Modern self-propelled artillery that look way out of place and just delete you by shooting under you, shooting at your cupola, shooting near your engine block with no regard for armour.
ARB in general fell out of favour as well.
Reasoning:
Matches being reduced in length, 16v16 became a thing and so on (when I initially played ARB was hour long matches. When i came back, I kept trying to play ARB until I learnt sim exists and figured out how to play it.)
Fv4005 and conqueror.
The situation of hesh is so sad and having a 120mm apds with supposedly 500mm of penetration shatter on Thin overlapping Armor, is also sad. Both were my favourite Tanks but with the weak ammo and Long reload Times, they are Just No Fun anymore.
ZTZ59D1 used to have Gen 1 thermals, and was at 8.7. That made it the lowest BR medium tank in the Chinese tree to have thermals. However, they were later changed to NVDs, making it lose its uniqueness.
The reverse gear completely ruined the vehicle. I could live with the added weight and slightly lower mobility but the nonexistent reverse gead just makes it unusable.
Both this and the EBR 1954 were casualties of the AMX M4 moving up. It makes me most mad since my friends often play 6.7 and now I cannot use this lineup anymore and have to use the 6.0 one if I want to play France. (Though I did get 2 nukes with the 5.3 EBR this week)
Simply french tax. The most toxic thing being the AMX-13-M24 premium is still at 3.7
Completely out of place even though I still remember how bad it was at 6.7 withput APHE and without an autoloader.
4.3 was too low but the fact that it was 6.7 for ages without the best shell is still rage inducing. Should have just got it and stayed there with the AMX 13.
They were perfectly well balanced at 6.7.
My 7.0, 7.7, 8.0 and 8.3 lineups don’t even have an SPAA (even though I have 8 crew slots) because the AMX 10P and TPK are just inadequate at those BRs.
6.7 Germany, great Vehicles - always uptiered against 7.7 / 7.3 US/USSR Vehicles.
In Arcade that Line Up is just butchered with the Jagdtiger at 7.3…
And also Chinas 12BR MBTs, they are just bad. They still do feel good to play but they are just simply the worst MBTs at Top in the Game, even Ariete is better. Well except for the M1A2T which is now Chinas by far best MBT.
Ta-152H
Why?
It used to have a very solid armanent, so people were usually not keen on going head-on, especially Japanese, Spitfires and Yaks.
Fast forward to 2025.
Yak-3U can 1-shot you easily with 100% HE belt.
Spitfire has 50% chance to 1 shot you if it hits.
Your own guns have ridiculously bad range, including AP shells that should have way better ballistics than Shvak’s AP or non-tracer HE, but they don’t because reasons.
Meanwhile Yak-3U remains 5.7 while being faster, turning better, accelerating and climbing waaay better and having better guns.
Next is Fw 190 A5/U2.
2xMG151/20 used to be very solid armanent and the plane itself could pull hard at high speed to land hits on soviet and japanese UFOs.
Nowadays 2xMG151/20 is a horrible armanent due to horrible ballistics and mediocre belt composition, and since every 20mm HE 1-shots, the ballistics and belts is all that counts.
The plane itself got its FM butchered and nowadays it can’t properly pull lead at any speed. It’s bad at low speed, bad at medium speed and bad at high speed.
Meanwhile Pay2winnin’s Yak-3 sits at 4.0 while being better everywhere with sole exception of rip speed, which is something very easy to work around, as opposed to inability to maneuver while also having to fire at close range because of how the guns work.
Basically the same applies to A5U12 which sits at 4.3 because it’s just hilarious to watch it struggle, I guess.
Practically the whole game is ruined by uptiers…
You can call any ^specific^ vehicle that was ruined by its BR when comparing to even 0.7 uptiers in most occasions…
Very few are actually not entirely destroyed (at least on air) in a 0.7 uptier.
Pre- Mig-25 opinion, Ive not touched it in a while
In GRB its a solid CAP option for our normally quite good 10.7 lineup. Especially if you prefer it over the FGR2.
In ARB, its okay, sucks in the uptiers, but does fine in the downtiers, the extra 2 missiles over the FRS1e is kinda nice.
in ASB, dont bother, its 11.3 and just fights Mig-23MLDs, just play the FRS1e instead.
Its a shame they wont give the FRS1 some of its specific buffs like its upgraded RWR. Would help distinguish it from the FRS1e and keep it on par with the AV-8S
Cool, good to know. I only play arb but I might grind it for the sake of it.
Also it’s crazy how every time you talk about a Harrier I find out about another inaccuracy, and there’s always more