Well, knowing how most play on them (they don’t know about tracking radar feature) and how easily fox-3 missiles can be notched this is no wonder.
Pantchir on the other hand can hit more reliably and ability to engage helicopters. It carries smaller missiles but also has autocannons for close combat while BUK can’t defend himself.
Apart from these its a really BIG, like REALLY BIG SAM system if we combine all vehicles, they are pretty vulnerable to enemy fire even on spawn (especially radar plate).
Sadly i didn’t unlocked BUK yet so there’s still some misunderstanding on my part.
Gaijin dose not use Statshark for their analytics. Gaijin has full access to their server data and statistics, not just what they can “scrape” off the data transfers or however Statshark gets their data.
you know, this feels a lot like the time that gaijin said 2s6 was under preforming (mainly because people were using it as a TD), before in one update nerfing it and every other AA along with adding the pantsir
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.
