This is especially true if you study where you get shot.
I once did a study playing T-80BVM, and all tech tree players except American players would correctly hit side armor and turret.
Abrams players for whatever reason would shoot UFP when the turret and side armor were easier shots.
Of course, 40 matches isn’t the biggest sample size, but it’s astonishing how many people deliberately aim for the thickest armor then complain their shots don’t pen.
“I shot the turret cheek of Abrams and it didn’t pen! It’s OP!” level argument.
Edit:
True and the ammo belt leading into the 30mm guns also having the model separated from the outside belt to the inside belt making ammo detonation hard for that too
I was studying close engagements that force myself and them to show side armor to go around corners.
Close ranges also make it easier to hit [and obviously pen] the T-80BVM turret without hitting ERA.
Leopard 2 players consistently shot side armor and turrets [and of course penning, with most penned shots being a one shot frag], with none hitting the UFP.
Abrams players consistently chose to shoot the UFP instead of side armor or turret.
This was in 2024 & 2025, so things might’ve changed.
To be honest I believe that boils down to player knowledge and how players react. US players tend to shoot the first large part of the tank they see, which is typically the UFP. A problem arises when in lower BRs that behavior is encouraged because several American tanks can go through the UFPs of certain vehicles. A lot of Abrams players are typically very aggressive (which is likely akin to a FPS playstyle, where you aim for center mass) and them not understanding what they can/can’t pen.
A BVM side ERAs ate my whole DART, I quit and went on Reforger lmao
Can’t waste time on an unbalanced game anymore. Friendly advice : fix the unbalanced situation at +10.3 GRB Gaijin, or the player basse = the $ received will plummet at some point
Not to mention he was at 2400sp in the first match.
In both of these games the nuke was only denied because he didn’t have time. Top tier games end incredibly quickly, often in 5 minutes. Getting a nuke is already difficult and dropping it requires time that you don’t always have. Not to mention the chances of you getting shot down are incredibly high due to SAMs and top tier aircraft.
In this entire video, there’s ONE section where he struggles to kill Russian MBTs.
One, the first incidence clearly being volumetric bs that is not exclusive to Russia. Every tank has this. It was simply a bad shot.
The second incidence was also a bad shot, third one was bad luck, happens against every tank.
In the first match he’s also clearly on the fence about what the new modules do for the Leclerc, on one hand you lose the ability to turn your turret etc, but the new modules also eat up spall.
His main complaints in this entire video were: short matches and CAS.
He never complained about Russian mbts and I never saw him struggle against a BMPT.
Bradleys cant fire on the move. Spikes can and they do ingame, the problem is that row 2b does no damage and spikes dont work, lock is broken, damage is crap, flight profile is worse.
Did you ever watch the whole video before posting ? lmaoo. He didn’t get a nuke when teamed up with NATO
In this entire video, there’s ONE section where he struggles to kill Russian MBTs.
One, the first incidence clearly being volumetric bs that is not exclusive to Russia.
It LITERALLY happened to me YESTERDAY. Russian side ERAs EAT NATO DARTs, it DOESN’T happen with NATO MBTs as they have no or poop ERAs.
He never complained about Russian mbts and I never saw him struggle against a BMPT.
I quoted him :
EDIT 3 : at 15m30s, Jon says “I’m pissed off. Playing against Russia… It’s just sad that Russia can dominate like that because they just get the most bs things ever, at this BR. This pisses me off”.
He literally complained about the russian bias at +12.7 GRB, what are you talking about ??
We just got the March winrates : Russia goes from 53% to 60% winrate at +10.0 GRB (trust me, it would have been WAY MORE even they didn’t fight against China during some games), and the 20 first most dominant vehicles in terms of winrate are russian
Also, here’s the winrates of MBTs of other nations in comparaison :
(KVT : 40%!!!)
Spoiler
I wasn’t wrong when I said Russia had around 70-90% winrate at +10.3 GRB. If you don’t make them fight against China and only take the games where NATO fight Russia and isn’t teamed up with it, it the 60% certainly becomes 70-75%!!
Stop spreading misinformations, there is indeed a bias at top tier !
He practically had it but when you check the scores, he was the only decent player of the team. Every other team had trash scores and left (he was the only left at the end of the game).
Russian ennemies had ez scores in comparaison, as always at top tier GRB
to be fair if you say due to multipath X missile was obsolete, then it also means Y missile (radar missiles ofc) was obsolete.
The R27ER is irrefutably the best SARH in game, but multipath meant it was largely useless unless someone over that limit.
and both were rendered useless by the 100 metermultipath.
no it doesn’t ?
The MLD has worse turn rate, worse avionics, worse sustained rate as well.
The MLD has instantanious turn and that’s it, if you take two equal pilots and put them to dogfight the F14A will rag the MLD almost every single time.
