I like this Idea but If you humour me, I think I can make a case that it’ll cause more problems than it solves.
I’ll use the Leopard 2 as an example instead of the Abrams to illustrate the point. Italy, France, Germany and Sweden have Leopard 2s in their tech trees. Additionally, Germany and Sweden also have rank VII premium Leopard 2s at 10.7 and an 11.7 for Germany. Lets say I’m a recent player but have a Swedish Leopard 2 and a decent amount of experience using it, what’s stopping me from then abusing the separate lobby to exploit the skill deficit of new players who buy premium tanks until I hit BR8.7 in Germany, additionally I could simply elect not to purchase vehicles past 8.7 and abuse the matchmaker until I’ve theoretically ground out the entire ground tree.
Another unfortunate consequence is that it doesn’t solve the issue of inexperienced players filling up lobbies at various battle ratings. In the 9 years that I’ve been active in this game, there has never not been a time when players bought a top tier vehicle and proceeded to clog up lobbies and ruin games. It happens when there’s a vehicle event, it happens during the battle pass, it happens whenever there are sales in the store.
Last time I was this early and I suggested that we make USA a “minor nation”, someone doesn’t understand what I meant, maybe it’s impossible in terms of matchmaking time because of the number of players on USA team.
There are tons of them and it near Christmas it gonna be worse i never get 10 lose streak with Sweden before clickbait was in the game but after them it can happen two times within a week because MM love putting me with them there a lot of times that i single hardly protected their defenseless clickbait from Enemy CAS and hope “oh i prevent them from getting bomb by KH-38 i hope they can take care themselves” until Scoreboards show me the horrors that half of them has left the match without single kill yeah my good intentions was shattered within seconds
I would love nothing more than putting all of them on the same team it gonna be like shooting fish in the barrel
Can Gaijin stop pairing deadweight GRM, JPN, RUS, IR, UK, FR, IT, SWN, and CN teammates with anyone?
Every nation has piss-poor players no matter what. No matter what team you on it’s not gonna make a difference. Just be the better player even if it means carrying.
If i can choose i’ll choose German teammate or even Russian above US at top tier any days
Every nation have piss poor players sure i’ve seen them all but US it far beyond save beyond carry they are next evolution of piss poor especially clickbait players which is 85percent of US players nowadays
Any time or events that could influence the player count of USA mains, its time to revisit lower brs that could help you avoid dealing with that bunch lol I THINK you will like 9.0, you don’t even need to use CAS there and USA has one badass SPAA named M247.
You know what funny part? i even goes back playing Russia after I didn’t touch them for years and see if i can avoid team with US because every nation i had at top tier it always against Russia and US gonna be on my team
didn’t work out for me I cannot escape them maybe i should quit top-tier.
I have thought about that. My solution for that is that people only get separate lobbies if them have the required gap in ranks in all nations. In your example, if you grinded out the tech tree Swedish Leopard 2s, you still wouldn’t get the separate lobbies because the rank gap is not met in Sweden. It also helps experienced players who buy premium vehicles to grind new trees after completing one by still giving them the normal lobbies instead of the ones full of premium tanks.
Makes sense, I figured it would be on a “per tech tree basis”. Still, i feel like this alienates the paying customers, say what you want about the whales and impulsive shoppers, they’re supporting the game we like and they deserve the right to suck arse with their shiny new toys.
I think the more productive thing would be to make youtube guides for the players who jump up to high BRs with premiums. I for one am the equivalent of the clickbait spammer but in the chines premium Mig 17. Im utterly dogshit at jets but Im having a go
Man, you should see me with my new MiG-21 Bison. It flies like a Rocket and explode like a cracker. What an experience!!!
1 vehicle quitters are awful, but even I did this in my early years of War Thunder. I know its bad and stuff but dont blame the new guys arriving in the game. There a lot of 20K + battles players taht are doing the same. It is not fault of only the new players that are already supporting the game imho
Many years ago someone created a strategy for the Match Maker that would consider the Number of Vehicles available for both teams to the same. I dont recall the details cause Im creeping fking old but I believe that would be the only way to proper balance this.
People complain a lot in the GRB, specially for the “Russian BIAS” ghost which is not true. What happens is that most of the time, some good players have a lot of crews and do 4+ respawn in one battle.
Simplest solution:
People with only one premium cant do that. For this, my solution on this situation is that vehicles from premium packs should have 40 Backups instead of 20. And if a Tank is bought trough the website, it should have a 20 days grace period of using 2 respawns per battle.
This brings more value to the AAA priced packs in the shop and also helps populate the high BR matches.
All I read is you rather take players who can’t see anything unless it’s directly in front of them and I mean that literally as in 1 cm in front. To someone who probably is capable of registering this is an enemy from a mile away despite the stereotypical ego of I’m invincible even though it was purely due to strategical and tactical doctrines.
You know that German top tier players vs low to mid-tier are not the same level, right? well they seem way smarter than low mid-tier counterpart at least they can handle themselves
in top tier if i had to choose big three nation on my team I’ll take German above RU and ofc total deadweight US of A