This Starfighter Fights 4th Gen Aircraft | F-104S-ASA War Thunder

The F-104S-ASA is forced to fight vastly superior aircraft such as the F-15 and Su-27 almost every game, due to just how incredibly compressed the matchmaker is. Such a cool plane overshadowed by such poor foresight.
00:00 Intro
00:28 How Did We Get Here
02:08 No Real Advantage
03:58 How to Survive
05:33 Very Little Impact
05:56 Aspide radar missiles
08:24 New Outro!
Outro Music: • Fights On - Summer Ski...
Discord link: / discord

[@norinco8724]

this starfighter eats 4th gens for breakfast

[@GeneralLee2000]

FAX

[@thisbetterwork5]

@@GeneralLee2000​​⁠​⁠​⁠how you gonna say fax after saying that top tiers need to be moved to to 13.3 lol I have 0 probablemente clapping su27’s f15’s or even grippeens in a 23 ml. People just lack knowledge on their own vehicles and their opponents so they don’t know how to excel in any environment whereas I fly high to dodge Sarh’s for fun

[@GeneralLee2000]

@@thisbetterwork5 bro the "eating jets for breakfast" thing is a meme 😭

[@_ace_defective_]

​@@thisbetterwork5how do people on the internet manage to miss the most obvious jokes in existence on a consistent basis

[@Siddich]

@@thisbetterwork5rwoosh or however the kids would say… btw. might-23ml is the only high ranked premium, that is almost a little bit op.

[@derboss.]

Chinese F-104G without flares and bad missiles at 10.7. Madness.

[@lordwintertown8284]

It's comical that the Japanese G model (It essentially is one just with a J to denote Japanese service) was practically the same aircraft an it went down in BR & later got two extra missiles???? The decisions by the devs to place certain machines at these BR's is such a daft concept for me.

[@jerryjuutalainen1783]

To my knowlage no chinese F-104 exists unless you mean taiwan and on top of that who cares that TT was a mistake anyway.

[@user-mx1fq6qm6i]

​@@jerryjuutalainen1783 [phone] social credit

[@derboss.]

yeah it is taiwanese but in the chinese tech tree. Why was it a mistake? Some nice unique planes like the J-8 or JH-7 and J-10 in the near future.@@jerryjuutalainen1783

[@Enteropy23]

10.7 planes get downtiered to 10.0 frequently try playing 11.3 its all uptiers

[@Grumpy2Dumpy]

Man I am BEGGING you, please don’t let this topic die out. This has been such a horrible problem for the game for YEARS. 9.0 to 9.7 are almost completely unplayable, and have been since the introduction of the A-10 and Su-25. These 9.0-9.7 aircraft don’t even have a CONCEPT of what a flare even is, yet they fight all aspect 30G overload missiles, and 20g-25g overload RADAR missiles. I’m so so glad to see SOMEONE focusing on something important, instead of all of us wasting our time on a stupid fucking Armor plate for a single tank.

[@killme4569]

yeah this makes me sad all the time too because i love a lot of the fighters in that range but i just can’t play them. i have no clue how those planes are ever meant to go against all aspect missiles.

[@thisbetterwork5]

Just equip rockets ? You got no imagination bruv

[@mikkim-mh9bc]

@@thisbetterwork5 'duuuh you have no imagination' says the apologist trying to excuse objectively terrible aspects of the game. Like telling a guy with a massive hemorrhage to put a band-aid on it

[@Soggy-Soy-Toy]

Mig-19

[@mikeyplayz8438]

This would be fixed with EC Air RB.

[@the_machine966]

Yeah, decompression is much needed overall. Recently, i saw a video made by russian, he was flying j11, and then he saw, what his team is full of F4Ss, and he just said "ok im going to just rush the enemy team stupidly, because they are probably all flying F4Ss too". And he was playing really aggressive and no one could do anything about it. After match he said "And devs tell us we dont need 12.7". I believe everything was live commentary and not pre-recorded

[@user-jy6cn3jy8g]

Yeah, Su-27(or j-11) is a pure hell for any plane below 12.0, as well as f-15(any mod) and especially gripen, these planes are untouchable for lower tier planes and at the same time have FMs and missiles good enough to annihilate any 11.3-11.7 plane in a single click without even getting position etc like for example in 29A you have to get on someone’s 6 and then get closer than 800m to be ~80% sure that r-60m will hit while in gripen you can launch 9M from 3km side aspect and it will hit almost every time So even 12.7 is not enough, these planes should be at least 13.0 or 13.3 cause of all 11.7-12.0 planes only f-16a can kinda compete with these planes and only in gunfight which happens in 1 out of 10 games

