Planned Battle Rating changes for the month of October

I say create the gap, not reduce it

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Vautour IIN (IAF) Addition of Shafrir-2 AAM
Being a 9.0 “Bomber” with no airspawn, it is basically useless in battle, you don’t have a noticeable speed advantage, the handling is horrible and the bomb payload is sub optimal (Can’t even destroy two bases). The addition of those missiles will help the aircraft become relevant again with the removal of the airspawn. (I lost the link to the report that was accepted regarding the lack of this missile on the Vautour)

Merkava 3 Bet Baz (Merkava 3C) and Merkava 3 Dor Dalet should get their proper thermal sight
Both of these variants of the Merkava 3 are missing the Baz fire control system which offers them gen 2/3 thermals (Same as Merkava 4). Being at 11.0 with Generation 1 thermals is really bad for vehicles with so little protection that rely on their firepower. (Report that has been passed to the developers: Community Bug Reporting System )

T-10A should recieve better ammunition
The T-10A is essentially an IS-3 with very minor upgrades and a single axis low speed stabilizer. It really struggles at 7.7, especially taking into account its armament (122mm D-25TS) gun with only BR/OF-471 rounds. These rounds, essentially from 7.7 onwards are really weak penetration wise, having only 205mm of flat penetration they struggle to penetrate many vehicles.
It could get the 3BM-7 APDS or 3BK-10 shells to compensate for the underpowered gun

F-100D (France) 9.3 → 9.0
One of the worst F-100 airframes that also only has AIM-9B. At 9.3 it is just food for other aircraft at the same battle rating and especially suffers in uptiers facing all aspect missiles and aircraft that can just run circles around it.

AUBL/74 HVG Addition of OTO HE-VT Shell
Since it is at such a high battle rating, I don’t see a reason why it shouldn’t have access to the HE-VT shell since it wouldn’t affect its performance much. The WZ305 also has proximity Fuze shells at the same battle rating.

VK 45.01 5.3 → 5.0
Despite it being a tiger with 100mm of armor, you are unable to angle it because of the hull cheeks. It also has worse mobility than the regular tigers and significantly worse turret traverse. At 5.0 there is the KV-1C that has more frontal armor and the ability to angle with a weaker gun. The VK 45.01 can be penetrated by any gun at its battle rating frontally without much difficulty (Even the american 75mm gun can penetrate it with APCR flat on and APHE if it is angled)

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Don’t remove the HE round. Don’t treat players like idiots who don’t know when to use HE rounds >_>

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the worst thing they did is bring AH64DJP to 11.0 with lack of self-defend system unlike other AH64

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-Revert all the SPAA BR increases; Stop over-tiering every SPAA that’s marginally effective against planes. If they’re too good against tanks then nerf the AP belts.

-Revert the M26 increases, they’re simply not good enough to deserve them and the existing 6.7 Heavy Pershings make the M26 obsolete.

-With the Tiger 2 (P) getting a well deserved increase to 6.7, it’s time to finally move the Tiger 2 (H) up to 7.0. Almost the entirely of German 6.3 and 6.7 could realistically go up a BR.

-Tiger 1 and Panther increases are great but the Panther D and VK should also be moving up.

-Centauro/Type 16 (All variants you listed) 9.0/9.3 → 10.0/10.3. Increases are also great, but don’t go far enough; They’re still comically overpowered against the majority of the 8.X BR range. Put them at a BR where they don’t definitively outgun every MBT alongside outrunning them.

-Object 279 8.7 → 9.3; It is also comically overpowered against the majority of the 8.X BR range. It’d be weaker in uptiers but that’s better for the game’s health than it continuing to dominate at 8.7. Really decompression is needed.

-CV9030FIN 9.3 → 8.7. The gun is largely ineffective against anything actually paying attention due to the middling penetration, poor ROF and awful damage whilst it also has abysmal survivability owing to the large ammo belt. Mobility is fine but doesn’t mean anything when you can’t kill anything when you get into position. The 2nd Gen thermals for both CITV and Gunner are the only real advantage it has, making it effectively a fat Wiesel 1A4. A CV9035 would probably be more appropriate for 9.3.

-Strf9040C and Lvkv9040C 10.0 → 9.7. The new round on the Strf is good but doesn’t let the vehicle do much it can’t already do with the “weaker” round, the Lvkv also doesn’t get this new round. The additional armour on both offers protection against HMGs and maybe distant 20mm fire, but is functionally useless against all the larger guns and missiles the vehicles actually fight; Ultimately it’s all dead weight.

-Churchill NA75 4.3 → 3.7. It’s a Churchill III with the Sherman’s 75mm. However it lacks the Sherman’s mobility, so cannot flank or retreat from heavy opponents the gun can’t pen, lacks APCR to deal with said heavy opponents frontally, lacks a stabilizer, lacks the Sherman’s survivability and even the frontal armour of later variants and even lacks a .50cal. No compelling reason to use it over the Sherman II.

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There was a gap before.

Literally all this has done is made that gap less meaningful.

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ZTZ88B and ZTZ88A are going to 9.0, Why?

They are realistically a sidegrade to the T55AM-1 and T55AMD, and all putting them up does is make them go into the 10.0 black hole.

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When are we getting 12.3 for Ground RB tho???

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French F100D can carry zuni rocket that can works as flares so well so, should stay at 9.3BR.

Having same BR with F86K and Hunter F.1 is joke.

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USSR Obj 279 suggest to BR 9.0. It is too much OP in 8.7 BR. Very hard to destroy and easy to kill enemy.
KV220 suggest go to 6.0, It is too much OP in 5.7.Very hard to destroy .
Tiger II (P) 6.3 to 6.7 , but why Tiger II (H) still in 6.7? Pls make a difference.

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The Tiger II (H) will probably move to 7.0 but the M26 can easily play at the same BR as the Tiger II (H).
Remember the T-44 is 6.7 as well and the M26 has a very potent APCR round that can easily knock out a Tiger II.

the tiger 2h shouldnt move up as it belongs to fight ww2 vehicles not cold war ones, it sits fine at 6.7, same goes for the lovely panther 2 and 10.5 tigor :) now if one complains about these being to difficult to fight, then its shrimply a skill issue on your part

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I agree, I just tried to be very modest…

This is impossible given that the reason the T-10M has BR-472, APDS and HEAT-FS is specifically because it has a new cannon that is way more powerful than the D-25.

So you’ve basically asking for the T-10A to… turn into a T-10M…

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Because Gaijin
But the gap wasn’t wide enough in all cases: AMX-13, Pbv 301, M41, Jpz 4-5 and others are no match for World War II tanks, good or bad.

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but the point is to seperate ww2 vehicles from cold war if tiger goes 7.0 it sees more cold war vehicles which gaijin previously said they trying to seperate so we dont eat heat or rockets 24/7 the tiger2h m26,t44 all play perfectly at 6.7 and now with addition to is2 moving to 6.7 russia might be comp at 6.7 again

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Zuni are very heavy and the F-100D has the 2nd worst flight model (worst being the F-100F by a tiny bit).
Carrying Zunis will make you a flying brick

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If Panthers and Tigers are moving up, so will the M26. The M26 is way more effective.

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The secret tid bit is that Gaijin could just not move that stuff because I find those BRs to be honestly fine.

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the tigers aint moving up, panther A-G goes 6.0 and tiger E 6.0 from 5.7 the king tiger 2p is the only one moving to 6.7 from 6.3 which is good