Request to Review and Restore the BR of the F-14B

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Hello War Thunder Development Team and Community,

After extensive gameplay experience and statistical observation, many players — including myself — believe that the current Battle Rating of the F-14B (13.0 in Air RB) is too high for its actual in-game performance.
For this reason, we kindly request that its BR be reviewed and potentially reduced back to 12.7, or to a more appropriate value.

Reasons for this request:

  1. Matchmaking Issues:
    At BR 13.0, the F-14B frequently faces opponents with superior radar systems, defensive suites, and missile capabilities, which significantly limits its effectiveness in most engagements.

  2. Performance Data:
    Based on player experience and available statistics (K/D ratio, win rate, overall efficiency), the F-14B tends to perform worse than other jets at the same BR level.
    If needed, we can provide additional data or video examples to support this point.

  3. Decreased Usage and Gameplay Diversity:
    Since the BR increase, fewer players choose the F-14B, which negatively impacts variety in top-tier gameplay and reduces the presence of aircraft that previously helped maintain balanced matches.

We fully respect the development team’s efforts to maintain fair and healthy game balance, and we kindly ask that the BR of the F-14B be reconsidered in a future review.

Thank you for your time and attention.
Looking forward to your feedback.

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Current state of F-14B aside, surely it would be easy to throw in some numbers or voting poll results, if thats true, no? ;)

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Also, the nerf to Fakur 90

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F-14B just needs AIM-9M

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im incompletely agree

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Well, I guess I’ll just have to bet on 14D. Though it probably won’t come anytime soon… For now, let’s hope for improvements to the 14B environment.

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only if F-14A goes to 12.3 or gets 9L

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If anything it’s due for a buff when the Aim-54s do.

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The F-14A is already treading a very very fine line being 12.7. But the F-14B has none of the same deficits that the F-14A has, so no. It should not go down.

IR buffs. Maybe, but the typical 13.0 ARH slinger like the Viggen DI, does not have IRCCM.

Harriers are subsonic, so its a counter-active buff for them and the F3 Late/ICE should be 13.3 but cant due to compression.

Id personally start with BOL overhaul to buff the F-14B. Would also be a good buff for the Viggen DI and FA2 as well, other aircraft not that hot at the moment

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Except that its not even a contest with the 54s vs AIM-120s.

The AIM-54 is and has always been just a attention check of a missile, it is a non-threat to anyone with a functioning motor cortex.

Is this AIM-54 buff in the room with us now? I’ve pretty much given up on expecting such, there has been minor tweaks here and there but thats it for years now.

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