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What do you mean with balance? Did Gaijin artificially put the MM.495 only with the German propeller to balance it?

Yeah, except that I refuse to believe that it was a balancing decision. Performance has never stopped them from adding broken stuff to the game… I mean the BI exists lol.

This is not even a financially smart decision.

They gave the aircraft the entire MM.495 design and for whatever reason didn’t include the most important part of it…? It’s not even an accurate MM.494 variant either.

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It’s basically the most boring battle pass since the french M46.

How can you mess this up so badly?

Same situation as with sholef, a very cool vehicle stripped of literally everything that made it cool and reduced to borderline copypaste slop.

They literally shot their own foot with this

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I don’t know if this is the case, but it’s something they did a couple of times. One example on the top of my mind is when they removed the stabiliser on the T25.

I’m saying I support this kind of decisions, but if they choose to do an unhistorical nerf at least change the br accordingly.

Specially given that MM.495 is written on the tail section, on both the standard and unlockable camouflage.

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Yep, I seen it.
There’s like nothing that can justify this aircraft being the way it is right now. It’s an abomination.

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So did the tech mod or anyone else ever elaborate on the rejection? I don’t understand how they can justify a completely fictional configuration of the plane, especially when advertised as a specific real variant. As far as I know, the VDM propeller was ONLY fitted in conjunction with the new MW-50 boosted engine. Even the MM.494 didn’t fit the propeller. The thrust loss on the current version is also weird, probably to do with having the wrong propeller for the engine.

Fantasy nerfs as some sort of balance is just so disappointing, worse than the infamous “late war steel” modifier for german heavies. But nobody cares because it’s an obscure Italian prop. People go to war over the IRIS-T or the EF-2000 but don’t care about this thing.

If Gaijin wanted a copy-paste Re.2005 they should’ve just used the MM.494.

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@S_bastienZ88 @paolgand1975-psn @Real_K_Soze
I made a forum post on the VDM situation The Re.2005 VDM situation is crazy
Perhaps if we get enough attention we can get Gaijin to fix this. Please feel free to suggest any modification to the post

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I wrote you an email and look if the other great great people can help you too like @paolgand1975-psn etc

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Hi

will take a look this evening

thank you

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