? If it was compression the worst jets would have went down with the best jets that got downtiered.
It’s both.
Compression caused them to go down in the first place, as well as creating the situation that led to them being downtiered.
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If true, the lesser aircraft that got left behind would have went too.They (Venom, G.91, Javelin, Mysteres, Hunter, etc) did not.
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Which is where the player skill part comes in.
They had the worse stats, so they were moved down. They were also moved down due to compression.
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You seem to forget that minor nations are ignored by the playerbase at large, and that Gaijin loves to idiotically uptier/downtier by statistics rather than the vehicle’s own capabilities.
A flag? Lmfao. Adorable.
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While we’re here, we’d like to give some additional context behind Battle Ratings and how they’re decided. Battle Ratings are decided based on how much a vehicle earns, but this is not purely economical. We use this metric because it’s all encompassing and considers every action a player makes with their vehicle, so this considers frags, assists, caps, and effectively every useful action a vehicle can perform all bundled into one universal metric.
This is the “Efficiency” of each vehicle and gives us a very well rounded perspective on all of its abilities and how it’s actually being used.
If a vehicle has high efficiency, it’s outperforming its contemporaries in multiple ways the majority of times it spawns on the map, and as a result may have to be increased in Battle Rating. Whereas a vehicle with low efficiency is not performing well across the board against what it fights, and may be moved down. However this is not purely a data driven process, we often consider additional factors such as the volume of players using a certain vehicle, its lineup, new features that may be altering performance in different ways etc — and this often leads us to delay a change we otherwise would have made to gather more information. Even though we do primarily go by this efficiency metric, we aren’t bound by it, and spend a lot of time each Battle Rating cycle to look over feedback for different perspectives and elements we may not have initially considered.
Ultimately, it’s very hard to balance a vehicle in a vacuum. On paper an aircraft might have incredible speed, or a tank might have great penetration for its Battle Rating, but this is cold data, in the sense that just because a vehicle on the surface has a very impressive asset, it doesn’t mean that asset guarantees high performance. It’s more about how a vehicle is actually functioning in the game, rather than weighing up its assets in isolation. So efficiency is good data to be informed by as it considers everything and everyone.
We’d like to note that when balancing aircraft before the introduction of separate Battle Ratings by mode, in the vast majority of cases the Battle Rating was set according to the performance for Air Battles, and not Ground Battles. We understand that many of you wanted a Battle Rating reduction for strike aircraft in Air Battles, so we have some additional answers for you on this below.
Primarily is a direct contradiction of “sometimes”
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Which again, goes into what I was saying.
Gaijin does cross-analysis of vehicles each time.
Sometimes there are errors [F-14A being over-BR’d now, and F-104S ASA being over-BR’d in general], that’s partly due to compression partly due to not thinking hard enough.
F-14A is not over BR’d.
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I can play the F-14A with 2 degrees less sustained turn at 12.0.
There’s zero reason to ever play the F-14A again when ALL 12.7s in the game are superior to it, and some 12.3s are superior to it.
Not only 8.0-8.7, but also 7.7, F80c at 7.7 is a joke, same with those navy fighters, like F9F-2/5…
The F-80A is arguably a 7.3 plane, so it makes sense that the F-80C would be at 7.7.
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F80A is not for 7.3, and also F80C is not worth for 7.7, it doesn’t make sense
Says who? What exactly is competing with the F-80A that doesn’t deserve to go even higher?
Unless you want to make it becomes the another worst plane at 7.3, what can make it to 7.3?
The fact that it is better in every way than a 262?
Why do you just compare with 262? is it better than SU9 or Meteor?By the way 262 is a little bit faster than F80 and it’s high speed performance is better as well
Yes.
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Both of these things are straight up untrue. Research your jets please.
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Seems you doesn’t know how to deal with F80A like people who don’t know how to deal with zero
Even if the top speed and high speed performance are slightly better, the 262 won’t ever reach it’s top speed unless it spends half the match climbing.
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