[@thisbetterwork5]

Y’all just lack skill and situational awareness. Many prem jets or people who aren’t already at or haven’t played top tier lack it. People just need to get good Jumping into top tier doesent just have a monetary price. You also gotta learn how to excel. People believe they should be spoon fed though or that it’s the games fault that they are ass lol

[@user-jy6cn3jy8g]

@@thisbetterwork5 surely you do know how many matches I’ve played, my kd etc lmao 😂

[@user-jy6cn3jy8g]

@@thisbetterwork5 just for you to know the highest BR prem plane I have is French yak-3

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

When you're in an F4S and you see SU27. You with your Aim-9H that pulls 18g and has zero flare resistance vs his R73 that pulls 40g off the fucking rail... It's ridiculous, even 12.0 can't compete with what they've added. I've just researched the F14 and the Tornado, both planes that i love but can't play for fear of losing my hair. 11.3 and 11.7, basically a no fun zone. You literally have to play like Tom Cruise to get one kill, if you ain't already spaded then you're simply fucked

[@JJ-cx6ro]

How can Gaijin cite queue times whilst simultaneously having huge 16v16 matches that nobody likes?

[@thecanadiankiwibirb4512]

Yes

[@richardcreasey9319]

I was legitimately speechless when I saw youtubers showing off the new jets before the update dropped and their BR was STILL 12.3. Every single time I bring out the Mirage F1, and since Gaijin refuses to get off their asses and put a max BR indicator somewhere on the UI, I have to open the scoreboard and scan for F-15/Su-27/J-11/JAS39/ to find out if I'm gonna have a worse time than usual. It was already well past time to decompress when F-16s and Mig-29s were the top dogs. Now, it's just obscenely bad. More people than ever before are playing this goddamn game, so the excuse that queue times would get too long is straight up bullshit. And it kills me when I see people just blithely asking when AIM-120 or R77 are coming and it's like...at 12.3!? are you fucking insane? Yeah, 11.0 and 11.3 planes weren't terrible enough to play; please make it worse.

[@killme4569]

there’s no way they stay at 12.3 when the active radar stuff comes in but also they’ll probably just bump them up to 12.7 and call it a day which really isn’t good enough. id say with the planes we have right now we can easily go to 14.0.

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

It's not even that, anything above 11.3 might as well be a 12.3 game. It only takes on SU27 to completely destroy and fun you were going to have in your F4J. The F4J which i researched a week ago and have been literally unable to play... I have the F16C and F15, both spaded but top tier without the compression issue ain't fun so when you play a lower BR and get dragged into top tier anyway just makes me alt f4

[@killme4569]

@@mrcaboosevg6089 that’s the issue. top tier is the most played tier so you’re very likely to get sucked up into it. if you go down to 10.3 to avoid that mess you get permanently sucked up to 11.3 because of the premiums, against planes with pd radar and sarh missiles. then if you go down to 9.3 to avoid that mess, you get permanently sucked up to 10.3 because of f5cs and a10s/su25s. i really wish they’d fix this because every br range in mid to late jets has that one br that has a ton of premiums that ends up sucking up everything else into it, and it’s usually planes that have no right facing planes that advanced, like flare less planes vs all aspect. most jets are just basically unplayable. and they just keep relying on the queue times when i don’t remember the last time i waited more than 15 seconds for jets.

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

@@killme4569 I know but that's the stupid thing, i play at 11.0 in my F4E or something and i get sucked into 11.3 or higher every single game so i get annoyed and think sod it. I get in the F4S or F4J and then spend every game against 12.3... It's like the only option is an uptier for me specifically. Always against higher BR planes unless i'm literally playing a plane that's 12.3. It's not a good system for anyone, it just feels like the game is always against you

[@killme4569]

@@mrcaboosevg6089 everyone is just more likely to get uptiered rather than doentiered. in a full uptier to 12.3 from 11.3 there can only be 4 12.3s on each team but that’s enough to ruin your game. however, since there are only 4 of them and many many many more games that are 12.0-12.3 it’s very unlikely you’ll find yourself to be one of the people that get downtiered but the people that are playing 11.3 will always get a few of those people that end up downtiered. it works the same way for 10.3-11.3 for example. as for 11.0, 12.0 is still much more popular than 11.0 which is why you get uptiered a lot. many people are still playing 12.0 to grind new 12.3

[@dilldoe1991]

Yall remember when this thing was like top 3 best jets in game

[@GeneralLee2000]

Pepperidge Farm remembers

[@C0mmunistBalls]

Toptier isnt the only issue but yeah it sure is terribly compressed. Su27/F15/Gripen at 12.3 is something i'll never understand, but we need to do something about 8.3 and 8.7 getting steamrolled every game by F-104As and other planes they simply cant touch.

