Why was the F-15E/I nerfed after just one day?

What’s the reason now for players whining about the F-15E/I? Honestly, just because a jet climbs to 8,000m with its engine performing as it should and as it’s meant to it shouldn’t be nerfed.

Now it has more drag starting at Mach 1.15, and you have to be more careful because a bunch of players, mainly those who focus on motherland and a few other nations, complained after just one day.

They whined more than those who argue that the M1 Abrams should get spall liners and depleted uranium armor.

My friend who mains motherland and other nations, let me explain a simple trick that American main players use to get vehicles from their nation nerfed.

  • First, we need to gather evidence.
  • Second, we have to collect every component of the vehicle and send it to Gaijin.
  • Third, we need to build the vehicle from scratch and test it in our garage with a film studio setup.

After that, we make the necessary edits to the recording to keep the file size manageable.
Finally, we wait about 2 to 3 years for the vehicle to be properly balanced in matches if all this evidence is actually read and reviewed by one of the devs in the reports !

Tell me, what kind of contact do you have to make a nerf happen just one day after an update for an American jet? What kind of magic or dimensional portal did you manage to acquire to make this happen so quickly in the game?!

The jet was nerfed and will continue to be ( because I’m sure there’s more whining to come ) because of its engines? Seriously? Engines?! There are so many other things you could complain about from other nations, but you just had to make American players, who are already nerfed on the ground, now get nerfed in the air too?

With every update and every change, all I see is others nations getting advantages. This is discouraging and demotivating. Watching a nation that should be balanced against others get massacred in the game is frustrating, especially because players (influential or not, I don’t know) somehow manage to get an American jet nerfed in less than two days after its release.

Stop reporting the thread. If you don’t like your nation being mentioned, then don’t come here whining.

I had to edit this, removing the names of some nations so that it might not get hidden again, and you can see what was written.

Well, I think everything is fine now! I’ll still keep a few jokes about how USA players have to struggle to get a modification added to a vehicle that should have come with it from the start.

**Edit number 2 : **

Please, if you want to discuss BR increases for the F-15E/I, there are better threads for that topic.

This one is solely focused on discussing the nerfs the jet received to its engines, which is unfair considering we had to deal with the MiG-29 and Su-27 when they were released in their respective updates, and it took weeks for them to be properly balanced!

The R-73 missiles performed absurd maneuvers, and in some cases, they still do for some reason, but they are now manageable to some extent.

Once again, I kindly ask everyone to stay on topic. And to our Japanese, Chinese, or whatever part of Asia you’re from, my friend, stop being so blatantly anti-American in your comments! You should have been removed from the forum for a few weeks just for some of the things you’ve said. Show more respect if you want others not to stoop to your level of “dialogue.” This is meant to be a space for healthy debates, not a place for you to spread hatred against American players freely. The way you constantly target them makes it seem like you harbor an immense, almost racist hatred toward them.

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It wasn’t performing as it should, that’s why Gaijin are fixing it.

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As a mid-high tier ARB jet player I actually think America is very handheld alongside Russia. Isn’t F8U extremely dominant too?

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Sorry, US bias has been revoked, China bias is now engaged.

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Wanna know why it was nerfed? It was nerfed because it was literally unkillable. The thing could kinematically defeat any missile fired at it without a single pop of chaff. You cannot in any world argue that is remotely balanced in the current state of the game.

The nerf is also realistic so cry me a river your jets aren’t unkillable.

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Oh, so why should your tanks be invincible? Why is your autoloader magically stopping APFSDS rounds with 598mm of penetration? Why is a mediocre ERA managing to block 648mm penetration shells? Why is the R-77 missile pulling off unrealistic turn performance in the game? Invincibility is only fun when it’s for your nation, huh? How convenient, isn’t it?

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If you think its wrong and have evidence, make a bug report.

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Far as I know, the “unkillable” tanks at top tier are the Leopards 2 and Stridvagns. Gaijin should remove, also, the unnecessary 6 KH-38MT from the Su-34.

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imagine nerfing a plane because other nations tech isn’t adequate enough.

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Imagine thinking that’s why they’re fixing it.

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Its so funny when american mains cry after their already completely dominant top tier is nerfed by a minute amount
(they reported this lmaoaoaoao)

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Oh no their unbelievably good plane is slightly less unbelievably good, truly a horrific change, gaijin hates america

I just find it funny that they act like 1. this nerf is unrealistic, and 2. act like it wasn’t already stupid good

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Because its gamebreakingly good? Also it seems to be a realistic change.

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Whether or not this was a nerf for ‘balance’ or ‘realism’, frankly I don’t know and don’t massively care, as it’s still the highest performance aircraft in game.

I’m still going to have tons of fun in F-15I. No point getting angy over a relatively inconsequential adjustment.

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Well you should expect the United States military aircrafts to be that way. Example: If the F/A-18A/C Hornets get added they will be untouchable

F-18 is a good aircraft but far from unkillable

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Ah, so the classic “America is dominant irl, so it should be dominant in War Thunder.”

Might as well remove other tech trees by that point. What’s point of me playing UK, Sweden, etc. when they will always be worse than the US? War Thunder is a game, not a simulation of real life. Even though Gaijin claims that the game is realistic it is not in many ways… They’ll still make changes to fulfill balance.

If anyone has evidence that the F-15E can literally go 3400 km/h TAS at 10,000 meters, accelerating WAY past its never exceed speed of sub 2800 km/h and having the straight line performance of an SR-71 before the nerf, you’re welcome to educate us about it.

Blue is after the change, orange is before.

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There is already video about it MatAWG video

Why am I not surprised…

Every time a developer sneezes, matawg is on it with a vid.

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What your problem with Mat lol? He just announce news/leaks etc.