Everyone knows that the Xa-38 doesn’t belong at BR3, and I’d just love to hear any counterpoints to that statement.
Compared to the A-20G, it has a better flight model, the same payload, a similar amount of defensive MGs, but trades 4 offensive MGs for the 75mm cannon.
The Xa-38 is at worst a sidegrade to the A-20G and at best it’s an upgrade. For God’s sake move it to BR4 already and add a new aircraft to the tech tree if the U.S. requires a BR3 attacker.
Maybe then I’ll stop hearing the worst balancing ideas I’ve ever heard followed by “Xa-38 is BR3”.
So who needs an XA-38 for a 4th combat rating then? It’s easier for me to get a different aircraft for the 4th BR. Have you even flown the XA-38? It’s not maneuverable.
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It’s not clear why this hasn’t been done yet. A very strong aircraft. I think it’s better than all the ground attack planes of Germany and Japan, even at BR 5.
Well, this vehicle is an event exclusive. Generally speaking, event weapons are superior to battle pass items, which in turn are better than regular tech tree ones. Since it can only be obtained from crates, its rarity deserves a reasonable balancing environment.
Haven’t all of you been utterly wrecked by the four 500-pound bombs of the XA-38? No wonder everyone hates it so much after getting crushed by it. I even want to suggest lowering the BR of the Bf 110 G-2 down to 3.0.
Of course, even American fighters at BR 3 can carry nearly six M8 rockets.
In comparison, the German Fw 190 with only two rockets looks really underpowered.
In short, we have to pay attention to boosting German aerial firepower right now.
Simply nerfing the XA-38 won’t make German vehicles stronger or more playable. We can’t just ban the official premium FP-5 and those aircraft that carry six M8 rockets either.
As the saying goes, you need to be strong yourself to stand firm. The German air force definitely needs proper buffs.
This situation is exactly the same as when players voted to push the German Bf 110 up to BR 4 back then.
I think part of the reason is that many tank players just stay stationary in position without moving, making them easy targets for airstrikes.
German players have already lost access to the Bf 110 G-2. Meanwhile, I don’t want to see the XA-38 get nerfed either.
What I hope for is not to weaken the overpowered Allied firepower, but to give German forces equivalent striking strength to fight back. It is totally different when one side has strong firepower while the other does not.
So then why is the japanese tiger not BR 4 but BR 5 despite sharing a number of flaws with the BR 4 version? If all event items are supposed to be OP then why is the argueable worst tiger for its BR an event one?
Or better yet why was the event german APC then moved to BR 3? It is rare, bulky, and was already nerfed ontop of it so why was it moved up to a BR more fitting for it?
EVENT equals OP is just allied cope that is there to justify powercreep if they feel like it.
Well, how should I put it? The Japanese Tiger is currently at BR 5. From the German players’ perspective, it really ought to be moved down to BR 4. But in the eyes of Japanese players, this tank is a treasure that can outmatch almost all other Japanese armored vehicles.
If you strongly disagree with this arrangement, you can make a forum post about it, and I’ll definitely come back to support you.
To put it straight, the Japanese Tiger is already extremely overpowered. I totally agree to drop it to BR 4. Its performance is basically a mix of different variants, and it even lacks a roof machine gun, so it really needs proper balancing.
I think the recent fierce opposition is mainly because plenty of players are playing German BR 3 content lately.
So we should push to get the Bf 110 G-2 back to BR 3. We should bring the German Bf 110 G-2 back to its rightful BR 3
Only a small number of players use the American XA-38 anyway. There are alternatives like the Havoc and Beaufighter sitting at BR 4, leaving BR 3 with hardly any decent strike aircraft left.
However, these polls can be good or bad, and the final decisions are all made by the official staff.
Take the 40-round magazine for the Browning for example. It gained far more overwhelming support than ours, yet it was never approved. Honestly speaking, I still doubt these polls are just empty gestures.
Votes are still rising. Are there still people defending or criticizing the XA-38?
I really hope Germany gets an aircraft stronger than the XA-38 soon. Right now they only keep getting ground vehicles. It’s about time they get some powerful event planes, that would really boost Germany’s strength. Most new Soviet vehicles are pushed up to BR4 anyway, they might as well not release them at all.
Actually, America doesn’t have decent tech tree attack aircraft at BR3, so those rare event planes end up becoming irreplaceable choices.
Wish they would add the TT already.
Let’s start with the armament. 2x ~250kg ish bombs are the standard armament for BR 3 attacker airplanes for all nations in the game but for some reason, XA-38 gets not x2, not even x3, but whooping 4x 500 lbs bombs for it’s bomb loadout. Now, there are an attacker airplane that has more than 2x 250kg bombs as their loadouts on BR 3. Ju 87 D-3 for example, having 3x 250kg bombs for it’s loadout but as we all know, Ju 87 D-3 is a flying brick(Max speed 420 km/h and climb rate of 11.88 m/s on BR 3? enough said) with pitiful amount of 7mm guns as it’s offensive armament against airplanes.
Now how fast is XA-38? it has 617 km/h max speed as well as 18.02 m/s climb rate. You’d think that an airplane carrying 4x 500 lbs bombs and big ass 75mm cannon mounted(Which, also very good at killing tanks since the tanks you’d faces on, which both japanese and german ones all have paper armor on BR3) on it’s nose as well as 6x 12.7mm guns would be slow but it’s actually the opposite. XA-38 is deceptively fast even when compared to other fast attacker airplanes on BR 3.
It is delusional to think that XA-38 is perfectly fine on BR 3.
So looking at it this way, the only German plane with both a heavy cannon and bombs is the Ju 88 P-1. But it’s not modeled in-game. We can only hope the upcoming D-Day update brings a BR3 gift for German players.
I’d really like to see the Kugelblitz stay at BR3 to keep those planes in check.
