The best coastal vessel you can play all things taken in consideration is Japanese.
The SKR-7 is only ticking people off because it’s Soviet and easily available as a squadron vehicle, the Köln is far better yet nobody talks about it.
Neither La Combattante nor La Surprise are 4.3, it is expected that they would struggle against a 4.3 if the coastal BR made sense. And that’s the neat part, as a whole coastal BRs are whack, the SKRs are worth their BR, so are the Köln and a few other frigates, but nearly everything else isn’t.
i still remember when they increased a lot of mid range BR tanks for decompression, all nations going up, but for some reason russian ones received a buff of reload speed, like why? lol
Where are the incredibly obnoxious, spammy rockets on Koln? You know, the ones the SKRs have that can absolutely murder anything in CQC?
To be entirely fair, “struggle” is underselling it a bit. La Surprise doesn’t even get an FCS (god knows why), and La Combattante falls short compared to patrol boats much less postwar frigates.
It’s well and truly insane Gaijin thought the current naval BR system was a good idea, doubly so that they didn’t think to give French coastal any real standouts other than one good Aviso.
I mean, you can already bully the SKR at long range since it spawns with bluewater (as it should), and you also want to be able to roll up on it and be able to bully it a close range which is allegedly it’s domain ?
Cause sure the RBU-6000 is better than the M/50, but you’re trading main battery quality, protected ammoracks, and literally the best multi purpose secondary suite at 4.3 for those RBUs, it comes down to preferences in the end, but an overall competent package is better to a CQC one trick in my experience.
The SKR is a flashy boat that pops off when the conditions are right, whereas the Köln is the “boring” regular option that will get consistent good results.
Also the Köln looks better.
Gaijin most likely kneecapped La Combattante because it has missiles, nevermind that said missiles are the SS.11. As for La Surprise, it might get a bug report now that it’s no longer an event vehicle from 5 years ago that nobody went for…
Completely agree that the French coastal tree is bad, and it very much mirrors the introduction of the air tree where all the domestic options are overtiered, and all of the good options are foreign.
Also since I mentioned Köln, where Maillé-Brézé ?
there are nato issues, like the ones on the eurofighter for example that still haven’t been fixed despite being up for so long or having been “accepted”
Honestly I used to not believe these “Russian Bias” claims, thought this kind of claim just people’s excuse. But after I reached russian top tier and since played t80bvm awhile ago I change my mind. All I can say is I was having above 2kd on bvm even when it was still stocked and using 3bm42. There were so many times I think I should be dead if im in 99a, m1 or leopard2, but bvm magically survived sometimes even without damage. BTW I have similar crew level on these top tier mbts and playing same tactics.
It absolutely does exist in some form, it just isn’t in the “making their jets better than everybody elses’ form.” It absolutely does verifiably and undeniably exist in the form of “we will fix things faster if ussr” or “we will only add new features if they can go on ussr vehicles too” or other similar more subtle things
Spall liners, auto tracking by IFV guns, SPAA additions in “sky guardians” where ussr receives 3 in one patch while USA waits until literally 2025 to see their equivalence, etc. I can also throw in the current fiasco where they decided mega nerfing the abrams and leopard was mandatory while they piddle around probably waiting 6 months to nerf the russians in the same way. Watch and see.
I’m going to ask you this once, and one time only. Capiche?
I am very clearly not some anti-russian player. I advocate for russia constantly in game. You KNOW this because 100+ likes from YOU specifically on MY comments. You coming here and saying I’m somehow being biased is pathetic and goes against all civility between us previously established.
As far as the CONTENT of the conversation…
The russian autoloader change where they made it where it can be disabled? This is not equivalent to what they did to the Abrams and Leopard. They are separate mechanics. The Russian tanks are currently ADVANTAGED (read: they SHOULD have this nerf as WELL but DO NOT) in that they DIDN’T get nerfed but WILL in the future. Do not lower your own intelligence or insult mine by trying to pretend this somehow means the USA and Germany wins here.