Balancing Issues and Favoritism Towards Russia at Top Tier — Gaijin Neglects France and Italy to Please Players of Major Nations

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Honestly, the top-tier balancing in War Thunder has become unbearable.

Seeing a team with 6 SU-30SMs, 2 SU-25SMs, and Ka-50/52s, while T-90Ms tank 500 mm arrows at point-blank range without flinching, is total nonsense. We fire shells that should go through anything, yet they bounce. But when it’s the other way around, we get one-shot in the blink of an eye.

The favoritism towards Russia isn’t just a feeling, it’s a reality. Their aviation, tanks, helicopters — everything is more powerful, better protected, and way too cheap to spawn.

Meanwhile, players running France literally get wiped out. Why? Because the French tech tree severely lacks useful top-tier vehicles, especially:

  • No modern IFVs with anti-tank missiles and proper anti-air capabilities.
  • Very few options to counter helicopters or planes late in the game.

Result: at top tier, playing France means getting crushed unless you use multi-nation combos or cheat with premiums.

Allies, especially the Chinese, aren’t much better: they spawn J-10s just to camp at the edge of the map, AFK or out of action. Plus, there are level 10 premium vehicles accessible to anyone, which means inexperienced players spawn, die in 30 seconds, and quit the match.

This isn’t matchmaking anymore; it’s organized chaos.

The imbalance is glaring. Nations like France and Italy are treated like filler trees, with no real effort to upgrade them.

At some point, Gaijin needs to stop favoring certain nations at the expense of all others. Because this kind of treatment kills the desire to play.

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If you don’t want the topic to get closed, I’d recommend listing this topic to the france tag. As maybe some moderator might not completely read it all and think it’s a general ‘russian bias’ coping thread.

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ok thx

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Title if possible too, try to include france in it, as it’s what you play and you experience in the game. It does not prevent it completely from getting closed but yeah.

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here before thread lock for making a good russian bias argument

France is awful at top tier and its only saving grace is the Rafale. which cant do anything because of the pantsir. a russian spaa hard counters the only strong point

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I just cant get it. Even F18 doesnt “struggle” against pantsirs. So how somethgin smaller, better flightmodel and better CAS loadout struggles against it.
I’ve lately decided to start from airfield on F18 , and it makes everything so much simpler.

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True, I don’t play France but I’ve played with them and against them and I can say that there’s a huge difference when they get paired with Russia. I know the feeling of getting paired with useless teammates too (I’m not saying I’m the best or something similar), as they just don’t use the map, they go and take a stroll with their planes and that’s all about it. And with the usual Click-bait wave, you know you’ll get obliterated in the first 5 minutes (sometimes the spawn camp starts just five minutes after the start, with only 4 people struggling to even get out). I mean, I don’t expect them to do much, but at least bring something more to be the bait, so I can kill the enemies, hehe. Anyways, I at least do have some (over-BRd in my opinion) spike carriers (Namers) and that’s all about it. Can’t say much about Israel’s (inexistent) top tier SPAA, though.

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such thing could only be said by:

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Yeah, soviets were my first what i played.
Now I usually play 12.7 USA , or 12.3 German.
Maybe you should try to play also something else vs Brits so you wont be crying so much in here ?
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Damn , evil pantsirs…

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the problem is not the pansir or playing another nation it is the match making in games their anti air is shit if any nation falls with the Russians the game is won but on the contrary if we fall against the Russians we lose except if we do not have 10 wallet-warriors the su35sm is a virus even more if there are k50/52 they are calamitous there is no other term

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They just have to make sure that all the other nations are against the Russians in the top tier.

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“Balancing Issues and Favoritism Towards Russia at Top Tier”
Yeah remove that you lose credibility within 3 seconds of them opening the thread.

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If you open my statcard 10 out of the 34 vehicles are Russian, but in my last 2 months of playing the game my 25th most played vehicle is Russian. Use sessions not the vehicles tab.

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That I’ve experienced it too. Russians lose when I go with them and win when I’m against them, even when they are paired with the infamous USA. I feel that whenever US mains start a game, they first look and see if they’re against USSR or not and then they either one-death-leave or stay. I’ve seen hundreds of HSTV-Ls one death leave and it does get frustrating.

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Oh, for crying out loud, Gaijin! Are you even trying to pretend this is a balanced game anymore, or have you just handed over the codes to Mother Russia on a silver platter? I swear, every blasted match I get into turns into a Potemkin parade—T-34s popping up out of nowhere, slapping my Panther into dust before I even catch a glimpse of them! It’s like you’ve got some secret deal with the Kremlin, every stat buffed to high heaven while my German steel is reduced to glorified target practice!

And don’t get me started on the matchmaking “system.” You call it a “research-based algorithm,” but I call it a Soviet propaganda machine. One minute I’m top-tier, and the next I’m thrown into a lineup of Tiger IIs against IS-3s that soak up my APCR like tissue paper. Oh, but hey, at least the Russians get APHE that shreds side armor from 800 meters—no skill required! Meanwhile, my APCR bounces off the front glacis like a rubber ball. Brilliant design, Gaijin. Truly inspired.

Do you even play your own game? Or do you just sit there stroking your own wallets while your community bleeds out? I’ve seen more balance in a drunken toddler’s teeter-totter. Everybody knows that Russian bias isn’t a bug—it’s a feature! Why else would you keep pumping those Soviet brutes with overpowered shells and god-mode armor? It’s like you’re on a mission to rewrite history, but instead of heroic Russian victories, it’s heroic Russian fragging of anybody who dares to bring a non-T-54 to the party.

And the worst insult? Whenever we bring these issues up, the forums fill up with your shills telling us we’re “trash players” or “just need to learn to flank.” Oh sure, let me know how I’m supposed to flank when my Tiger is bouncing shots off T-44s that should have exploded into scrap the moment they crossed my sights! “Learn to play,” they say—my driving skills would shame a Panzer ace, but apparently you need a degree in Soviet shell ballistics to score a kill.

So go ahead, Gaijin—keep giving Russia all the love. Keep feeding your precious “Russian bias” until every player who cares about historical accuracy and fair gameplay quits in disgust. Because at the rate you’re going, I might be next. But mark my words: when the last Wehraboo stomps out, we’ll remember who sold out the community to the Motherland’s might. Until then, good luck enjoying your one-sided Potemkin tank ballet. I’ll be here, sharpening my keyboard and my criticism. This Wehraboo Rant was made by ChatGPT
REAL 3.7 RUSSIA FOOTAGE !!!1111!!!1111!!!

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May I ask how France is so so much worse than Russia at top tier when they have 3 times as many top tier capable MBTs? And that’s not including the 2nd best CAP plane in the game, and no top tier premiums to bring their performance down.

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all the leclerc are made of paper an arrow we die the internal armor gaijin refuses to add it the rafale is good but due to the origamy tank which serves as our top tier we make it spawn once every 2 or 3 games and very often we get our ass raped by r77-1