And to add onto this.
You’ve basically only said Russia shouldn’t of got SPAA that’s good at what it’s designed too do, but let’s think. Maybe Russia wouldn’t of gotten it if CAS across the table wasn’t being scaled up to a level that was becoming harder to deal with. So it shouldn’t of been a surprise the Pantisr S-1 was added, then got overshadowed as CAS kept getting more stuff.
If you never wanted the Pantsirs, CAS should of equally never of been able to carry certain weapons, or take certain loadouts that always left SPAA at a disadvantage. This is literally the average CAS player right now. They want more and MORE stuff and then don’t expect more modern iterations for ground to be added to make up for it.
And the reality is that Gaijin isn’t going to buffer the game at a holding point because for example, Russia has a SAm system that the west doesn’t have to equal proportions for intercepting munitions. If WarThunder players are going to be childish and scream “that’s not fair” because of doctorine. Then CAS should of been held back to reflect that change until maps were adjusted to bring the advantages the normal SAMS would have along with the Pantsir systems. 2 systems that are powerful in their own respective departments.
Another good example of this. Remember how every glazed the R-73, said it wasn’t needed “it was too overpowered”. “The Aim9m can’t do what it does.”
The R-73 was best at close range, while the Aim9m was good at much longer ranges while both had ICCRM, but it’s found the R-73 is was more susctepible to flares in most cases versus the 9m.
Again, both equally capable missles able to express their strengths because air battles allow for that.
Ground battles doesn’t allow for that dynamic with long range SAMS, where the threat is put defensive before they actually reah the SAM. Instead it’s SHORAD territory because they’re already at a range where the SAM is virtually fuc***.
But there’s nothing to complain about anymore here, the SM SV got added because the playerbase thinks they know what balance is, but let CAS roll off the rails for a while, but just happened to be super convenient Russia got access to the most busted of it all so now they can just say “Russian cas is op, Russian bias” and pretend none of the other nations weren’t or still are offenders, mixed with the fact map design also screws up the issue that players also don’t want changed.
So why should Gaijin even listen to the players at this point, in the current state of the game the SM SV makes sense and is a consequence of the players, because everyone thought on the previous dev server that because the BUK had the best stats on paper, it was gonna be game changing, and then took it on custom maps to show off it’s strength that wouldn’t be reflected in actual games. So no surprise the IRIST was the one that ended up on top.