[@adrianstachowski9422]

Ah yes. Sabres vs mig19s, starfighters and r60m/aim9l very fun

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

@@adrianstachowski9422 At least you have options there, rockets can be used as flares. There's still some skill involved whereas at 11.3 you've got to spam all your flares to dodge and aim9m, one of the six the guy has

[@onlyico]

​​@@mrcaboosevg6089while I do agree it takes more skill than toptier still is hellish to do, even more because you have to actually grind the rockets to even try to use them as flares and even so the are still very bad at it. I havent spaded the any sub sonics in the 9.0 to 10.0 br range because of that, even if you have the skill to to well in them some bs premium with all aspects can just point their noses on you and game over.

[@kampsie1841]

I love the F-104 since the start, But it's gotten to a point where I just can't use it anymore Glad this is starting to get more attention, And It feels like the ASA Radar is broken too, Gaijin should look back into the starfighters and fix/downbr them

[@elnewbie2611]

I've been complaining on this on the forums on how Gaijin just seem to hate Italy, we have the Re.2005, The G.91Y and YS, the F-104 ASA at unfair brs, the Re.2005 is the most uptiered plane in the game and it keeps going up because of bad players complaining about it and the aircraft barely has any 5.0 performance but it sits at 6.0 thanks to trash players, the G.91YS, idk wtf is Gaijin thinking, the YS very often has to fight supersonics and it doesn't have any flares, is flight performance is not good and the guns don't hit anything past 500m heavily uptiered planes in the Italian tech tree, and then you have the F-104 ASA fighting 12.3s all the fucking time.

[@Zarastro54]

Don’t forget the Saggitario and Ariete.

[@seekerpro486]

If I feel bad for the f4S’s I go against, but those f104s are barely considered real players.

[@saika4043]

The whole update should've released at13.0, All F-15s, Su-27s and Gripens to 13.0.. All F-16s and MiG-29s to 12.7 and 12.3 so 11.0 is actually playable again, dont forget japan still has the worst performing F-4E Phantom fighting the best turning F-16s and MiG-29s.

[@theyseeyou7283]

no mig29 or f16 should be at 12.3 all at 12.7

[@Eretaloma]

I see Italian F-104, I subscribe. Great video man and good luck for 15k!

[@GeneralLee2000]

o7 Spaghett enjoyer

[@Navagiasostis]

There is something funny and nostalgic about hearing that BR compression is an issue and remembering the same stuff being talked about back when the Hunter F1 was added... I'm getting old, just like war thunder, but like me, War Thunder just cant bother fixing some issues with itself :D

[@makuraduckie9914]

decompression is really needed in each rank. flareless planes fight all aspect missile bois which makes some planes not fun

[@JosheyG34]

As an FYI there are several real life accounts of 104's beating F-15's in simulated fights

[@xlgapelsin6173]

Please provide sources since i want to research this

[@RT42069]

They need to make it so you only face 0.4 above/below your BR instead of 1.0

[@zeta4687]

oh yes i'm totally ready to fight fox3 at 12.7

[@AsphaltCowboyUSA]

My favorite F104, I have great stats in it. Long time ago, before contrails have been added ;) I always dropped from space got 4 kills 😂

[@nateislame5381]

Yeah its insane i think all the 9ms jets should go up to 13.5 and all the 9l jets 12.0 9ls isnt bad but... again f16s and migs against 11.0 would suck

[@rgaeaben8043]

Hope you get better Lee!

[@GeneralLee2000]

Thank you!

[@thegoodone7083]

They could give it aspide mk2 to F104 asa/m but not really sure if they used them

[@gummonster1]

The F-104 was a space plane far ahead of its time. In war thunder warbirds are pretty common seen in the highest tiers after all.

