tfw your entire soviet lineup is 5.3 and you get used to being uptier'd to 6.3 so you think the 6.0-7.0 BR range is no big deal but then you unlock the T-34-85(5.7) and ohgodohgod all is not good because now you're getting constantly uptiered to 6.7 and everything there wants to and definitely will kill you.
The matchmaker has been shit for years and I doubt it'll ever change sadly given Gaijin's attitude of 'just make more content, maybe they'll forget about the real issues'.
I swear I've been put into matches where people on my team were fielding reserve tanks up to 2.0, but at least one 3.0 tank was on the other team, gg gayjunk
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centauro is bae
I rather enjoyed my entire team of M103s/M60s at 7.7-8.0 with exactly two players above that BR range get mopped up by a horde of premium-based MBT murder machines (mostly Leopard L/44s and some 74Gs, about 8+) in mere minutes. My favorite engagments occur 100m from the spawn because we can already see each other 10s into the match and all have access to 300-400mm pen APDSFS rounds that fly at 1300m/s+ and thus require very little adjustment to even use at ridiculous distances.
(And if they don't instantly kick you back to the vehicle selection screen, you'll get stuck with a 40-50s repair time to do anything because sure-as-shit you're going to lose something or another.)
End game is such a shitshow right now I'm not sure why anyone would bother taking the game seriously past Era III/IV anymore. The buck at least stopped at 10.0, but with the new 390,000RP goodies being the exact same things we had but better, at the same battle rating, I'm trying to find some other crackcocaine to turn to because I'm not sure how much longer I can take this without more tanks to grind. Air RB is stagnant, Navy is is a wonky mess that's enjoyable for about one match, and Helicopter battles are an experience of finding something fuckin' else to do for repeat five minute flyouts into comically awful and un-engaging combat.
I use to repeatedly ignore naysayers every patch, but I kinda feel like we're approaching the beginning of the end without some kind of sweeping incentive or change because a few more of these buggy powercreep patches are going to break people. (And also said this same thing basically back in like.. 2017 so I'm clearly a reliable source ) However, before was kinda par for the course. Suddenly we get Era 6, visually pretty but gameplay-terrible helicopters, and Era 5 premiums - and before people have even screwed their heads back on they sloppily pushed out Era 7 (and 6 premiums??) and some other interesting but ultimately quite broken mechanics. It's the kinda thing that makes me reinstall WoT for morbid curiosity before assuming a fetal position in a corner after demoing it for a few minutes and remembering I lost some year(s?) of my life to that.
@Doom14 Wanna go halvsies on an AVRE? Centurion AVRE 165 Tank For Sale
I think 90% of my deaths in BRs 7.7+ has been either by L/44 A1A1s, T-55AM-1s or XM-1s. I don't remember when I last time had a match with no +3 premiums per team.
Thanks to you guys opening my eyes to the mad RP/SL grinds, the fucko bonkers powercreep, the sometimes totally random BR changes, and the utter joke balance can be, I am legit scared of leaving tier III in anything, any nation, any mode.
rank 5 isn't that bad as long as you stay away from the 8.7 blackhole and even then you can have heaps of fun uptiering yourself in gokarts; some of my most fun games have been fighting 9.7s in the R3, just zipping around the map at the speed of light deploying recoilless justice into their juicy parts
8.0 is still hell due to 8.7-9.0 super premiums.
Rank 5 is fun in the right vehicles, namely something with high mobility and decent penetration. Anything else is a big case of "why are you even bothering."
If it was in the US I'm seriously considering picking up some scrap vehicle for a long-time project. I was super excited for a old halftrack before learning they're apparently major nightmares in turns of being money pits.
stay away from the 8.7 blackhole as in playing at 7.3 or below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TODr5NKNuCg
They're suppose to. At least for more modern vehicles.
https://i.imgur.com/6jKznao.jpg
Only if the game released new world war 2 content
TBH there's kinda not all that much more WWII content that can be added I feel. I am 100% prepared to be proven wrong with a huge list of shit, though.
Well on the brighter side of things I've killed 161 players in the Panzerwerfer.
https://i.imgur.com/M8qfeRx.jpg
The panzerwerfer is actually a pretty good money maker paired with the HS129-B2, thanks to the low spawn cost.
what's that? you want rank 8 tanks tovarisch???
I want some better maps and settings tovarisch.
I just want effective spawn protection for all vehicle modes pls tovarisch how much must I bleed for motherland Gayjinks?
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very cool, thank you gaijin
There is a gigantic list of vehicles since the Spanish civil war that do not appear in war thunder. Mostly because they're subtypes or variants of existing vehicles that don't offer much in the way of playstyle differences. Mostly asked for on reddit, gaijiggle plz.
But considering how similar these new top tier vehicles play to the existing ones. I'd say that's irrelevant at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNkuv8QVIzk
soi soi soi soi soi
Cant wait for the UFO's guys!
We already have those they're called the British/Japanese/German/nationIdon'tlike aviation trees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H93zV7Dpec4
Boy I sure do enjoy waiting for my games to update.
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T-44-85 but every time you die the repair costs get ever closer to the first Abrams for no particular reason.
I mean seriously I get that the hull is really good when angled against everything short of HEATFS but the mediocre turret and the fact that the gun is basically useless outside flanking at it's BR or higher means you're gonna die an awful lot and those repair costs really really hurt if you get oof'd before making a kill or two. (also, shoutout to the fact that the later / better gunned version is actually cheaper)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgwBrzzVow
jesus christ
Meanwhile on reddit people can't stop jacking themselves off over the 2a5 being "overpowered and unbalanced" because you now have to 1 shot it through the hull with sabot rather than the turret like every other nations high tier tanks.
Giving Russia the tunguska and no one else surface to air missiles is a fucking joke, in the hands of anyone with half a brain it can 100% deny airspace to the entire enemy team by itself.
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