99% of British Vehicles need buffs. Thats why. Gripen is the first aircraft we’ve had in what, 5 or 6 years that isn’t totally DOA.
And even then it has massive handicaps, No BVR, just got its placeholder replaced and still waiting on them to fix BOL.
But all our other aircraft are typically added in such a buggy/broken state that they are essentially unplayable for 3-9 months.
Gr7, plenty of bugs there
Tornado, still not fixed or even remotely finished
Sea harrier took 9 months for placeholder parts to be fixed (and still waiting on the cockpit HUD to be finished)
and even old stuff just had SRAAM do this
I am fully expecting that the Typhoon will need to be buffed up to IRL levels, with huge numbers of missing features and not the other way round. To me, Gripen was simply a victim of being rushed onto live before it was even remotely finished and it being a turn fighter fighting against mostly BVR trucks and thus doing well.
But after constant nerfs from Gaijin for British vehicles, like BOL (which has killed the Gr7 and F3) or the constant nerfs for the Chally 2. I’ve developed a healthy amount of paranoia and simply challenge all nerfs. If the nerfs are justified then in defending yourself, you’ve only made your reports all the stronger and thus the game better. But we dont want things like “Aluminium back plates” for the Gripen, or Typhoon, or FA2