Reason: The aircraft is classified as a “fighter,” yet it is a far less effective fighter than most aircraft in the 10.7–11.0 BR range, Speed isn’t everything, because to make the most of its combat capabilities, a fighter must also be able to “turn,” and the F-104 isn’t very good at that. What’s more, its armament isn’t impressive even for BR 11.0—I don’t know how it’s still so high in the battlerating… Its AIM-7Es are somewhat useless given the ACM’s 4-kilometer detection range; the AIM-7Es don’t start tracking the target until 1.8 seconds after launch, so for two-thirds of the afterburner burn, they just fly straight ahead (the AIM-7E’s afterburner burns for 2.8 seconds).
What’s more, if you want to choose the Vulcan cannon instead of the AIM-7E, using it in such a poorly maneuverable aircraft isn’t the easiest task; six AIM-9P missiles aren’t a strong bargaining chip here—they’re rear -aspect and have a short range; even the Draken at BR 10.3 has 6 of them, and its stats don’t suggest it’s overpowered at all.
Please reconsider the BR for the Italian and German F-104G, F-104S, F-104S TAF, etc.
Reasoning:
The Sd.Kfz. 234/2 is a truly high-performance scout vehicle that combines excellent mobility and strong firepower.
Its large hull and thin armor that can be easily penetrated by 50cal rounds are definite weaknesses. However its outstanding gun depression and fast reload speed more than compensate for these flaws.
The main gun the 50 mm KwK 39/1 offers excellent ballistics and penetration power while the secondary MG42 is also superb.
Mirage F1C-200 (france)
(applies to all Mirage F1)
Realistic Battles: 12.0 → 11.7
Reasoning:
Extremely terrible flight performance and radar missiles at a extremely compressed BR often finding itself fighting F-18s, Su-27s and F-15s, 2 really good IRCCM missiles on a very mediocer aircraft should not justify it fighting things it has no chance against.
I’ll just put this out there as a blanket statement. I think the idea of the 3.0-3.7 decompression is good, and a necessary step. But the execution is a bit lacking, and many vehicles are being moved without much consideration.
There are lots of opportunities to tweak stats, correct bug reports, or adjust ammunition options to make vehicles more befitting of their new BRs, but that is largely absent from this changelog with the exception of the the SU-122. It’s a very shallow way of approaching balance that is generally just going to irritate more players than it appeases.
Technically this applies to the Ikv 103, but removing a historical service round that was this vehicle’s entire gimmick so that they could make it a worse Sav m/43 was not a wise choice, especially when considering the Ikv 102 is literally right there in your considered suggestions page.
LUIGI CADORNA
5.3->5.0
NAVAL RB
this is no where close to the lepzig at 5.3 it has weaker arms and weaker armor. the emden at same br is slightly better if not equal and that isnt getting raised theres no reason for it to go up in br. it would face the 6.3 northdakota in a uptier with little it can do
USS southdakota
8.3->8.7
Naval RB
stronger than pretty much every 8.3 battle ship and faces 7.3s like KONGO which have no chance its basically a mini IOWA and is extremely OP its completely unfair to fight. its armor exceeds the bismarcks and she doesnt even have a fire issue while also have exetremely good shells for the BR and she has good reload should not be 8.3
i dont think it should go down if it was 11.7 it would face 10.7s further compressing the Br what they need to do is decompress that br magic 2s against 10.7s is not the answer
Ultimately, we need to raise the battle rating higher, the fact that an F-16A with a BR of 12.3 in ARB has to face deadly 13.3s equipped with a large number of ARH missiles is absurd; I see two solutions: either we extend the BR to ~16.7 OR we reduce the roll spread from 1.0 up/down to 0.7.
Oh, and no Yak-3P, Yak-3U, Yak-9U, or Yak-9P uptiers also shows how biased towards russia gaijin really is. It’s plain in the open for everyone to see.
Honestly, just add whatever changes Fourche7 suggests. A lot of what I came into the last thread suggesting is stuff he had already made even better posts about once I scrolled up. All good stuff from him.
It’s great to see the decompression around GRB 3.7 being added to the change list. Some of the worst offenders like the T-34 1940 and T18E2 being moved up is very nice, though there are a number of other tanks around rank II that still need to be addressed in GRB (e.g. Sherman III/IV, M4A3 105).
I will make separate posts later detailing which vehicles I feel still need adjustment for this decompression, but overall, I was quite pleasantly surprised by the direction taken with this updated list. With how jaded I’ve been about the game these days, that’s saying something. Well done snail.
