Why is this arcade lineup 11.3?

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To my understanding, this lineup in air arcade should come out to 11.0 as the BR is the average of the top 3 BR aircraft in your lineup, with anything lower than 0.6 than the top BR (11.3) rounded to 0.6 below the top (10.7).

First of all, the BR formula isn’t exactly the mean of the top three, it actually a weighted average that looks like this:

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So 11.3/2 + 11.0/4 + 10.7/4 = 11.075.

Secondly, the final result is rounded up to the nearest BR step, so as a result 11.075 will be rounded up to 11.3.

This is all based on the information on the wiki BTW, which I’m assuming is up to date with what’s in-game: Matchmaking | War Thunder Wiki

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Well that’s disappointing…

Don’t understand why that’s been done though, as you could only get a maximum of 0.3 lower than the top BR anyway.

wait can you can cheese vehicles into super downtiers still? would be really stupid to keep allowing that

If cheesing ONE vehicle into 0.3 below it’s BR is considered “super” then yeah.

I believe they changed it recently to make it far harder to pull vehicles down in BR didnt they?

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Wait your lineup br isn’t just the top br? That’s stupid lmao.
Anyway, just play realistic it’s better. Especially at jet tiers

No thanks, I prefer my ace combat gameplay.

alright lol