Russian Bias in 2026?

[SadRIPer]

Man, read this whole thread from the beginning + the other related threads talking about the bias + youtube comments + content creators opinions on that mater + other social medias comments : the large majority of the people think there is a bias, with valid arguments, and they’re not all noobs with 5 hours on the game overhaul.

Beside having my own opinion on the mater, I’ve been asking about if there is a bias or not to several content creators, random people on the internet and ingame through game chat, and the answer is always the same : it’s subtle, it’s only little details, it’s relative, but yes

Please man, don’t make me find back those long lists I wrote here explaining point by point why the bias exists. I literally explained everything

[H_ngma]

@IHаteCAS

They were wrong.

No they were correct. Imagine how terrible your 10.3 investment would have been without Gaijins unrealistic pampering towards top tier russia

[Awa_Subаru]

they never did? You’re the one that started it first btw by saying this

[Awa_Subаru]

I love content creators thats all about using thumbnails as bait for views and money as if that wasn’t the main idea to begins with in any every other games

[Awa_Subаru]

ironic that you’re calling majority of us kids knowing that we’re well leveled educated and here to debates with our sources and calling someone “lil bro”

[IHаteCAS]

I cant be asked to argue about the rabbit hole that is historical balancing, but this is a video game, balance is a must.

[SadRIPer]

Literally talked about 48 other things beside the armor when explaining the bias, in my long long lists above.

[Awa_Subаru]

Did you forgot how to write an essay with thesis? Including our sources and main ideas which all 10+ of us people did explaining and our sources including playtimes, and stats and reasons why some vehicles are like this and that

[Awa_Subаru]

The game been out for a decade now and you acting like its a new thing everyday about russian out perform something in another sections just cause of Kh38mt in general

[H_ngma]

@IHаteCAS

I cant be asked to argue about the rabbit hole that is historical balancing, but this is a video game, balance is a must.

Yeah and the game has a balancing system, its called Battle Rating. A Tiger UHT is 12.7, because its worse than an AH64E, Gaijin doesnt make up an LDIRCM and additional missiles for it so it can be 13.0. I dont see why russian top tier should be treated differently.

[Awa_Subаru]

But then again it’s Gaijin end of the day all they cares about is profits and margins not “we” people complaining about the games or not cause we still play War Thunder at the end of the day.

[IHаteCAS]

You hail the BR system as if it can solve the clusterfck that is historical balacing. (It can’t)

[H_ngma]

Its good enough for 99% of the game so why should it be different just for one tech tree at one tier?

[Jεcka]

Realism being bent i.e Gaijin consistently removing T-series primary weakpoints or strenghtening them every single patch? )))

They effectively doubled/trippled the effective armor with their addition of trunnions to T-series, while removing the cradle, and making the damageable area smaller… but on NATO MBTs the trunnions/cradle actually make the vehicles worse because Gaijin is just oh so conveniently giving only Russia’s MBTs CHA modifiers for the trunnions (i.e 0.98x RHAe KE modifier), while everybody else gets Structural Steel with 0.45x RHAe KE modifier )))

Some nations even get nerfs dating back to 2019 (cough Germany’s Leopard 2s cough) just so they’re easier to kill )))

[IHаteCAS]

You clearly have not dug into how 1 sided the cold war and ww2 could be.

[MR_BOOMBASTICc]

and yet your dodging my posts

@MR_BOOMBASTICc

I can already tell that you dont even read my evidence. You didnt even read the poll

[Awa_Subаru]

This game ain’t perfect yet here we are, still playing the game and pre ordering the same packs cause they now have an anime collab

[H_ngma]

??? Why would it be different to now? Im not advocating to substitute the BR system for historical matchmaking
Not relying on selective realism for balance is not the same as putting in historical matchmaking

[Awa_Subаru]

cause it doesn’t display for me? so therefore i assumed its a lied stats

[Fat_Fury]

Aside from BMPT’s being prime example of a already overperforming vehicle receiving artificial survivability buffs (6mm of rha that doesnt spall, fake external belts etc.) you also have many hidden platings on russian mbts that absorb spall, such as the 2mm of structural steel on T-64 and T-80 autoloaders; (sufficient to absorb spall, same thickness as horizontal-drive modules, but armourThrough value too low to create spall)

The autoloader module itself also does not create spall either, yet can absorb it aswell.

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Hidden 45mm mCHA (0.98x RHA) gun cradle (on chinese mbts it’s part of the trunnions);

Present on all T-64, T-72, T-80 and T-90 variants

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Trunnions being a demented artificial survivability buff and a major cause of shot inconsistency: (remember that the inner barrel diameter is 125mm… Is anyone going to act as if not a singular part of the russian mbts’ trunnions is thinner than 150mm?!)

^ every part of this is modelled to be AT LEAST 150mm of mCHA (0.98x RHA) and up to 300mm effective.

Then again Trunnions should be removed from every vehicle to begin with, just that their dimensions and effective armour are the most absurd on T-Series mbts

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Or other changes that aren’t announced nor have any sources provided for them (thank god datamines exist so these changes arent entirely hidden):

Or here’s them randomly deciding to make it significantly harder to overpressure T-90M:

(if you understand how overpressure/pressure damage works in this game, then you should also understand just how significant and stupid these two changes are).

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And ofc there are also Contact-5 and Relict casually auto-destabilizing the best APFSDS rounds in the game at any angle and distance, reducing their residual penetration to such a degree that their damage (fragmentation count, amount & penetration) can become nearly non-existent - aswell as heavily affecting their trajectory.

The destabilization effect of the Relict/Contact-5 tiles on the skirts is also 5x higher than that of Duplet, despite Duplet having either the same (relict) or significantly more (contact-5) listed KE equivalence.

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There are several other examples to bring up but I believe this to be sufficient to illustrate what I am trying to convey.

This is a quote from one of the people here on the forum he did a GREAT job explaining some details of russians being buffed.