BR ratings drove me insane. For years I was under the delusion that the BR you see in the hangar just below the Battle Button was some kind of rating for the ARENA you were flying into. Only today. years and so many frustrating hours of gameplay late did it finally click. That number is MY BR rating for MY line up of planes in my preset.
Having learned also that Gaigiin does not control the BR of the planes administratively. It is not even controlled by an algorythm. It is controlled by an AI. And about the only thing the AI looks at is how it’s performance stats IN GAME compare out.
That is where the fantasy in War Thunder comes in. You can indeed have a top tier Japanes plane that never saw combat after World War Two, most of them had been scrapped, yet in War Thunder you face the reality of having to fight first generation Jet Fighters that flew combat in the Korean War.
With all of the above it isn’t absolutely divorced from history. It ACCURATELY reflects the historical quality of the Japanese airplane designs.
What is sad is that we players will never enjoy flying those planes with their historical advantages. Instead the Players flying the Japanese planes will be “play balanced” into having the higher BR rating by the AI.
But it is very intersting that the NiK2 fighter is so high in it’s quality as shown by in game performance when players use it, that it has the fighting power of JETS.
From this perspective I think, finally, after years of maddening game play. I will be able to enjoy the game for what it is.
If you click on the BR tab just below the BATTLE button you can find a link to Gaigiins write up where they explain the BR Rating. Even reading that I missed that there is NO BR rating of ARENAs the BR is just for your vehicles, planes ships tanks etc. And it is only measured by how well the things are performing in the hands of the players.
Now I might be wrong on exactly where that write up is. But it is available from the Hangar near that Battle/Ready Button. It is the interface where you can choose whether to fly in Arcade, Realistic and Simulator modes. The link is in the lower left.
I am going out doors to touch grass and do some needed chores and wallow in my own ineptitude.
I think you have missunderstood the matchmaker, there is indeed a sort of BR for the “arena”. But it isn’t just one set BR, it’s a range. so if you queue up with a lineup of BR 10.0 you can face other vehicles that are between 9.0-11.0 with a majority of the vehicles you face being 10.0 a majority of the time. Sometimes you are unlucky and get “uptiered” where you are on the lower end of that range and sometimes you get lucky and get “downtiered” and are at the higher end of that range.
They claim it is. There have been examples where it has learned. Even so, it’s a great dodge to say to complainers, WE DIDNT DO IT! The 8yr old AI did it!
Although the method of determining and correcting BR is mediocre and heavily flawed, I have never seen anybody stating it is an AI which makes such decisions. According to my knowledge, it is an algorithm/formula, not AI; the solution given by this algorithm is interpreted and decided upon by developers. The importance of this is as follows: this decision is deterministic and formulaic, and there is no error possible as would be frequently made by an AI. Of course, the formula is terrible, but that is a different matter.