Playing 10.7 Just to Be Cannon Fodder for 11.7 is Insane

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War Thunder’s battle rating system has reached a level of absurdity that’s genuinely killing the fun. You grind your way to 10.7, hoping for balanced matches and some competitive gameplay, only to get dumped into lobbies with 11.7 monsters 80% of the time. It’s not just unbalanced — it’s unplayable.

Why is there even a 10.7 if it’s just a stepping stone for 11.7 players to farm? The idea of a fair fight is completely dead. When you’re in a Leopard 2A4, getting steamrolled by Click-Baits/Typ 90s/Fujis and T80Us or top-tier jets every match, the game stops being skill-based and becomes a masochistic grind.

Gaijin needs to either:

  • Widen the BR range to decompress top tiers.
  • Split matchmaking queues more smartly.
  • Or start actively listening to the community who’s been yelling about this for years.

This game has so much potential, but the current BR system makes it feel like a rigged uphill battle that rewards nothing but frustration.

Anyone else just sick of this crap?

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That’s why you go with a 10.3 lineup. It’s much more relaxing than dealing with premium spam. There are so many prems at 11.7 that you will almost always get an uptier. I tend to have fun with this linup at 10.3

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I’ve tested a lot of aircraft in war thunder and I think I can opine in an informed way and state that going any higher than 0.7 br spread is simply uncompetitive.

I’ll stop there because that was my finding over years of flight testing and this doesn’t need to be a wall of words stating the obvious.

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I would if the only thing in the sweden 10.3 lineup that resembles a tank wasnt a premium. You are kinda locked to 10.7 and then it jumps straight to 12.0

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Just avoid GRB. Putrid gamemode.

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Germany and USSR 10.7 is fun if you have the right vehicles. Britain 10.7 is beastly.

It’s very nation dependent.

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Edit: MB didnt realise this is about ground

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10.7 ground is entirely decompressed. There is no more decompression to do there.
You at most see 4 11.7s.

11.7 tanks are only usually better in ammo and front array armor.

Type 90s are Leopard 2A4s with a faster top speed, DM33, and faster reload.

10.7 is among the easiest BRs I play.

@MOBB
Yeah the obvious is that BR 1.0 match maker is the best system ever devised for these games.

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1.0 is far to high for some brs .7 would be more favorble

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For exactly 0.7 BRs That’s less than 10% of BRs in-game.
Decompressing 2.7 is a better fix than ruining 90% of vehicles with less balanced diversity.

The match maker should never be compressed. NEVER.
Go play World of Tanks if you like that match maker.

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Almost every game at 10.7 being an uptier is a unique and undeniable problem that only happens at this specific tier. 10.7 might be decompressed but 11.7 is horribly compressed and it leads to an incredible amount of uptiers at 10.7.

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.7 max uptiers would fix the game though and would help with ghost BRs 1.0 is a old relic from the past from when the day was low player count

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also almost every new top tier causes compression so if you make it max .7 even if they add a new compression tank or plane it wont be as bad some day hopefully it gets to .3

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It wouldn’t. It would compress the match maker BRs.
If compression was ever above 60% it would’ve helped, but BR compression only ever went to 25%.

Decompressing the final BRs is superior to ruining the match maker by copying World of Tanks.
There have been zero new top BR tanks in years.

@ThiccoIai
Uptiers are a sign of a healthy BR when the maximum top vehicles is 4 per side.
11.7 is the least compressed BR in the game.
Evidence is M1A1 being 11.3 while Leclerc is 12.0.
That would not be the case even if it was compressed.

BRs being compressed would see downtiers because of the BR being unpopular due to said compression, which is what you get with 9.3 air.
It’s not a guarantee, but it’s one of many signs in-game.

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Just say no to uptiers.
Gaijin cannot force you to play uptiers without your consent.

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the problem with them decomp is a bandaid soulution that comes once a century as soon as next toptier vehicles come it will compress again ,.7 lessen compression as youd only be fighting vehicles .7 above your BR like fighting max 6.7 instead of 7.0

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Why do you insist on presenting opinions as fact?

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Yes, I get you argue decompression is a band-aid and that matchmaker compression is necessary.
There have been zero new power-creeping top BR tanks since the M1A2 Abrams.

0.7 BR compression in the match maker harms my fun as people would bring less diverse lineups.

The BRs are not and have never been above 50% in War Thunder, it’s never even been above 25%. And how I know it’s never been above 25% [3.3 BRs] is because of the 1.3 BRs of decompression, all that’s needed is 1 more BR of decompression in air and air is entirely decompressed.
That’s 2.3 BRs of decompression total, all to make sure 8.7 never sees the powerful 9.7s anymore. 13.0 never sees 12.0 anymore. And a 3rd BR for good measure.

The fact that a deleted post said the pro-compression playerbase hates me is proof enough.
I’ll keep being pro-decompression where compression still exists.
I’ll keep stating facts.

Arguments that claim decompressed BRs are compressed is why intelligent people stop taking the decompression crowd seriously.

Lying about where decompression is only hurts the pro-decompression stance.

@ThiccoIai I never once stated that my opinion of pro-decompression is a fact.

Though, overt lies about where decompression exists is testing my stance.
I see pro-status quo opinions in rather intelligent communities, and with posts lying about where compression exists I see more and more why they are pro-status quo.

There is zero evidence of 11.7 being compressed.
M1A1 is 11.3 while Leclerc is 12.0
M1A1HC is 11.7 while M1A2 SEP and Leopard 2A5+ are 12.0.
Those are extremely similarly capable tanks that are separate BRs, which would not be the case in normal decompression, let alone compressed BRs.
In BR compression M1A1 would be the same BR as Leopard 2A5.
Leclerc is just over-BR’d for the ammo it’s firing.

11.7 Leopard 2s fire DM43 & KEW, with a bit more armor than the standard 2A4.
1 entire BR of separation for an ammunition change and extra external armor.

This hostility is why I’m pro-decompression and anti-compression.
Webster English dictionary is used for all words.

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Youre doing it again, you are claiming for a fact that these BRs have no compression whatsoever using your personal definition of what compression is and what vehicles are equal

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@ThiccoIai Webster English dictionary is not me, stop implying they are.
If there was compression there would be evidence.