How about in addition to the BR System, we have “Eras”. Each era consists of a certrain generation of Aircraft design and combat Strategies, such as early coldwar, late coldwar, modern, etc. So for example Mirages, f14 's and MiG23’s, MiG21Bis’s etc would fight in mid coldwar, Shortrange dogfights are the Main Fighting method, together with SAHR’s and the occasional Phoenix. While Planes like the f16, f15, su27, eurofighter, rafale etc would fight in the modern era, where they can launch all the fox’3s and bvr missiles they want
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Creating more groups of perma-downtiers and perma-uptiers is probably not the best.
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You would create a situation where certain vehicles would be permamently the weakest of an ERA and therefore only ever face uptiers and others would be at the top and only ever face downtiers.
Also what exact years would you define for each bracket?
F-15C MSIP II would technically be late cold-war not modern.
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And then the more you look at it, you then need to grey the eras a bit, so you end up essentially at where BRs are applicable.
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that’s how the game was set up when it was released ended up with f-86’s fighting me163’s and late props there’s a reason that they changed it
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does that mean F22 could be added.
No.
BR system already balances things.
If it was era then F-14s would drop from 12.7 all the way down to 11.7, or worse the Mig-23MLD would increase to 12.7.
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Why not do that everyone complains it’s never fair and that some things are fighting things they never would of?
mmm yes, pz ii vs kv1
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F-15C MSIP II in game is an early 2000s upgrade, so no it is not. The wiki even refers to it as, “the F-15C MSIP II in its mid-2000s variant”
Purely because it has HMD. It is missing litereally every single other upgrade like radar, BOL, etc that it recived in the 2000s. The F-15C in-game is late 1980s/early 1990s with HMD.
no it doesn’t. it means it’s his idea.
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While the way it was described is a bit flawed, the basic concept is absolutely needed because a lot of coldwar vehicles wrongly get mixed with WW2 vehicles that they are blatantly over powered against. gaijin also needs to stop adding coldwar shit that’s “only viable” at WW2 ranks/BRs like the M44 and M55
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And you know what? You would never face coldwar vehicles with HEAT rounds capable of well over 200mm of pen at BR 5-6, which would be an objectively better state for the game to be in because BR’s with how horribly they are managed aren’t enough to properly balance the game.
IRL Shermans faced M48s in wargames and in some cases real wars.
War Thunder is more balanced than real life militaries ever were.
To this day wargames showcase T-55s vs Abrams while in War Thunder the BR system makes that impossible.
“Era based” would be more compressed than the current system, or be inauthentic.
When a vehicle was primarily made and used(if it was ever used) in combat would be it’s era, most Shermans would be firmly in mid to late WW2 with some exceptions, which could be accomplished simply by including it in a lineup with newer vehicles, which can already be done, the problem is you’re still likely to be forced into matches with vehicles that you absolutely should not, like facing those stupid Russian vehicles with 300mm penetration heat rounds while using a Tiger H/E
That would be an arbitrary standard. Far, far, far more arbitrary than equating vehicles based on capability.
Capability isn’t really a social construct. Time is.
A 2S38 doesn’t become as good as an M1A2 SEP3 just because it was made in 2019.
A Maus isn’t as good as a Centurion Mk1 just because it was prototyped around the same time.
Also it’s American, Japanese, and other American 90mm vehicles with 320mm HEATFS, not Soviet.
“Wrongly”
So, comrade. Are you volunteering to fight a T-54 in a PVKV IV? When you do that, send footage, so we can all see how viable your idea is.
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I’ve fought WW2 heavies with the 15cm slG, not really any worse