[Discussion] Balance, Bias, Matchmaking and Battle Ratings

dude, typhoon CAN turn, it just rolls like shit

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it’s a low velocity 75 so it’s still allergic to doing anything to shermen or soviet tanks unfortunately, at least it’s a little harder to kill you (if your enemy is stupid)

you could improve the game overnight by hardware banning everyone with that stupid missing tooth aviator pfp

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you mean ovechkin?

Yes. 100% of people with this pfp are the most annoying people of all time and they know it.

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same with chinese officer or motorbike girl

It’s not confirmation bias. Bringing up 2 tanks that could sit one single BR higher is NOT the same as showing a video of a tank’s ERA clearly overperforming, of which people have shared the same experience. I have personally never experienced that with chinese or NATO ERA. Only russian Relikt and Kontakt-5 to similar extents.

Yes it is. Without any actual reliable large dataset it is just that.

the 75 in the m3 is a b1 style 75 it’s very awkward to use and I don’t think it’s good practice to increase the BR of a vehicle just because good players are using it (looking at france)

I still don’t think the Churchill 7 is very good. You’re still allergic to doing anything to soviet tanks or shermen (volumetric makes the weakspots say kys), you’re slow, you aren’t hard to kill despite the sheer amount of armor, and the matchmaker prioritizes giving you uptiers because so many slop enjoyers are playing the tiger. It’s a low velocity mid pen shell in a BR bracket where range is becoming more important than ever and having to take the time to rangefind is going to get you killed. Sure, you can stomp in down tiers, but you can arguably stomp even harder in an avenger or a firefly. The tank is still subpar. Playing super aggressively helps, and is made easier now that the ammo actually does something, but you’re so easily barreled and outflanked that if the team is even moderately aware you’re not getting more than like 2 kills. When this thing works and you’re taking hits not dying and getting like 6-10 kills it’s fun as fuck, but that goes for almost any heavy in the game.

It has often been suggested on this forum that playing 5.7 (Germany) pulls you UP to fight 6.7 enemies.

It’s not a german or BR problem. Whatever BR you queue for, you’re going to get uptiered constantly. Despite the fact that most of these BRs have more than enough players to fill an appropriately BR’d game. You queue 5.7 you play 6.7 games. Queueing for 6.7 you better be prepared to fight the Maus! 7.7 and 8.7 may as well be the same BR at this point with how many uptiers you’re getting. This is especially frustrating for churchill enjoyers like myself because holy fucking shit the Churchill 3 gets 5.0 games CONSTANTLY

I wasn’t suggesting Germany is the only nation that gets sucked up to 6.7.
It just happens to be a popular one.

But my point was, the Tigers (E, H) are getting uptiered at least, if not more, than the 4.7 vehicles (like Churchills) they are facing. At least that’s the “word on the street”.

it’s near constant for everyone, slopTiger players are just more numerous than churchill players so they drown out the discourse

The word is correct

MM is 100% rigged.

Before 14.7 air. Playing 13.7 was downtiers for days.
14.7 only added to save premium flankers. Players rejoice as decompression… reality is 13.7 now plays top tier all day.

When 14.0 was TT…
Playing 13.0- 14 was mixed. As many uptiers as down, it was great as no + 0.7 (14.7) to rig the games.

I never could get convinced big map glazers are these kind of players who cannot make kills without “realistic” selfie stick making these interactions between players uncounterable


Fym mid round, it has better gun than the 2A4, same or better armor

these maps are what I refer to as sniperslop. it’s all sightline, very little cover, and fucking ginormous. they are not good.

what do I suppose to do against premium USS Iowa(Maryland) which has better gun than Iowa with my USS Wyoming? What kind of brain arranged these naval BRs

Abrams is love, abrams is life.

What’s not to love about a fast tank, with great reload, good armour and M829A3