[@ozz3201]

I had a fucking stroke trying to understand whatever tf you are trying to convey

[@whothoughthandleswereagoodidea]

What the fuck does this mean

[@gummonster1]

@@ozz3201Didn't you know? Chuck Yaeger took a heavily modified one to the edge of space with rocket booster assisted climb and he had RCS thrusters like on a spacecraft. It really was a space plane ahead of its time.

[@gummonster1]

ICBM's and extremely long range and hyper-sonic surface to air missiles made stuff like the F-104 Obsolete.

[@ozz3201]

@@gummonster1 that has absolutely nothing to do with your comment

[@owllegostopmotion7633]

Could you do a video on the texh tree mirage f1? Its the first near top tier i have grinded to and wanna know how it is

[@NukieDookie]

F104s are some of my favorite planes. Danger pencils

[@Jaeger_89]

If you reduce BR matchmaking range to 0.7, you solve 95% of Air's problems with compression. The worst problems are precisely at the 1.0 range. Most 0.7 uptiers are doable, if not easily playable...

[@cl3matis]

the 104 asa is. really bad for this honestly, only other thing that comes close is the F1 imo in terms of br compression depression - fights 9Ls and R60Ms every game without countermeasures - bad flight performance against stuff it sees, at leas the f104 can run away from things a bit - loses energy faster than the viggen loses fuel i'd rather be in a Crusader

[@norinco8724]

crusader is a good pick though

[@GeneralLee2000]

Crusader is a big W

[@ATS_i_piss_on_G00gle]

"Que times " my a.. .Its all about frustrating players in buying they stupid premium vehicles of 60-70$. If people will stop buying those prem vehicles,i bet gaijin will consider decompressing.Not sure since they will make a sale on premium time. Another "touch the grass" campaign is in order.

[@TomPrickVixen]

Maybe a BR range change could help, from "+/-1.0" to only "+/- 0.4" from rank 6, but only in air so it would not effect CAS planes in mixed battles, and maybe decrease the max player numbers to 10 vs 10; so top Air RB wont look like rank 1 AB with AAMs?

[@WurstWesen82]

For some vehicles a +/- 0.7 BR spread would be perfect. So simple.

[@rt-eden8392]

Psst don't say that the holy bugged load out of the S.asa exist. they are listening

[@CarolusR3x]

My man's got the coof again!

[@mattfgln]

Well it’s historically accurate.

[@No1harris_98]

I really want to grind the Italian air as I find it quite interesting and would be good for my ground RB line up, but this video shows why I don’t want to…

[@EB-Ghost6]

Ah man dude you got me sick now 😂😂😂

[@shikikanaz4624]

maybe if they inplement decompresion. some jets can move up and get better weaponary like Q5A and L. they could get missiles and countermeasures or f111 get some better missiles at a higher BR

[@logannicholson1850]

The dumbest aspect of this plane is the fact it LOSES 2 weapon pylons for zero reason

[@MrScott664]

Cries in Italian F104S TAF

[@OneMoreDesu]

Cl13b Mk6 might be a good contender for the jet suffering from compression the most

[@DiamondSquidy]

2:02 Que times at top tier RB is pretty fast. There’s just allot of wallet warriors so 🤷🏼‍♂️ but for props i remember it being rlly rlly slow at times and rlly fast at others. Just rlly inconsistent tbh

[@elenaeverett4481]

What do you think of the EJ Kai at 11.7 or the JA37D ar 11.3

[@GeneralLee2000]

Still not great, but in a better spot than the ASA is.

[@theonlyknight3171]

The matchmaker is terrible but I still enjoy it the most out of any Italy jet above Rank 6. My favored tactic is to stay in level flight at the start, and then climb vertically up to altitude to end up above people and dropping 9Ls on them from 3-4km. They're not 9Ms, but if I pick targets right it'll usually net a kill or two before I transition to basically just baiting head-ons for the rest of the match. As for the compression, it's a bit hilarious how glaring the issue is, even just looking at the Italian tech tree. The S.ASSY is underperforming, so it should maybe go down, but then it ends up the _same BR_ as the base 104S, which is much worse (as an airframe that relies on its kit with a much worse kit). So then maybe the argument is to move the 104S down as well (I find it's... okay), but then it's the same BR as the 104G, which again is _obviously_ a worse jet. That whole leapfrogging effect is literally what compression is, though, so there's nothing new. In a good world, I think the S.ASA would be two BR steps above the S, but right now there's almost an argument for them to be the same BR? How is that acceptable?

