For some reason, whenever I play against the USSR, I suddenly don’t have enough skill. For example, in the previous battle I was on the same team as the USSR, and all the Mavericks from the A-10A destroyed their targets perfectly. But the moment I start playing against the USSR, my skill just evaporates. Mavericks stop doing damage, and shells seem to disappear into the armor. What am I doing wrong?
Yeah, I know many “experts” will say that I should have aimed the Mavericks at the Terminator’s lower front plate or the driver’s hatch. Please help me improve my skill.
for the bmpt, just ignore it bro not worth worrying about, its just an overmodelled tank, has similar problems to the xm246 where it has so many large modules that just absorb damage, plus none of the mavericks hit the hull of the vehicle which is basically the only place they would do any damage to it, but with mavericks its impossible to target specific parts reliably
but more in general, its not worth paying too much attention to the hit analysis, as it falls heavily victim to client desync because it is fully clientside, that T-80UD shot almost certainly didnt hit where the hit analysis says it did, and some of those mavericks hit obstacles around the bmpt and exploded preemptively
As one of the posters has mentioned, with the server desync, lag, bad coding, let alone the unbalanced nature of the game due to the BR system and matchmaking plus of course the endemic cheating.
To be honest the game is very very RNG dependent, like you are flailing around around in a dark room with a blindfold on trying to hit something that may or may not be there a very poor gaming experience.
You’re not crazy honestly, Soviet ERA and volumetric spaghetti can make Mavericks feel insanely inconsistent sometimes.
A few things are probably happening here:
Mavericks hate ERA
Mavericks also hate steep angles
Kontakt eats a stupid amount of damage in WT sometimes
If the missile hits optics/ERA edges/barrels first, the penetration gets really weird
Against most USSR top tier stuff, especially Terminators/T 80s/T 90s:
center mass is ironically one of the worst places to hit.
What usually works better for me:
Roof shots
Engine deck
Side shots into turret ring area
Slight offset from center instead of directly into ERA bricks
Also remember:
A 10 Mavericks are strong, but they’re not “delete everything” buttons anymore. USSR top tier specifically is probably the most resistant lineup to them because of ERA + weird damage models.
Another thing people forget:
when USSR is on your team, they’re usually already damaging targets before your Maverick lands, so you think the missile did all the work.
Then when you fight them alone at full HP, suddenly the missile feels weak.
If you want more consistency:
Fire from higher angle dives
Avoid flat frontal shots
Aim slightly beside ERA blocks
Go for mobility kills first if needed
Don’t trust stat card penetration numbers too much in actual matches
WT top tier ground is honestly half weapon knowledge and half learning what the damage model decides to sacrifice to the snail gods that day.
I love how little Ukrainian drones destroy Soviet tanks like they are warm butter, but you can hit a tank with a round that has five times the amount of explosives and it does no damage in the game… But there’s no Russian bias…🤷
