontal turret armor, and mostly 20mm side and back armor. While it has 10mm more Frontal hull protection, however that has holes with just 30mm. There isnt really a reason to play the E over the F1, as you cant even properly angle, because of the 20mm side, which can even be penetrated by relatively more powerfull 37mm guns.
45mm unhistoric APHE it never used in battle, zero dispersion, zero recoil, zero skill needed, perfect fuse for shooting planes too, doesn’t overheat in a max rate turn like IRL (it was a TERRIBLE CAS plane IRL), meanwhile in game, perfect plane with often 6 kills per ammo load, absolutely destroyed German WR from BR3-5.
But you can see this on the statistics and will do nothing as usual, like the PE-8, Like the SKR-7 etc etc etc.
Bf 110 C-6 GRB (Not Air) 3.0 → 2.3 Reason: The better C-7 is 2.7 which is better because: Armored glass, can carry bombs and has 2x 20mm Mg FF/M and faster while the C-6 cant have bombs has no 20mm and is fixed with the 30mm Mk 101. In comparison the Hs 129 B-2 which is also at 2.3 has more armor, 2x 20mm Mg 151/20 and 2x Mg 17 (instead of 4x Mg 17) and a Mk 103 with 100 instead of 60 rounds and higher fire rate. It overall exchanges most of it offencive firepower for a better flightperformance.
Hs 129 B-2 GRB (Mainly Ground) 2.3 → 2.0 while the Offencive Firepower is good, it has no defencive armarment and is quite slow with usually 250-300 km/h, especially in an uptier to 3.3 the power increase to other planes is extreme and the Hs 129 cant even escape, escaping from Biplanes (like the russian ones) is even complicated).
Do 217 J-2 (Ground and Air) 2.3 → 2.0 it is simply a J-1 (2.0) with the only difference beeing having an useless radar and changing the camo from black to white with black spots.
Add OFL105F2 or OFL105G2, and increase the cannon loading time to 7.8S/6.4S/6S (loading time limited to BR10.7)
The mobility, protection, and flexibility of VEXTRA105 far exceed those of similar MGS in the vicinity of BR. It should receive better ammunition to enhance BR, increasing BR to 10+, which is more conducive to the future Dutch Army joining the French ground technology tree and forming the best partner with the Leopard 2A4 provided by the Netherlands
Do 217 N-1 (Ground and Air) 2.7 → 2.3 it is a Do 217 J with radar a little bit stronger (but also heavyer) engines (1430 hp to 1580 (150hp more)), changes the 20mm Mg FF/M to Mg 151/20 which are also heavyer (but fire the same rounds and) and has on paper a tiny little improvement in climp (5,9 to 6,8 (0,9 more) and such but because its also a good tat heavyer flyes even worse.
Same goes for N-2 2.7 → 2.3 its even worse as it changes the (useless anyway) small bombload and the 2x only def 13mm Mg 131 for 4x 20mm Mg 151/20 in Schrägemusik position which really is only dead weight and also changes once again the camo from Black to White with black spots.
God the Do-217s are sad lmao, I avoid them like the plague, useless planes, slow, over-br’d I have no idea why they are where they are and why the eff ther eis one all the way up at like BR4? It’s a BR2 plane lmao.
Ju 87 D-5 (Ground, not shure About air) 3.3 → 2.3 It has worse bomb load than the D-3 (no 1000kg bomb, and less 500 kg loadouts (no 3x 500kg bomb loadout), while also the flightperformance doesnt change and the very aquivalent plane, the Il 2 Mod. 1941 with 2x 20mm Shvak and 2x Shkas is at 2.3 (while also having a wider arrangement of explosives, such as Bombs and rockets) And even the mod 1942 sits at 3.0
The Spitfire F MK 22 could use a decrease to 6.0. It worse than the Spitfire F MK 24 in every aspect at the same br. Would also allow Great Britain to participate in the 6.3 meta br match making.
StuG III Ausf. A: 2.3 → 2.0: The Pz IV Ausf. F1 has full 50mm frontal armor like the StuG III Ausf. A in general the average thick armor at 2.0-2.3 is 50mm but for the main drawbacks the StuG III Ausf. A can be placed at 2.0 for greater line ups, as well as to avoid the big Power increase at 3.3 (M4A1, T-34 and Pz IV Ausf. F2) where also the StuG III Ausf. F is.
It also doesnt have a turret, but also duo to extremly outdated and wrong armor model (missing plates and incorrect plates) it had very big weakspots.
No idea why you guys are trying to put it up in GRB (looking at your laser Yak-9K getting 6 kills per game just fine though without any ‘balancing’…) just you can’t catch it as easily if you don’t have energy advantage. Right now it can barely turn out of a dive with 1 of 3 bombs dropped, even a Red Angel did this to me (so realistic). The FM is a bit broken.
You should actually listen to the playerbase and increase the BR in Air RB where it is ridiculously OP and everyone complains.
GRB you can get it to RTB with a single 7.62 that makes both engines orange and it slow down to Japanese BR6 fighter speed (or BR4 for normal nations).
Air RB Saab J35XS >10.7, to match F-5C, which is a better dogfighter from better energy retention and guns, also appropriate from the past nerfs to the Draken’s flight model. The F-5C has a 60% higher kill per battle ratio and a 57.7% higher kill/death ratio, and has 60 countermeasures and RWR; the J35XS has no RWR, and only 12 countermeasures. Both jets have roughly the same battles played recently, representing the relatively large margin of performance between the two jets. If the Saab J35XS does not go down to match the F-5C, a jet out performing the Draken at the higher BR of 11.3, the F-5C (and F-5A because same flight model) should be at the same BR to aid in the balancing of up-tiers, and down-tiers.
Maneuver. The power-to-weight ratio is only 17.33, and the top speed is only 55 kilometers per hour, which makes the transition ability very poor. Compared with other Cold War tanks, it is difficult to keep up with the pace of large forces
Miscellaneous. The reverse speed is only 7.8 km/h, and it is difficult to retreat to cover. The speed of the steering machine is only 18 degrees per second at full level, which is difficult to cope with multiple targets. The high and low planes are only five degrees per second, and the depression angle is only negative five degrees, making it difficult to fight in mountainous terrain with complex terrain. The vehicle’s gunscope is only seven times larger, making it impossible to fight from a distance.
Protection. The side of the PTZ89 can be easily pierced by a .50 heavy machine gun. Light tanks and anti-aircraft vehicles of the same weight can easily penetrate its front. The ability to protect is very worrying.
Firepower. This is the only advantage of PTZ89, but the weight is removed from 9.0, and this advantage will no longer exist, because the penetration depth of the 9.3 weight T72A 3BM22 is also very good, and the 9.0 PTZ89 will be useless.