The game play has become less than enjoyable to play!! Teams are a joke, CAS is overpowered and to easy to get into, AA cant kill the helis the are shooting from the far side of the moon, BUGS BUGS BUGS, smaller and smaller maps, no imagination for the 1 or 2 maps in the past year or so, built in russian BIAS, etc etc etc…
I mean, this is the same game where the M247 can actually lock its targets, and ADATS works in all-weather conditions.
War Thunder allows systems to function at 100% efficiency (despite reality saying otherwise) because random chances for stuff to fail is a nightmare, both in terms of actually balancing it as well as choosing what to implement. What should the Pantsir’s actual interception rate be? What munitions should it perform better or worse against? How often should a MiG-27 break its cockpit firing the gun? How often should missiles just go dead off the rail? How much of this should be up to random chance vs user error?
Hundreds of vehicles and weapons perform much better than they did in real life, because War Thunder isn’t real life. I don’t disagree the Pantsir is bad for balance, but this isn’t the way to balance it.
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There is no russian bias with the recent buffs and ariete and merkeva reload t-80s and t-90s are very mediocre now
I don’t think buffing some of the absolute worst top tiers makes USSR mediocre
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Oh no, the Ariete and Merkava get a 5 second reload, it’s not like they’re the least-armored tanks in the game.
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You know, when the Bradley has to rotate its launcher after every stop, it looks like a nightmare and is completely unnecessary in the game. But it’s there. Just like the completely useless pod on the Buccaneer, which you have to carry instead of an extra missile. Or the single warhead on the TOW-2B with an explosively formed penetrator that, on top of that, gets neutralized by Soviet ERA, which is completely unrealistic. And there are countless examples like this, but only for one side. That’s exactly what constitutes the Russian bias being discussed in this thread.
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Oh cool so when is russia getting the R-37M
you do realise this is a video game not a simulator the US doesn’t get M829A4 for a balance reason, besides M829A2 is already the second best toptier shell and even M829A1 beats 3BM60
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When China gets the KD-88, C-701 T/KD, C-704, HJ-12, AKD-21; PL-15, -16, -17, -21 (All of which pre-date and outperform the R-37M); PL-8B, PL-9, PL-10 (All of which outperform modern Russian SRAAMs); FK-2000 and ground-based TY-90s; DTC-10E which gives DM53 performance for the 99A’s gun; Spall liners and further needed model fixes for the 99A and VT-4A1; apologies to China for years of modelling errors and not fixing them.
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Average KV-1 in a downtier:
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yeah, when does European get meteor then?
Ariete and Merkeva made Russia mediocre lol good joke
I’ve literally been penned by DM23, dude, in an Abrams.
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you can kill a t90m with a dm23, but you have to aim well, same goes with the abrams but there is a large difference on how easy to do between a leclerc and an abrams… saying otherwise is just stupid
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btw, you can kill M1A1/A2 with DM13 through the turret ring consistently
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i dont know i remember i made veghead from THC disconnect for the call after his bomb landed on me and did nothing and he did a suicide dive.
you can also kill it wit ha russia nt34 from ww2.
these people are unstable lol
but remember… if it sells enough $$$$ gaijin will never balance it.
I’ve noticed that Russian tanks seem to “get shit done”; it’s something that honestly catches me by surprise when I’m using them. If it’s all because this game has a bias towards Russian vehicles, it could be chalked up to how this game is Russian in origin. Coupled with that, it does encourage me to have more of an appreciation for Soviet mechanized weapons (tanks and planes, at least), even if it might be historically inconsistent…not that I’d know for certain on that aspect.
I guess one personal issue might be that I sought to prioritize other countries’ tech-trees, and I haven’t prioritized Russia’s. But, considering that Russian vehicles (WWII Soviet ones, at least) are pretty good, I ought to sort my shit out and consider committing more towards Russia, and save, like, Germany for later.
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Russian bias in 2024? Honestly, when i want an easy experience, I just take Soviets/Russians, I am rarely frustrated, it is really easier than other nations I play, especially in tanks. I don’t know if it can be called bias, but I would just call it patriotism.
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Same but with Sweden.