I love the game!
If i didn’t, i wouldnt spend time and money on it.
BUT!!!
But Gaijin couldn’t balance a map, let alone design a good new one if their life depended on it.
And don’t get me started on balance and spaags among the different nations.
I always say they couldn’t balance a cube. :D
I mean, they added this joke of a plane and some other stuff. And now Russia will have the best Battleship too, beating the Iowa, Yamato, and Bismarck.
Is there any substance to the 45mm aphe being modelled like HE?
The reason I ask is that the 45mm compared to Mk 108 30mm seems much worse at destroying vehicles with open fighting compartments
That’s probably because MK108 has way bigger HE charge and fires more than twice as fast.
When strafing people with MK108 I usually hit them 7-8 times while firing 15 shells (1,5s of firing).
Yak-9k would have to spent about 4s to fire 15 times and would lose half of its ammo. Even if we assume 9k hits every time (not true.at all for most users), that’s still 8 shells so 2s of firing. Reality is, 9k gets the job done in 1-2 shots, and MK108 rarely kills in one pass.
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This is a huge buff to Yak-9K, as it’s one of the planes affected. Basically outside of nose/engine/canopy and modules, nothing in this plane triggers fuses of enemy HE shells. Which means, SPAAs are modtly ineffective now and probably were for quite some time, as this community is not the sharpest.
Anyway, end result is, if you hit the wings or fuselage/tail there’s a huge chance your shell will pass harmlessly through, dealing no damage whatsoever.
This further exacerbates rhe Yak-9K issue and generally means many WW2 Soviet aircraft and The Mosquito are now.VERY hard to to kill.
Good news is, it’s been already reported!
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Add Russia getting a battleship that beats the Iowa, Yamato, and Bismarck. And it aint even close. One that never existed. And yeah.
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Using this UFO en 6.7 right now and basically outperform most fo the 6.7 CAS planes… really Gaijin ?
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This was already posted on Reddit.
There is no debate that this 45mm APHE round, specifically, is over performing… probably in multiple ways, but definitely in its post-pen damage.
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Planes get BRs according to air RB performance. Thats one of the biggers air assets issue. Thich means Yak-9K will continue to have this low BR because its not used much in air RB or its performance is low in air RB.
So we have CAS which is undertiered and cheap because its not effective in air RB but highly effective in RB GF.
And we have overtiered and expensive fighters which are effective in air RB but not used much much in RB GF because CAS is cheaper and more effective.
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Gaijin is giving to the planes separate BRs for air/ground mode since one year ago, so there is not any single reason for keep this piece of propaganda with wings in 4.7.
The only reason for stay so massive overpowered and undertiered is because is russian.
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It says “for some ground attack aircraft”. So if plane is marked as fighter but can carry huge ordnance it doesn’t go under that category.
Yak-9K is lower in air RB. Its 4.0 there and 4.7 in RB GF.
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All planes are included.
It says “apart from few exceptions” so its still not all. The issue is we cannot tell which ones are the exceptions.
I am not in disagreement with you about Yak-9K but Gaijin uses automated algorithm to change BR. So we can only hope that Yak-9K performance will triger that algorithm soon enough.
It does have a distinct GRB and ARB BR.
3.7 in AAB, 4.0 in ARB, 4.3 in ASB
For ground,
– AAB, 4.7 GRB, 4.7 GSB
F4U-4 could prolly do with getting bumped tho.
It being at 4.3 is awfully criminal. It should share its ASB BR of 5.3 for GRB imo with its insane payload and dogfight capability as well.
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Well its Gaijin. They are the only ones which may know the reasons.
Personally I blame that algorithm which is responsible for BR changes. It looks painfuly slow to trigger changes even when some are rather obvious.
Funny how this is claimed but completely ignorance of a time where germany with Tiger/Panther at 5.3. Everything is Russian this Russian that. But never on gaijin for giving more shit about low tier. You people are literally the reason why stuff take so long to be solved