Using player statistics to balance BRs or to calculate effectiveness has been an issue since forever. Sometimes it’s because big nations have a bigger share of players, so the sample size is larger with more variance, or it’s because premiums that vehicles have worse statistics than others that are actually worse to play. This is how you end up with vehicles that are comically overtiered or undertiered, or additions that end up breaking the game because it ends up being too powerful and no contemporaries for other nations are added.
Gaijin needs to consider more input from people who actually play at the BR environment.
Considering their actual kit, the EldE 98 and the Spyder AIO are 100% worse than the Buk-M3, so the statement that it is the worst top tier SPAA in terms of performance is wrong.
Just 3 years ago, developers relied on specific objective performance metrics to compare SAMs and their missiles and demonstrated their case to the public with graphics and factual explanations which you can find here:
Now? They have relegated to using server statistics to justify their decisions to the public on their streams. If they had tried to re-use performance metrics comparing all of the missiles, they would have seen that the BUK outperforms all other top-tier radar SAMs.
In fact, it is looking like the BUK-M3 is going to outperform even the future Patriot SAM MIM-104B while outclassing other top-tier radar SAMs. (Credit to @legocubed)
But comparing the performance graphics of all the missiles would not have served well to suit the narrative that the Buk-M3 is the worst performing top-tier radar SAM objectively.
Even if the BUK was the worst top tier AA, the Pantsir is still one of the best top tier AAs in the game… Meanwhile the Spyder sitting at 12.7… it could be at 10.7 and it’d still be worse than the 2S6
I think what Gaijin should do is definitely not release a new Pantsir, but instead fix the BUK’s radar so it can better leverage the overwhelming advantages of its missiles.
Buk is far away from Op.
I hope you you woulld actually unlock it, and try it.
Only way BUK is actually hitting helos, if player is smart enought to NOT use radar screen on shot against those, and instead using launcher and launchers own tracking radar. ( what you need actually see target to get lock)
And well well well, imagine that BUK what is completely radar missile doesnt respect same rules as IRIS what is radar quided, having IOG and gnss on first part of missile track, and when missile is in 10Km range of target it switches to IR quidance , and actually decimates every flying jet out from the sky. And yes IRIS is still best top tier AA in game.
It doesnt have SACLOS. It is still radar , but it uses launchers radar to track it not the slow ass main dish with 4sec blind spot.
And that is only advantage in buk in reality.
And still every nato SPAA on 12.7 is performing better compared to BUK, what an surprise