[@micahk99]

Grinding the ASA right now and its just straight pain, endless bottom BR matches, the moment i have the ADF unlocked i will never touch this junk again until BR fixes are added.

[@marcusruggeri5681]

Now the ASA can carry vulcan with aspides too?

[@_ace_defective_]

People who say that they have no problem beating 12.3s in their 11.3 are missing the point aa always. I once beat an Su-27 in a dogfight with an F-4J, does that mean it's fine that they regularly see each other in the matchmaker when one plane is objectively better in every way?

[@thatguy4828]

Can you make a video on wherher the F-15C should get its HMD when added or not? I've had a few debates with other people and want to get some opinions from someone who actually knows what they are talking about

[@sharcc2511]

Its so funny that the F104 is a horrific example of BR compression *on both ends*. The F104A is a disgusting monster which has been ruining 8.3, 8.7 (and honestly to an extent 9.3) lobbies for a while now, and then conversely this starfighter gets squeezed in to what is basically modern day air combat, truly terrible.

[@spray916]

I cannot wait for AMRAAM F-15 vs F-104.

[@Panocek]

BR compression is not an issue, its a goal to drive premium sales. Queue times are important but they also are convenient scapegoat.

[@ettoreolivero7433]

Excuse me but how could you use the aspide with the gun mounted? If you use Aspide you shouldn’t have the gun since is occupied by the guiding computer

[@Bobspineable]

This is an issue that old airframes with modern weapons are going to face, they are never going to be that good. F-4EJ Kai struggles and the eventual F-4F Ice will struggle as well.

[@Siddich]

…or the Lightning II, that can not outclimb mig-19s, and has to face all aspect slinging groundpounders without any flares.

[@weltall7283]

It is truly sad that starfighters are done dirty. I love these things

[@GeneralLee2000]

The 9.3 one is pog tho

[@justfly7730]

Its 90 percent what missile you ve got at top tier 😊

[@anguscovoflyer95]

How is the f-104asa carrying a gun with radar missiles? I thought it can only be one or the other.

[@Statesmensch]

Aspide my beloved…

[@dixievfd55]

4 km is about right for ACM or you'd be locking onto everything the radar beam touches but the aircraft you're dogfighting. Also the American F-104s need to go up, too.

[@whiskyhyena6801]

currently suffering with the f104s TAF and its so bad, most reliable thing to do is bring rockets and 4 aim9's and hope you make it

[@elnewbie2611]

The F-104 S and TAF are not in a bad position as the ASA, the ASA 11.3 which we all know 11.3 does not exist in Gaijin matchmaking so you're sent to 12.0 right away, while the TAF and S are 11.0, your chances of getting a downtier to 10.7 are significantly greater, I play the F-104G and the TAF seems to be at 11.0-10.7 most of the time (I am an Italian main btw)

[@walkerwhite1167]

French/Italian main here. I played the F-104S TAF when it was first released and that thing is still my best plane to date. It was an incredibly fun plane because of the constant F-5C spammers that don’t pay attention. But since the BR changes. I agree… having fun in this plane is a bygone era. It’s sad. Now as for the Italian F-104S ASA. Yeaaaaa everything he said in the video is accurate and it suffers badly.

[@mattmatt95]

⁠@@walkerwhite1167i need to rank the plane three you recomand the f104 Taf for maybe only base bombing ? I see is only good for this tactic

[@Hellyeah2heaven]

It should be a 12.3 and future 12.7 because it has the AN/ALQ-73. Gaijin just has yet to give it functionality. In short, it uses a radar jammer to avoid being hit by radar missiles. It should be a king at high altitude. (Kinda bullsh*t that they gave it almost no RWR functionality since it historically had no RWR, but didn't give it the ECM that was put in place of the RWR.)

[@lubomirac9287]

Screw moving stuff the only thing needed is changing matchmaking to +-0.7 instead of +-1

[@CommanderQc]

They wont decompress until ground RB BRs are seperate from ARB. They wont make it so that you cannot birng your 13.3 F-16C intro a ground RB with a BR cap of 12.7

[@anguscovoflyer95]

What happened to “it works for me”

[@GroovyIsGroovy]

Happy someone else is bringing this up, there is no understanding or sympathy I can give Gaijin. Problems like this are blatant, common, and mandatory to suffer through. Gaijin will continue to give excuses as they pretend like this isn't some shitty way to entice people to buy top tier premiums to skip these said problems and get right to the good stuff. They are liars, braggarts, and plain outright greedy! No SYMPATHY, ONLY RESULTS! Show us how much YOU care about YOUR game Gaijin.

