Planned Battle Rating Changes (October 2026) — Aircraft and Ground Vehicle Decompression

The ASSTA1 has already been upgraded to the ASSTA3

Hey.
Are you going to lower the BR of F/A-18C Early to 12.3 in the upcoming update?

Why would they?

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cuz it’s not fair in it’s current BR
it mostly gets up tiered versus air crafts that have fox-3 missiles while it doesn’t.

I’m simply trying to make an argument that in order to decompress you gotta add more to do. Rank 7 is… I guess it’s fine for Germany, but leaves something to be desired. Rank 8 has only 5 planes not counting premiums… ehhhh… that’s not to mention that right now you have gaps, holes even - I’m talking jumps from 11.0 straight to 14.0, that’s ridiculous.

F-4F (11.0) → F-4F KWS LV (13.0) → EF-2000 (14.3)
Tornado IDS ASSTA1 (11.3) → Tornado IDS SLE (12.3)
F-5E (11.0) → F/A-18C Late (14.0)
…and they’re also decompressing it? Really?

Oh right i remember you

I advise you to learn how to play it first before suggesting BR change, moreso now that MK2/MKK go up

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Aww the good old gitgud trolls, very creative and helpful as ever. 😄
Same people who are advising high altitude fighting with Sparrows versus Fox-3 missiles.
Quite a fan too, tracking my every activity on this platform.
Thank you for chiming in, we really needed to hear your opinion. ✅

the A-5C does have higher RP gain
which oculd also just be another factor to why BRs get changed
the fact that the A-5 is going up is insane though, considering it will be higher than the J-7D
but don’t get angry at me or anything
i’m just parsing what info i know
the developers are the ones you should direct your complaints to if anyone
because i’m not defending terrible decisions made by them

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In that thread i clearly demonstrated i did better at high alt than you do with whatever youre doing.

As long as people will have uneducated takes, i will keep being loud.

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another russian premium biased (mostly 10.3) changes
thats crazy turms-t stays on 10.3 while tanks like merkava 2d, ttd or amx40 goes up

gonna be perfect line up with yak130 and the israeli ayit gonna be useless now
also eitan that should be on 10.7 getting uptierd to 11.7 xDDDD

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You’re also the one who brings up personal skill when it’s convenient, in a 16v16 objective game where personal skill is largely irrelevant due to how big the battles are…

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This is a cope and completely false lol. If this was true skilled players would not have winrates averaging 70-90% while average ones usually have winrates that match that nation’s winrate at around 40-50%. A good player can absolutely influence the outcome of a match.

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Since March 22 im sitting at winrate of 58% and KD of 2.96 over 293 battles with 18C early. All those games were in post Mk2/MKk matchmaker.

You want to imply that over such large sample size, this is entirely luck?

Well yea because otherwise you have people with sub 1 KD on MK2/MKK saying its too weak to go up lol.

Self reflection can do wonders.

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Oops I replied to the wrong post, not sure how to change that

I’m not scared to admit that I’m a 0.5 KD “no-skill” but that doesn’t exclude me from the game’s discussion, I like to fly planes and I’d like to have a fair fighting chance. I’m also somewhat of a jet plane nerd (thanks autism). That’s all there is to it.

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Having ATGM-only vehicles (M113 platform and equivalent) sitting in Arcade in 8.0-9.0 is hilarious. They are absolute crap. It’s about time you move them down to 6.0-7.0 at most. I wonder what stats Gaijin has been handling to consider that CM25 and T58 must both sit at 8.7 (well, T58 is moving to 9.0, but regardless, T58 was just the most atrocious example that came to mind).

as always gaijin have no clue about their own game
for example kurnass 2000 on cas going up to 12.7, it will be higher than f16 su39 etc
it can carry 6x 65d with no thermal and thats it or 2 shitty 0.6 cruise missile with 15kg of explosives
next example is turms-t staying on 10.3 while amx40, ttd, merkava 2d etc. going up to 10.3, thats the same for gaijin
eitan p gonna be on 11.7, thats 1:1 Boxer CRV but on +1.0 br higher for no reason, probably worst vehicle in the game

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It doesnt, I absolutely agree with that.

But if person A is deadset on claiming that 18C early is bad plane and has sub 1 KD on it while person B says its fine and has KD of nearly 3 with it, should person A either

a) ask himself “is there a possibility i am doing something wrong” or
b) call everyone stupid because he possibly cant be doing something wrong

?

At the end of the day, “skill” translates to how well person understands something. Thats really all there is to it.

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Don’t forget, these same people with their humongous egos tend to get those personal high ratings by playing a very niche vehicle sets and pray upon other unbalanced vehicles such as the F/A-18C Early, that’s why they’re so devoted to gaslighting people online about the balancing situation of these vehicles because they know they’ve got no shot in real challenges thereby their numbers will go down if they face a real challenge and their ego following it.

I won’t deny that your stats are impressive, and I play with a friend regularly who has these stats:
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…and also teaches me.

You clearly understand the game at a level I don’t yet. But here’s the thing: just because you can make the plane work, doesn’t automatically mean the plane is objectively on par with its competitors (i.e. survivorship bias). I’m not saying F/A-18C is unplayable. I’m saying that for an average or below average player like me, going against planes with better tools means I have to work 10x harder just to break even. Some planes just sit at BRs where they are objectively outclassed.

Cue about a month or so back where I was trying to farm the F-16XL event… in a Tornado IDS WTD61, and bemoaning how bad it was. I was doing everything I was told, but the fact was - I was getting shoved against SARH missiles I could barely dodge with a 3-9 because the plane turns like a bus…

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