I’ve had tens if not hundreds of matches where i was playing against 1.0 stronger vechicles or players that are 100lvl and have 7 premiums in their lineup. honestly id rather wait 3-4 min for a game to find a match rather than get killed over and over again. The main problem is with ground battles, in aviation its half bad, you get an up tier, if you know how to keep your energy, turn, where to turn and dont get 5v1’d youll be fine, in ground no matter how good you play, how many respawns you do, if you have a 1.0 up tier its over, not once i had a situation where i flanked half of the enemy team only to shoot the back of their turret and get a non pen. with my best tank i couldnt pen a single thing, its not about speed anymore its about who can get lucky enough to be in a indestructable box and who gets screwed. With high level players i suggest a skill based match making, lets say i have a kdr or 1.2 someone who has lvl 5 and someone with a lvl 100 can play together if they have the same ratio, similar hits, non pen’s on them, respawns, hits, crits, blah blah. but whats the point when i get a lvl100 player with krd of 3 and whole lineup of premium’s.
What BR are you playing at? Becuase there are some BRs where you only get uptiers because of certain factors like there being few planes of the same BR as you or maybe the uptier BR being really popular with loads of planes.
Its definetively possible to perform well in full uptier. Not always, its more often than not heavily map dependent, but it is possible. Im little bragging here, but pic above is game where i managed to get nuke with Shermal (Hell), a 5.7 medium, in full uptier against Germany, ie. Tiger II (H)s and what not.
ok but you remove the pressure for players to get better at game. What will motivate you to do better if you can just adopt one playstyle and consistently perform the same?
For example, if you consistently make some mistake but players of your skill level will never be able to counter it or punish it, you will keep making the same mistake and never unlearn it.
having lvl 100 and having 7 premiums in your lineup does not mean said player would do well. Im level 100, I could buy full premium naval lineup but i never played naval beyond few games. Level 30 that played nothing but naval and has only TT ships would mop the floor with me without breaking a sweat.
If you know what you are doing uptiers don’t really matter most of the time.
I played with my friend some time ago and he wanted to play 6.7 germany. Since my 6.7 french lineup got moved to 7.0 I played 6.0. after 10 battles I was still first or second on the team every time (I mean midtier german players are ass but still).
I then decided that was not enough and switched to my 5.0 lineup spawning first spawn with the 4.3 AMX-13 (why that is 4.3 when the M-24 is 3.7 is beyond me) and I still managed to reliably top the leaderboard most matches.
If you know what you’re doing you can do well.