[@lordwintertown8284]

G'day Lee, Ohh how I really want to enjoy the Aeritalia F-104S.ASA but its shortcomings thanks to BR compression makes me want to drink bleach... Decompression would be amazing & hell it definitely could work even if the devs cry about queue times (bruh 4 mins ain't bad for waiting for a match for it's what I often down in NF on a daily basis while AF at any BR is generally sub a min). On a sidenote what's a chance of making a video on another mildly ehh 11.3? The Dassault Mirage F1CT a rather dull aircraft imo being an attacker classed as a fighter & rather gimped compared to the fighter models of said mirage.

[@GeneralLee2000]

I'll consider making a video on it, but not much has changed on it since the last time I covered the premium F1C. Definitely keep it in mind though!

[@foe111]

Ima bout to get this jet and I’m abt to die

[@georgechrist2886]

I play war thunder for the ASA and the us f104. I think the only thing i personally want as a f104 asa enjoyer is rwr that fucking works, like really no proper rwr for a jet that retired in 04? Bruh

[@parchedbowser]

2:06 Queues on SA servers suck. It takes at least 3 minutes to get a match in the middle of a weekday. And around a minute on weekends. You can only get quick queues in the afternoons and evenings. This isn't to say BR decompression shouldn't happen. Just that bad queue times are real

[@Zarastro54]

Speaking of the Italians, I’m still baffled as to why the sluggish, Korean War era Saggitario and Ariete are 9.0 and 9.3. It’s so slow to get up to speed and easy to lose it that it feels like flying a prop vs jets a lot of the time.

[@maybach5787]

mainly their agility makes them hard as hell to hit, like the Spitfire Mk24, this is a prop at 7.0 so you are facing mostly, if not all jets... and its good because people try to dog fight you at low Alt, instead of going high... or.... running.

[@Mr.Maus.Thunder]

Its like the mig 21 lazur m

[@FallenPhoenix86]

Had my fill of this BS and switched to DCS about a month ago, best move I've made since downloading Warblunder 7 or 8 years ago.

[@wirb3859]

The F-104ASA is actually pretty good in Sim battles, when it is at a lower br and can be the max br of the brackets. Other than that its a straight downgrade to the 104S

[@golden4312]

maybe this is just me being bad but the Japanese f-104J has been pretty miserable to play no counter measures at 10.3

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

I don't know why they don't lower the BR in which you can be up or down tiered. Between 10.3 and 11.3 it's absolute hell in anything but the meta planes, recently i've been trying to play the F4E but it's next to impossible when just 0.3 BR higher than you are planes that are faster, have massively better radars and much better missiles... It's very quickly becoming no fun to play the game

[@mochabear88]

real shit

[@SD-UHD]

General Lee, what do content creators do about this problem? They don't listen to us regular players. Why in the world is this still a thing? How often have you told them to change it?

[@GeneralLee2000]

Me personally usually at least once a month, other CCs do so as well.

[@norliasmith]

The fact the RWR doesn't even work...

[@Dart-One]

gaijin't D:

[@GeneralLee2000]

More starfighter GAMING for your enjoyment 😇

[@Dart-One]

@@GeneralLee2000 i enjoy a lot o7

[@skittlesbutwithchocolatein2274]

“aspide”

[@ProfessorBooty69]

When I load into some games in 11.3 planes. If I see any 12.0> on my team I simply leave and take the crew lock.

[@superpartia3805]

Meanwhile F-4F is 11.0 in sim battles while F-4E is 10.7, good luck playing f-4f against gripens, f-16s and f-15s (sim bracket for 11.0 is 11.0-12.3)

[@prantz3052]

The ASA is unfair compared to F15s and Jas39s, they should move the F104 to 12.7

[@farmcat9873]

Thats just like the F-86 fighting the 9.3 F-104 it shouldn't even happen but that's how fucking horrible it is from 8.7 all the way to the top.

[@theslavicsailor6654]

More gamemodes

[@owpa4971]

03:44 f4s is fine, even for inexperienced players, just watch a couple vids learn how radar works you are set. The gameplay loop of f4s is much much simpler than even a prop aircraft you just got to learn it which is just 2 videos.

[@owpa4971]

I don't get why all these youtubers act like top tier is rocket science.

