Is there bias in matchmaking?

From the Cent. Mk2s gun to the 84mm to the 120mm that the conquerer has, I have yet to have a problem, unless I really mess up a shot.

Post pen damage is less sometimes sure, but I hardly non penned

wHY DiDnT hE exPLoDE??

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I agree that the conqueror is good but let’s face reality, you’ll be uptiered in it up to 8.7 the vast majority of the time.

And yes it can very well perform in uptiers, I love that thing but I despise it’s massive weakspot that is the mantlet, it can be frontally penned by some SPAAS lol…

The 120mm apds is very clunky and you very often needs more than 1 shot to destroy an opponent and well with a 18-16 second reload, you’re at a massive disadvantage.

That being said, when employed well in a hull down position and at the rear cause the damn side plates on this thing are only 51mm you can wreak havoc, you have a good gunner zoom and a rangefinder so it’ a pretty good sniper.

Brit 7.7 is a very nice lineup, beside the scimitar and fox, I just can’t make them work at all for me but the Caervarnon is a very good tank, centurion when well employed is good too but the APDS performs poorly and it’s a well known fact.

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Brits and Germans have broken 6.7/7.7 br’s,not going to mention Italians since they are just MG food at those BR’s
Both get constantly uptiered and neither has an answer to constant heat/darts they encounter
Both USSR & US got prototypes to fill that gaping hole ,we got nothing.
Reason we get uptiers is that other nations don’t play lineups they have on those BR’s ,knowing that they will get downtiered.
Only US players you will see playing 6.7 lineups are ones that are unlocking stuff further up the tree,same with RU . At least you have some planes there.

Now waiting for inevitable “Maus” ,“Tiger 105” and such replies

Def sounds like a case of confirmation bias here

You get more uptiers in certain br ranges because of certain premiums.
Lets say you play 7.7, there are some very good premiums at 8.0, 8.3, and 8.7 that are played very often. When you play these premiums yourself, you tend to stay at their br (as soo many people play them). But play a different br (and sometimes nation) you will often get dragged into these matches.

You can abuse this with some tanks like the Chieftain mk10 and often get downteired bc it hits 8.0 but can’t be brought into the premium 10.3 lobbies. The main culprit is compression. Britain specifically has a very compressed 7.7 to 8.7 region that is not very fun to play in because of the tech gap between not only its own tanks, but also tanks of other nations (think Centurion mk3 against T55amd1).

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For me its complete opposite expirience. Britsh 8.7 get downtieres much more than anything else. Specially israel.
8.0 is another thing

don’t worry they got nerfed by a bug report which was pure guesswork so they are completely unviable for above 7.0 now

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Yeah I figured lol.

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in their current state id genuinley place them at 7.0 with the FV4004 and AVRE they are trash now. I was a fox main before it got gimped, it cant keep up with clovis or XM800 at all now

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i find there is bias but only at certain brs not countrys example 6.0s fight 7.0 to 6.7 every match

especially the xm800, that thing is evil and surprisingly very survivable if you don’t hit the ammo…

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in this game there are vacum brs and some countrys have more vehicles close to vacum brs example german 6.0s have to fight 6.7 almost every match while most 5.7s dont