It absolutely does not, i have no idea how you arrive at this absolute nonsense conclusion and i have even less of an idea how that would in any way shape or form prove the higher average skill level of ussr players.
People literally said both. Everyone is aware that minor nation players tend to be better precisely because of the connection between normal distribution and popularity.
So better armor and dont forget the 2 additional crew members the BMPT gets over the 72. And of course the tech tree BMPT has better players on average since the other is a premium everyone can buy. Both things can be true at the same time.
He doesn’t say it because he made it obvious enough.
Seriously, most of the points are bs. If you asked an AI to summarize all the BS points that US mains like to complain about, it would be almost identical to the script of that video.
If you can’t hear that he is not serious in the video I don’t know what to even say.
Because it is pure Russian bias…1st big update of the year and Russia was the only to get anything worth a penny and guess what a new pantsir with a 1700ms missile and 40 of them. Its ridiculous how people can even defend against Russian bias. Considering i play against Russia 99% of the time in top tier
People point to specific vehicles and performance stats but I honestly think it’s Gaijin’s behavior vs other vehicles. People forget back in 2014, Gaijin had it where the bounce angle required for near 100% bounce chances was the same angle as the UFP of the T-34-85. Making it where it could bounce shells it shouldn’t EVER be able to bounce relatively easily.
Gaijin’s artificial nerfing of NATO tanks via the turret drive which makes the T series tanks at times more survivable than the NATO tanks when NATO tanks were designed specifically for survivability. We only got that glimpse with when we saw the initial M1 Abrams and how it dominated and Gaijin literally tried to do everything possible to nerf it and to this day. You can hit an empty box for carrying .50 cal ammo and White Monsters and gaijin considers it part of the turret drive.
There’s also this thread in which a tech mod basically clams up showing that there is a piece of armor that’s not being represented on the Abrams after a long discussion. Upon which an actual photo was shown. Yet again, the Abrams just gets nerfed and Nerfed and nerfed again.
None of this has been added.
The KH-38MT we didn’t even believe it existed, and there was a huge argument over that. For Gaijin, their source was a picture of a plastic Mockup and a picture of the brochure which is where they got the stats. We don’t even know if the missile was fired or not.
The Mig-19 vs the F-100D was heavily biased towards the Mig-19. The only time the U.S. crept back was with the F-4C. But it wasn’t complete domination. But that quickly went to the wayside as the Mig-21Bis came out and was accelerating doubly as fast as it should IRL. And even today it’s still around 20% faster than it should.
Then the Mig-23 overperformed massively for years, until literally the end of last year being fixed.
People will say the “f-14 dominated” Which it was arguably the best jet for a short time. The Phoenix’s were there before people knew how to notch but the Mig-23 could still contend. and then quickly balanced out again with the F-16A and Mig-29.
Anytime I find russia is behind, they’re only lagging slightly. Anytime the U.S. seems to be behind. They’re getting clubbed to death.
It’s convenient that you leave out parts of history, like how the F-4E was pretty dominant for about 7 months before the MiG-21Bis release.
The F-16A vs MiG-29 was clearly not very balanced since they had to add R-27ER about a week after release, even then the F-16A was just better in most other areas, F-15C was pretty dominant too, F-15E release was also something else.
And to top it all off, US absolutely dominated top tier ground for a whole year from march 2017 until march 2018. I don’t think there has ever been such a long period of absolute dominance again on the ground.
I literally pointed out the M1 Abrams was dominating ground RB and Gaijin did everything to nerf it down to what we have now. You just read right over that.
So Russia gets a better missile to offset (Best SARH in the entire game) and the F-16A while being better, was not kicking in teeth every match. The Mig-29 comes out and still has areas it’s superior in to the F-16A but the kit on the F-16A was generally better and the rate speeds were large enough to make a difference. But they didn’t take a metric dump on the Mig-29 making it literally impossible to play
It was “better” but it wasn’t leaps and bounds over the SMT. The R-60s carried it, was more maneuverable than the 9Js and everyone practically skimmed the ground so the use of AIM-7Es weren’t that viable unless someone climbed up high. And the AIM-7E-2’s weren’t there for the full lifespan of the F-4E so they were worthless unless you were going head-on with a dude miles away at high alt.
When the The Mig-23 came out. With the F-4E you literally couldn’t do anything. When the Bis came out. You couldn’t fight back because prolonged fights weren’t feasible and they even rated better than the F-4E due to having double it’s IRL acceleration. The same was with the SMT except it didn’t have the inaccurate acceleration to let it pull complete BS moves.
The closest one you could say was dominant was the F-15E. But I want to add. And this is the funny part. It was overperforming in Engine thrust and Gaijin literally fixed it in like a week or two and it balanced out a whole lot better afterwards. Compare this to the Russian vehicles I listed above.
I fully disagree the F-15C was “Dominant” Maybe slightly better. But dominant is “Clubs the enemy completely.”
Again, plays out like how I said at the end of my initial post “Anytime the U.S. is ahead, Russia only slightly lags behind, anytime Russia is ahead. The U.S. gets clubbed to death.”
Except that the M1 was still dominant even after the so called “nerfs” (which were more bandaid solutions to stem the bleeding).
And the absolute funniest part. When Russia finally got the T-80B, their first tank to at least somewhat come close to the M1 Abrams, the US received an improved abrams (IPM1), the best AA in game at the time (M247) and the best heli at the time (AH-1Z) in the same update.
The US hasn’t been clubbed to death in a while now though.
sorry but you glossed over the F4E , F5s as well as the fact the F14A dominated for years Mig23 stood literally no chance, not in a dogfight, not in long range capabilities.
