What's balance?

You can rate a vehicle but all of them have the last stat being “balance”.
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So what are we talking about here?

The balance of vehicle stats or how balanced the vehicle is supposed to be?

Since it’s possible to switch from Arcade to RB stats without any change, it appears to be about the vehicles characteristics. BRs also change all the time, so it can’t be the vehicles performance.

It seems like such a weird stat that doesn’t really say much about the vehicle and it seems like easy to misunderstand.

Players voted the 15cm sIG 33 B Sfl to be super balanced but it’s easily one of the most unbalanced vehicles, that is only made up of extremes.

  • Extreme Damage
  • Extreme long reload for 1.0
  • Extreme short range
  • Extreme unflexible
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So to me it seems like one of the most unbalanced vehicles in terms of it’s stats and capabilities.

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I would assume that Balance is for it’s BR.
How it’s compared to other vehicles in the game.

But your arguments are valid, it’s confusing.

My question is: what is there to stop players completely memeing on it?

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The main issue is that the rating should apply for the vehicle for both rb and arcade, unless there was a seperate rating.

Of course armor and firepower is also relative and can change with BR.

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Few questions regarding whoever thought this system would even itself out:

  • What happens when the BR of a vehicle changes and it becomes stronger or weaker dramatically?
  • What happens when a vehicle or mechanic is changed which affects its performance vs last patch?
  • What about stuff that nobody plays and thus may only get one rating?
  • What if a vehicle is viable in one mode (AB/RB/SB) but performs differently in another?
  • What happens if it’s a meme vehicle and people just rate it for the lols?

With the naval mode being my focus, I imagine this information will be completely useless and misleading for most ships. We already have few players, with even fewer veterans, and well over half a century of ship development at the same BR. There are vessels that stomp in a 0.3 downtier and are useless in a 0.3 uptier.

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