Are you also tired of getting brutalised in your stock aircraft by other aircraft that are better than you in every way? Are you tired of teamates outspeeding you and getting to cap rounds faster than you in ground? Are you tired of non penning ships because your stock SAP or HE round can’t pen the armour of the enemy?
Here’s a simple solution. Implement a difference between stock and spaded vehiciles in game.Take for example the biggest example I can think of. The difference between the Buccaneer S.2 and S.2B
Same engines. Same bomb load. 1.4 BR difference. The difference when stock? 2 AIM-9G’s found on plenty of 9.7 aircraft and 30 large flares. Why? When it’s spaded sure the S.2B gets a pair of AIM-9L but what’s the use when it’s a tier 3 mod and you have to get through 3 mods totalling 43,000rp?
At 10.7 and in a full uptier to 11.7 you meet aircraft like the A-10C, F-5E, F-111F, Tornado, MiG-23MLD, Su-25T and SM3, Su-24. MiG-27, J-7E and D, JA37C all of which are either faster than you or better armed or has a bigger bomb load.
less of change BR for stock grind as you can abuse the hell out of only one modification to make a super downtier kinda thing and more make stock grinds less crap
Well for some vehicles the difference between stock and spaded is massive. Take HMS Vanguard for example. 15 inch SAP is worse than 8 inch SAP in terms of pen. Then look at the SC shell. Over 700mm of pen. It should work on a specific modification basis. Like the 9L mod for the Bucc.
I’d rather gaijin make stock grinds better, by giving all armament/flares/chaff/new boosters/G-suit stock. It’ll be a lot simpler and allow for less abuse.
Anyone who doesn’t want that is just siding with Gaijin on an explicitly anti-player progression system.
I agree. Such basics are so fundamental from a real world perspective that the fact that they aren’t considered stock (especially g-suits) is just plain bizarre.
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move critical mods down 1 tier. Too many are locked at T3 & T4 and take too long to acquire
Increase the available kit for stock vehicles. Aircraft especially, but they all suffer for example giving Rank 6+ BBs AP shells stock or giving top tier MBTs better shells stock.
For aircraft, better or more consistant distribution of AAMs would be a big boost, aircraft like the FGR2 I think still have 2x Aim-9D stock which is insane and the Jags get nothing stock. Not even some 540lb bombs.
Until you have a T4 mod researched (not necessarily purchased to avoid exploitation) or perhaps after so many matches (again to avoid exploitation) you should be limited in what uptiers you can face (doesnt help much for top tier, but does for every other BR) So for a limited window you would mostly see downtiers. You could reduce the BR for a limited window, but some are deadly even when stock, like the Spitfires for example, and so could be rather unfair, but if uptiers were restricted, youd at least face the aircraft more appropriate for your stock loadout.
The Buc S2B is definetly one of those cases of needing an introuction of Dynamic BRs. Because you are right, its only 10.7 due to having 9Ls that you may not actually take. Would be nice to have a choice prior to queuing whether I want to use them or not. If not, it can be 9.7 with 9Gs. Id play it a lot if I had that choice. Especially in ASB, but I dont think it should be tied to the stock grind specifically, but rather some future dynamic BR system which may inturn then allow for it to be a lower BR when stock
Stock grinding the 14.0 hornet was miserable, only having 2 bvr missiles sucks major ass. Missile count is extremely important for how the 16v16 circus is played and thats why the su30sm even with a FM mogged by most 14.0 planes stays plenty competitive due to the sheer number it gets. It can afford to just rip off missiles and force people to go defensive even if the launch has almost no chance of hitting. Doing that in a stock jet throws away half your missiles.
And at least russian jets get access to fox 1 missiles early in the grind that are at least relevant at 14.0, sparrows are just sad at 14.0. When I got the aim120 racks finally researched it was like I was playing an entirely different plane.
No I enjoy outspeeding my team mates, I can sometimes get there faster even without many upgrades, simply because I choose nations that have speedy tanks, while all my team mates are Tiger (E) or IS-2. You snooze you lose.
Yeah mods that make you better and unfairly increases the BR to above what capability would dictate. It’s not rocket science to understand “better missiles increase BR”
Changing munitions between the ones you have unlocked yeah.
I can think of some vehicles that need it - the difference between the M247 with HE-VT rounds and those without is very substantial. Its entire BR relies on having that HE-VT round which is a rank IV modification.
If done correctly (easier said than done) - the removal of the modification will render the vehicle to be equivalent in performance to the lower BR, so there is no real benefit to be had, either way. It’s not something like removing the useless booster modification from a jet and then going down a BR. And it would have to account for other things such as flight performance - speed, etc, not just weapons.
Having BRs dynamically change per player based on what modifications they have unlocked and not unlocked would screw with matchmaking to a level that I don’t think people are taking in to consideration.