It’s only advantage was 4 x all aspect missiles which sucked anyways.
You also completely left out the Mig29 never got it’s historical R73s at release due to USA crying.
It Got it’s air frame nerfed whcih was only fixed a few months ago after years.
It also had to be given R27ER as it was no where near keeping up with the 16A, which got the 9G limiter removed extremely quickly.
F15A was also fantastic when it was added, not as top notch as the gripen but still absolutely hammered most opposing jets into the ground.
F15C though was a winner again back on top then followed by teh F15E which for a while was able to fly into orbit, drop off 8 AMRAAMS then bugger off back to base completely untouchable, if you extended up to catch it, you’d cop an amraam, if you stayed low, you could rarely ever fire a missile up at it and land a hit.
so what we have now? the M1 is still one of the best 10.7 MBTs in game, only supersceded by the Leopard 2A4
They literally did take a dump on the mig29? it’s air frame was butchered up until like 4 months ago even then it’s still missing some of it’s flight characteristics.
The F16A absolutely mogged it and still does.
Not gonna lie mate, when F4E was added I didn’t see many folks ground skimming F14A caused that meta
Disagree all you want it was the top scoring plane for a while.
sorry but AIM9Ls were far better than R60s. Now they’re all massively attracted to flares for some reason.
It’s competitive mate? it’s just not the top dog now.
The new F16 BTW and F15C GE are both competitive in the top tier meta.
Prior to the 2024? Mig-23 nerfs, MLD dogfought about as well as F-14A.
F-14A also had nuclear engines which made R-60s, R530E, etc rather potent in the rear aspect.
F-14 players were so use to people just zombing, that when they faced an opponent that exploited their aircraft’s weaknesses they just fell apart.
F-14A was strong tho. Best of the top aircraft, but still defeatable.
The F14A had a better FM, better sustained fight, better nose authority as well as better flight performance.
The MLD had one thing going for it back them which was the wing slats.
The funny thing was back then the F14 radar was actually a ballache to get to work properly as well as it constantly lost lock when moving the nose around.
The f14A was by far the doninant plane for a long time.
So it was the dominant air craft? Every plane is beatable.
I’ve beaten gripens in the mig29 doesn’t makw it better.
It could be vastly improved in basically all respects, but wont be don’t forget that the event variant need to be specifically conferred AIM-9L in order to keep up. Also It has and had significant issues with being beaten in a Dogfight since the Mig-21Bis (2 stage emergency settings) at the time could reliably initially dump energy it had into a turn and be impossible to recover from.
And so relied on the F-5’s to handle the dogfight and keep them at range.
They are performing to Russian Specs, complain to them about it. Considering they are trusted more than the actual FMs when reported.
R-23 & -24T were silent and could be cued by the IRST at a significant distance, and the F-14s are far hotter than they should be since Temps are set according to cockpit instruments regardless of where the probe is located (inlet vs outlet probes, is also why the F-5 is so cold).
It’s still far better than Rear-Aspect only missiles, and being constrained to how Sparrows were modeled prior to the -7M being introduced.
Do I need to bring up how they were modeled at the time?
Because it was poorly modeled, and would cause issues with the limitations of the game, since it’s not a simple G or AoA limitation, but both dynamically depending on a number of factors for each channel.
And then nerfed again and again and again and now we have the turret drive issue expanded to all NATO tanks.
It was a slower version that only uparmored the cheeks and so people still preferred playing the regular Abrams and treated the IPM1 as a reserve tank.
This was before the implementation of M833 and this was the beginning of Gaijin making changes to the russian carousel racks where it would begin to absorb shots.
It didn’t help that the matchmaker at the time favored Stalingrad a boat load so you’d have to go hulldown against T-80s and T-64BVs and you’re were playing breach breaking simulator.
The M247? By what margin? Was it an all destroying nightmare or was it just marginal improvement over something like the Shilka? Because it lines up with what I remember it as. A pretty effective gun based system but it didn’t break top-tier, especially as people were dying for a new SPAA as the M163 wasn’t cutting it anymore in the era guided missile slingers.
There was no “Best Heli.” besides thin margins in what players preferred in fact, it was almost up to player taste. Do you prefer higher mobility or do you prefer a tankier platform that carries more varied ordnance.
Both did fine as missile slingers.
Over the years gaijin just kept nerfing the Abrams (And subsequently every NATO tank in the process) to the point that Russian tanks are surpassing NATO vehicles in survivability.
F-15C GE is repeatedly quoted as one of the worst if not THE worst AESA equipped top-tier (This may belong to the PoBit but I’ll need to do flight tests). (intially) Didn’t carry the amount of armament needed, and can’t actually reach speeds that are kinematically required to perform well as well as a subpar missile compared to it’s competitors. The Airframe is also severely underperforming and Gaijin admits it’s an issue but won’t fix it. Again. Strange that anytime the U.S. needs fixing, Gaijin loves inaction. Another issue is that the AIM-120s are massive question marks in performance but instead of making guestimations on perceived performance as they happily done before (Especially as footage shows the fins of the AIM-120C rotating over 30 degrees of deflection) Gaijin drags their feet on the issue and requires hyper specific documentation or sources that explicitly state it. But as we’ve seen with the Abrams, even when shown direct incontrovertible evidence. Will turn their eyes away.
Meanwhile, they added a Russian mockup missile that we don’t know has ever been test fired and uses a random Brochure to justify it’s existence/stats.
Like I stated before. It’s not a “Vehicle stat” thing but purely how Gaijin treats some nations in this game.
