its fat, slow, and heavy, cant really turn without losing all its airspeed while being a large target for the smaller more agile subsonic jets with only 2 rear aspect only AIM-9Js max, and due to the high lethality of the Russian SAMs spread out to most nations with a 10.3 lineup for ground pushing players to spade the A-7 it in air if at all
as well as have the A-7s swap places with the A-10A, yes it can carry gun pods but that just makes your defensive situation worse
as it is a step up from the A-7D in the form of air to air missiles, it still has the issues mentioned with the A-7Ds post, but with only 5 or 6 (if you take the flir pod)TV guided bombs max
(and if you ask me its a crime it shares a the BR with the A-10A even though its over all a worse platform)
The F-104G/S/TAF, etc., need a lower battlerating after all the FM nerfs that happened about a year ago. These planes pose no challenge when I see them on opposing teams, and it’s evident in their stats and player ratings. The F-104G/S need a snail’s attention; they’re completely forgotten fighters :(
Can you please for the love of everything lower the F18 premiums down to 12.3
No HMD vs everything with HMD
No Fox 3s vs everything with fox 3s
Hardly any down tiers
Stuck with Aim 9Ls
12.3 would fit every F18 premium stuck at 12.7
Bad idea—the F/A-18A tech tree in 12.3 is already very strong at this tier. The C version lets you carry significantly more Fox 1 missiles with data link, and you can load more AIM-9Ls, which work great as an iron dome for shooting down enemy missiles at ranges under 10 km (the ideal combination in my opinion is to take 5x AIM-7P / 4xAIM-9L).
For planes like the Premium Hornets or Premium F-2A ADTW, their battle rating isn’t the issue—they have a good one. The problem is BR compression. Gaijin should have reduced the BR spread for individual aircraft from +/- 1.0 to 0.7 +/- a long time ago, so that a 12.3 doesn’t face a 13.3 or a 12.7 doesn’t face a 13.7, and extend the battle rating range to ~15.7–16.7—that would be perfect.
Gaijin, the problem is that the battle rating is too compressed; that’s where you need to start.
PS:
The day before yesterday I started a battle with an F-16A (ARB) which is on BR 12.3 - of course, a draw with full up-tier and full premium SU-30s which bombarded me with PL-12/R-77s xD I dodged a few missiles but eventually one got me… The entire battle came down to avoiding Fox 3 where I had practically no window to attack… HOW ON EARTH does an F-16A without radar missiles have to fight on BR 13.3? It’s a blatant shot in the foot by the game developers…
Now I will preface this, that I am not a fan of the IKV 103 and I am not a Swedish main but I find it really bizarre that you are planning to remove it’s heat round.
Seriously I hated playing this vehicle, its bulky, slow to turn, the gun horizontal slew is horrendous, there is no MG and it can be 50 cal’d easily from any angle.
The ONLY thing it had was the heat round, which if you had no clear line of sight to your target (tree, fence, magic wall) was only effective 50% of the time (like most heat) when it hit a target. So if you didn’t get a decent hit, you would just get machine gunned to death or laughed at and then killed.
Bruh, that thing is an open topped TD, with limited traverse, average speed and armor not even thick enough for Cal. .50 and you want to put it next to the Medium tanks. 💀
Instead of its intender role as an Uptier Aid for the lower BRs. Its a glass cannon.
Still 12.3~13.3 is plagued by Su-30MKK/MK2, at this point I’m giving up dreaming about gaijin actually making balanced BR system since the most obvious overpowered machines are premium.
