I don’t think using 3.66 should make any difference, using 3.7 then BR goes to 3.35. That should be the same as 3.33. If it is rounded up, shouldn’t anything above 3.3 and below 3.7 goes to 3.7?
If the result is exactly 3.33(3) then there is no rounding up, because you are already at specific BR step, so there is nothing to round here. If you had 3.33(3) + 0.(0)1 then rounding this value up would put you at whole 1 BR step higher. But this 3.33(3) is like the last value that is not rounded up, because it’s equal to the BR step. You are rounding to the nearest BR step. In War Thunder, BR steps are probably implemented like this: 1.0, 1.33(3), 1.66(6), 2.0, 2.33(3)… This would explain why rounding in the new system works the way it does.
I think it would be easier to understand this with natural numbers. Let’s say the BR steps are 1, 2, 3, 4. If the math says something is exactly 1, you don’t round it up to 2, because 1 is already a BR step. You only round up if the value is not equal to the BR step.
I’m not a native English speaker, so sorry if something is unclear.
I’m with you guys. This doesn’t help anything. At all.
Downtiering is still possible so you’ll still get that one Bf 109, MIG-21 or Harrier at +1.3 that players complain about.
I went through my presets and deleted all the downtiered lineups, then started with a clean slate to see which semi-decent lineups I could build now. Not many.
The only thing this now rule has accomplished is making me play some nations (like Israel) a lot less from now and I’ll be doing a lot more one-death-leaving with whatever plane I’m spading.
There are no upsides to this new rule; it’s just bad all the way down.
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So I just had an AB air game with a lineup around ITP (M-1), instead of one 4.3 plane I just used max 4.0 to downtier it to 4.3… didn’t even need another plane, 17 air kills plus survivor… the system is still pretty much the same , if you know how to downtier, though there’s nothing ‘simplified’ about it…
Quite often I see new players now that would have been downtiered before but aren’t any more, and probably don’t even know about the possibility to downtier.
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They will learn over time. But right now it’s a huge advantage to use one strong plane + one reserve plane. I’m not as good player as you are, but I can get around 10 kills without dying, using this new system.
I must point out that my playstyle is mainly based on surviving battles (or at least not die too much). So I play differently than most players. We have to see how many players will start doing the same.
Technically, this new system prevents players from using the old META lineups, e.g. 4.0 + 3.7 + 3.3 BR. With my playstyle, this new system fits me better, because less players should use higher BR planes in battles. If someone dies a lot, it probably makes more sense to use full 4.0 BR lineup now.
Hi, I would like to ask how things are with the BR tank. They play on BR 1.7, but sometimes I see players who have tanks on BR 2.3. That’s a bit unbalanced. Thanks for the information.
Tanks is simple, both in AB and RB the BR of your lineup is the BR of your highest rated tank, and you go up agianst lineups +/- 1.0 difference from your lineup.
This thread is about planes in air AB where under certain conditions you can downtier your plane, like, have a single 3.7 plane in a 3.3 lineup.
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That’s disappointing for a couple of reasons, first because it’s not a bug, and second apparently the Russian wiki is the definitive document!
Yep - it’s changed the meta and actually made it WORSE… seems to be a Gaijin trope!