Please for the love of God, fix Top tier GRB

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Top Tier Ground RB is honestly a joke at this point

I know people have complained about this for years, but it needs to be said again, top tier just isn’t fun anymore. Which makes playing feel like a waste of time

When I started playing back in 2013, the game at least tried to feel semi-realistic. It wasn’t perfect, but matchups like Allies vs Axis or NATO vs USSR made sense. There was a logic to it, and you felt immersed.

Now? It’s Germany and USSR dominating nearly every match, or Germany vs everyone else and Germany almost never loses. Spare me the stat sheets, I see it in practice. When they are on the same team, it just makes things worse for the other side, especially with heli spam kicking in within the first 60 seconds.

I didn’t stick with this game for over a decade just to watch it become some weird arcade mess. Top tier desperately needs a NATO vs USSR/China matchmaker, and most of the current maps just need to go.

If we’re being honest: these maps weren’t made for modern tanks. Alaska, American Desert etc, they’re tiny, cramped, and feel like they were designed for CoD. These tanks are meant to engage at ranges up to like 4km away. Most of the time you’re either stuck in a bowl or a maze. It’s twitchy, chaotic, and punishes anyone trying to play smart or use their vehicle in a slower more realistic manner.

It’s like Gaijin opted for fast-paced “lizard brain” gameplay based purely on reaction speed, with no room for tactics.

Gaijin, you’ve basically become what you said you weren’t. Back in the day, War Thunder prided itself on not being World of Tanks. But now, The only real difference is that you added modern vehicles. You took out Historical Battles, watered everything down into “Realistic Battles,” and now RB feels like Arcade with slightly more effort.

Before anyone says “just play Sim” be real. Sim has like 14 people in the queue. It’s not even an option. Telling people to “go play Sim” is just dodging the actual issue.

If you’re someone who enjoys the current small-map, hyper-fast gameplay, fine, you do you. But there are a lot of us who miss what this game used to be. Give us a queue or mode that’s actually realistic for top tier:

NATO vs USSR, big maps, and enough space to use our vehicles the way they were meant to be used. I’m not saying I want a full on simulator, just something that meets in the middle.

That’s all I want.

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For me its drones + scouting, aggressive plays are extremely punished by these. You can go on the greatest flank ever, the second you get scouted its over. And ya the small maps make flanks even harder. To be honest even without drones scouting is just overpowered as hell. The fact it follows you for like 30 seconds is just dumb, can’t even reposition without everyone knowing, you have no indication of being scouted either, there is just no counterplay aside from sitting in a safe spot with hard cover all game so even if the entire enemy team knows you are there you can do something.

Drones just make it worse because now even pathing out of sight of the enemy team you can still be scouted.

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I would be more lenient with scouting if the maps were much larger.

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Ya idk, even “big” maps like red desert are comically small with how its layed out. Would love to see some maps that are actually big, maybe have dynamic spawn points that move with the flow of the match.

One of the problem big maps are going to have is another big problem with the game which is players leaving early, big maps would start being a problem when 5 minutes into them it goes from like 20v20 to 8v12 or whatever. Needs to be a mode where players are expected to stay the entire match, or like EC with drop in/out.

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My favorite map is fields of Poland, the large one. There’s enough cover in hills and the town. Basically the perfect map.

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ya big poland and big eastern europe are probably the best maps in the game atm. Both also have towns to fight in for close quarters stuff too and not just open areas.

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They have to cater to those with the attention span of a toddler. I get that big maps suck especially at lower BR… Especially if you are playing the brits (got one of the large ones while I was in the Black Prince earlier, was great /s) but yeah, larger maps are a must for top tier. We need Air EC size maps overall with appropriate airfield locations (prevent certain aircraft cough we all know who) from being able to launch a bunch of stuff just over the airfield as well as a much larger field for the tanks themselves to allow flexibility. Over the years I have been watching as maps / playable areas change pushing WT closer to WoT map styles with each new one.

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which is sad, hopefully the game dies off soon as forecast. maybe theyll change it then ]

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You got a point tho i can’t understand the Mindset"I am going to play a Island nation" And expect good tanks

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That’s another issue with the game. It seems like everyone gets Each-others vehicles. I’m not going to play Russia to use a Sherman, I’m going to want to use a T-34. Same goes for the UK getting premium Mig-21. It’s a joke. The only real use of that that I find okay is Germany getting both Leo2s and T series tanks from USSR since it was historically split, I just wish they could split it In the match maker as well.

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It’s fine at the moment bro

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