Tbh just fix the issues of Abrams Spanish Avenger listed and be done with it, it’ll be pretty competitive then
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Itll be tied for the best tank in game then.
Then fix all the other bloody tanks as well and well all he happy
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because by Gaijin logic so called strongest ground line up in entire WT history (according by some) need to babies sitting deadweight US Clickbait horde that don’t even know how to play Abrams and I’m kinda sick babysitting them while playing Sweden
Well, it typical for minor nation because the players are so few and most of them are experience players
Sweden luckiest of them all that they have both experience players and Beast like Strv122.
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I do better in the ztz 99 II and III than i do with other trees and they are statistically pretty poor compared to thr 12.0s they face.
Yet i sat with 2 m1a1 HCs firing st me unable to kill me while i killed them both…
How does that work they have the 2nd best top tier round and should be able to have shrecked me.
Us teams are something else, hell even when i take out the m1a2 its the same, they just fold like hot butter.
Strv 122s have slightly worse mobility, same lineup as Germany worse than USA, and matchmaker is identical.
It’s currently competitive, what you mean is it’ll be meta.
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As I said; U.S is generally played by average players, LOTS of them, who just want to have fun playing casually.
Meanwhile, Italy, France, etc, is mostly played by S-Tier players in significantly smaller numbers who flock to weaker niche nations to find a challenge for themselves.
And, as I also stated earlier, matchmaking, etc. Italy will always have a higher WR than U.S for as long as they are matched up with Sweden + Germany + Russia every time.
I don’t think the Abrams is terrible (although it would be much better if it were fixed), but I don’t think it’s great either. Not great, not terrible.
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Soviets having lost their S-tier players recently: “We miss our alleged win rates.”
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So do you think it should or shouldn’t get its various issues fixed? I support everyone else getting their stuff fixed too if you are wondering
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But where is the statistic to show thats who italy is matched with?
I genuinely want to know as i mentioned it earlier, as when i use italy at 9.7 im usually in random af lobbies
Edit as well as this, not everyone can be matched with sweden or germany as well so why are their winrates still higher than the US overall.
There cannot be that many sweat lords
I don’t know if there’s any available statistic, but, based on the several thousand matches I’ve got in Top Tier across 9 nations, I would dare say this to be the case, hahahah.
Matchmaker may be different in lower BRs though, I only know and am talking about Ranks VII and VIII.
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Yeah im at 5 or 6 at top tier now and must say italy i dont reallt see much
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yeah, well that exactly why they become the problem and deadweight, and you can find lot of them complain about how weak Abrams are in the forum
They can casually enjoy the losing all the match all they like i don’t care but they do drag other nation that team up with them down with them that is the big problem.
but for all it worth
Gaijin shouldn’t even sell high tier premium at the begin with.
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Sweden, Russia and Germany can have average players and they will stomp on everything anyway.
But U.S can’t have average players because its vehicles are significantly worse- and, somehow, that’s a player issue instead of a vehicle and balance one…?
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But they arent significantly worse. They are better than russian tanks, on par with tbe 2a5 and maybe 6 due to the reload differences. as well as this the full US lineup is something else.
Issue is no one seems to bother using it, seen a guy earlier with over 2000 games in bis sep v2 alone and left after one death.
He has the full lineup and had a 1.5 roughly KD yet chose to just leave, thst is not the tanks fault at all.
And not every minor nation is full of try hard sweatlords either so its unfair to assume they’re only the pro players.
As most pro players go where the “meta” is, which is why sweden has had very stable win rates at top tier.
I would like to see every nation get its fixes rather than new stuff crammed in every update then move on.
Like the chinese mbts as well have a plethora of issues too
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I don’t think so…
The way I see it, American and Russian MBTs are more or less equivalent in an asymmetrical way.
American tanks are worse in general but have higher potential, while Russian tanks are better in general but have lower potential.
-Abrams: high floor (bad), but high ceiling (good).
In short: harder to do well with for the average player, but easier to do extraordinarily well with for the better player.
-Russia: low floor (good), but low ceiling (bad).
In short: more easy to do well with for the average player, but harder to do extraordinarily well with for the better player.
Basically, Abrams can do great if you spend the entire match hidding behind a hill and only popping 0.17 pixels of your turret to shoot for 0.2 seconds. Dare to play a bit more aggressively and you are dead; on the other hand, Russian tanks can do great if you just kinda rush and brawl, but their weaknesses are more limiting for a more agile player who wants to do even better.
I would like to remind that all of this is not coming from a “U.S main”, an “American fanboy”, or whatever pejoratives may be used to undermine points in favour of the Abrams;
This is coming from someone who has played thousands of matches across the Top Tiers of 8 nations and who is currently grinding her 9th Top Tier nation… someone who has no biases towards nor against any nation and who simply wants the game to be as balanced as possible and for vehicles to be depicted as accurately and fairly as possible, specially since those more often than not come in together.
Yeah, and it’s a shame how Gaijin can’t be bothered to fix them even with the outstanding bug reports there are out there… specially the spall liner related ones.
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Oh im a multi nation player as well i understand you are too.
Generally i agree the sentiment with tbe russian tanks and american.
Regardless of what people will claim i want to see the game historical and balanced.
Not one nation stomping in a rotation like we get currently.
I recenrtly looked into them and theres sooo many reports
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I think I can’t agree with this one.
M1s simply don’t have crippling cons that will greatly affect new players and how they go around a match.
Add DU automatic railcannon to Abrams, problems solve
I think the whole hull is a crippling con, hahahah.
The turret, gun and mobility are great, yes; but the hull is a disgrace. It has zero armor and all the crew and modules are tightly cramped together, so if you are lucky enough to survive 1 shot, you are incapable of moving, aiming or shooting at all, making you a sitting duck to be finished off on a second shot.
Of course, if you spend the whole match hidden behind a hill and popping 0.2 pixels of the turret every 0.5 seconds, you will ofsett this weakness… but I would not say a tank that requires such gameplay to be that good when there are other tanks that can not only do that much better, but also do much more, such as rushing and brawling thanks to their extraordinarily superior armor and survivability.
Thing is; the Abrams hull could be MUCH better even without DU still if they fixed the fuel tank bulkhead thicknesses and added its missing plates, if they corrected the position of the hydraulic pump, added the UFP reinforcements at the front of it, etc.
But even then, I believe SEPv3 with unquestionable improved hull armor is long overdue… it should have come along with the 2A7s.
And it would be worth investigating SEPv2 and AIM’s potentially upgraded hulls as well. Most sources point towards this being a thing, even if there are no literal GDLS documents specifically stating it signed by the president.
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80% abrams im killing with leos is by hull shot, no need to think, just aim there and boom
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