[@GarrusVA]

For a war thunder veteran like me its pretty hard playing with good jets like mig-23ml when im full up tier I cant even start imagining how it is playing with a brick which aint faster or more maneuverable... Its a friggin game not real life it should be much more fair and balanced the BRs should reach as high as 13+ and in the future it must go above that!!! God damn snail deserves a boycott bigger than the last one

[@_S1mba]

gaijin is so complicit with there game it makes me sick, 10 years... still playing the same gamemodes and thats not even touching on br compression , how hard is it with the resources available to gaijin to give us something new or just even updated

[@obeseufo3707]

feed me harder battles

[@suzybean13]

wassup lee?

[@GeneralLee2000]

Yo! Wassup?

[@JustMinna]

ASA Should be 11.0, 104S 10.7 and italian (not the Chinese or german) 104G 10.3

[@elnewbie2611]

Not really, all they have to do is move every vehicle capable of carrying strong missiles to 12.7, and downtier the one that can carry only aim-9L and below, so anything that can only carry aim-9Ls shouldn't be fighting a vehicle with Aim-9M, it's just unfair how they can simply flare the Aim-9L while you have to dump all your flares to avoid 1 aim-9M

[@Tien-Chi]

Bro the decals 😐

[@GeneralLee2000]

What about them? ))))

[@Boattank]

br compression is better but still horrible we should at least be at 13.0 or 13.3 space out 9.0s seeing aim 9L and r-60mk and 9.3 also space from all aspect missiles. Also 11.3 from 12.3 . Like i want to play the mig-19 but it was not fun at all down teirs you shit on everyone and up teirs you get shit on.i played i a cuple times last 3 weeks mostly up teirs. i can say this for all 9.3s i wish i can go back to the days where mig 19 was top dog

[@AcceptYourDeath]

Decompression never fixed anything and won`t ever, the same way bigger maps doesn`t solve anything for Ground or Air RB. What Gaijin should do and should have done years ago is rethinking their entire gameplay, match structure etc. etc. Look at the early footage and gameplay of Warframe and compare it to what is going on now with this game, then you know what is possible and what you should expect from a game growing and evolving over years and years. Why don`t we have a persistent war as they once tried? Something like Foxhole or Planetside but in WarThunder. Why aren`t there proper PvE modes, actually good ones. A entire dynamic campaign? As far as I am concerned WarThunder is in maintenance mode for quite a while and the money players spent is thunneled into new projects like Crossout, Enlisted, Modern Warships etc.

[@dakromis]

Mosr war thunder players dont even know about the other gaijin titles, this is absolutely what is happening. At the very least, a large amount of their staff that should be working on warthunder are wasting time on these throwaway side projects.

[@arcticiceberg9945]

Where f-15

[@GeneralLee2000]

Outro

[@Enteropy23]

f104a

[@pedrohaggstram]

I think B.R compression, while still bad, it's at the best state in years, especially at top tier. Most 11.3 fighters (notice "figthers") are passable enough and/or have some advantages you can exploit.

[@decold7768]

My mig-23 can destroy anything, be it f-16 or f-15,mig-29 or su-27, not even gripen is safe from me 💀

[@romanzuev2105]

I also like (no) how i seemingly get an 11.3 match in an F4S (my team is all 11.3) but then the enemy f16 and mig 29 show up. stop fucking lying gaijin, your matchmaking is trash either way. i got a burnout from completing the winter event in an F4S playing those top tier games. the 9.0-9.7 uptier is tough yet still playable, the planes there can still compete in some characteristics even without flares/good missiles, it's a skill requirement still, while in 11.3 uptier your result is decided by pure luck, because jets in 12.0-12.3 are better in all aspects (radar, flight model, weaponry). And with that, you really need to rely on the enemy's misplays or situations to do your kills. so yeah, you get a couple of kills if you're lucky, then you most likely get rinsed. the whole experience. snail, fix the fucking game, it's become a torture simulator, not a military one.

[@rags417]

Once again, hearing leet top tier players complain that they can "only" get 2-3 kills per match due to some made up fantasy BR issue just makes me mad. Jesus Christ dude, not everyone is an uber pilot.

[@wokekkk]

The f104 asa m had aim 120 if i remember correctly

[@Beulena.]

Ay yes, the solution to power creep and poor balance: MORE POWERCREEP

[@YourPapa]

"I'm a little big sick" - literally every youtuber, and nobody cares.