Russian Bias in 2025?

I’ve done that maneuver in that air show a number of times.
It’s hard to get on video cause I can only reliably do it in cockpit view cause 3rd person camera movement messes with me too much.

That video has nothing about disproving its current meta dogfight performance.

Replay?

you mean it falling out of the sky due to a lack of lift with it barely being able to point its nose around

then there are also occations where the post stall manouverable plane, the Su-30SM, just completly locks up in a post stall

then you should know that it is not achiveable like it should be

during a cobra the pilot only uses pitch and neither roll or yaw

the manouver is shown at airshows to demonstrate the the flankers dont loose lift asymetrically in a symmetric manouver, yet you start to wing stall asymetrically during a cobra in war thunder

My eyes rolled back in my skull so much that I could see my brain cells dying after reading this.

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Look, I believe there is a slight Russian bias but nothing too crazy that the game is unplayable. The is-2 should probably be moved up to 6.7 on account of its tremendous firepower and armour. Also the pt-76-57 is a lil unfair with a stabiliser and laser rangefinder. However, all nations are superior at some point in the tech tree, for example Germany starts off really well but starts to struggle around 6.7 as US tanks become powerful.

CR2 lower plate absorbing DM-53…i swear people don’t play the same game

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There is one Russian that works in archives and has access to documents regarding russian tanks, he said that above 6.7 (?) tanks are “buffed to appease patriotic fanboys”. This doesn’t mean that those tanks are necessary OP, just that they are better than they should.
There is also problem with a lot of russian shells because they perform better than IRL (57, 85, 122 and 152 for example), and some parts of certain tanks are smeared with butter (turret of T-44 for example really likes to bounce shots).

This doesn’t mean that other nations doesn’t have tanks that are OP, but for some reason they are concentraced in certain nation.

Few years ago there were datamines of hp of certain parts (engines IIRC), russian ones having more than the rest, GJ after this moved a lot of statistics from client side to servers.

After playing quite bit of all nations I can easily say russian tank overall are easier to play.

There are also other things I could say but I would be named few nasty worlds from players that ignore facts (I probably will be anyway) and this post would be hidden.

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this thing exist in the chinese tech tree

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i dont think that the player statistics agree with you there

last months win rate stratistics
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especially over mid tiers the win rate for russia is conistently worse or on par to the ones of the US and Germany

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A lot of new players play Ger and Rus.
You can see how bad they are playing those BR’s.

I love when type 10 and leclerc autoloaders absorb shells despite being at the back of the turret

Not really, 5.7 - 6.7 are quite strong.

thats not how statistics work

why do you think it is a percentage as a value?

it is that way so that they are compareable

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I may be wrong on this, I just stated how it is for me and people I know.
I do not understand 4.3 They have one of best tanks there, for me at least.

just like germany at 6.7
the tiger 2 is by far not the worst tank there

i was replying to your statment of russian tanks being easier to play than the ones of other nations
yet that isnt reflected at all by the statistics.

You would expect russia to have a higher winrate than germany and the US especially at 11.7 if the T-80 premium were easier to play than the Leo 2A4M and the click bait.

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Yes Tiger II is quite good.

I understand but for me that is weird since its not what I personally see. I also don’t play above 7.0 to much so there I don’t know.

NATO tanks over all are better but russian ones are easier IMO, I also do not trust WR at high BR’s because of spam of new players that bought their way there.

I do not think that WR statistics are good to compare tanks because of factors like:
What lineup players have or do they have anything more than one tank.
How do they play, do they try to win or just kill most tanks they can.
How good are they, good player in shitty tank will do more than shitty player in good tank.
Do they play alone or in squad.
Their tank is stock or spaded.
Do they know how to kill tanks they fight against.
Do thy know what ammo use at certain situations.
Do they know where to goo at map thy play.
Upptier or downtier.
What teams they have.

All of this is just my opinion.

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yeah that is a case of a low skill floor vs a high skill ceiling

thats why i specifid 11.7 where both russia, germany and the US have a pretty popular premium tank, to make it atleast somewaht compareable

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I added this, maybe you agree or not.
I forgor to add what crew they have. Or if they have eyes, there is a lot of players that are just lost when they play.

Thats just not true.
Russian tanks are harder to play due to bad gun handling/depression and medicore at best reloads.
And then you have the absolute atrocious mobility on MBT’s like T72 and T90.

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The “RU tanks are easier to play” parroting is years old by this point.
No one realizes they have by far the most flaws that directly impacts bad players.

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