Russian Bias in 2026?

I’ll do you a solid.

Kh-38mt is a bitch so are spice so are IR missiles. So are the new SLAMMRMS for USA. Getting killed by an MI-28NM LMUR also sucks play russia top tier and then come tell me how many times you will die to CAS. Then we can discuss what’s broken and what isn’t.

Flight paths: I don’t know I can spam my Apache and get kills easily so I don’t see why that matters. If it’s broken then I don’t know personally and I’m not going to pretend like I do.

Lastly, here’s my question to you.
If Russian bias is so strong why are you doing poorly in your BMPT 72?

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The issue is BMPT isn’t meta.
T-90M is more meta than it, and even then T-90M isn’t a top 5 tank.

The biggest thing BMPT does is cause people to panic cause of YouTube Russian propaganda about it, and people forgetting it’s a T-series hull still.

Of course on large maps people also aren’t use to being forced to disengage from a target until an advantageous position shows itself.

BMPT has the armor, and BMP3 armament. It can do damage, and knowing its weaknesses makes it predictable to deal with.

Japan having identical CAS.

Ah yes, the famous thing that matters most

Ugly tanks in the line up, now that’s a real problem

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It matters to me 💀

Great, but not exactly a balancing issue

Beauty is also subjective, the blatant imbalance at top tier not so much

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I personally believe Japanese CAS (Yes I know that both Russia and Japan have KH-38MTs) is less oppressive as Russian CAS mainly because there are more players with aircraft that carry the KH-38MT and more players playing Russia in general compared to Japan.

you only have less then 200 kills in the ah64E
jagm’s even when you have 16 of them the flight path they take it less effective and you with 16 missiles will get less kills then with 8 lmurs… <— which in conclusion is better then hf or jagms…

this… it flies fast and is hard to intercpet vs spice which is a glide bomb… less rnage slow flightpath and can get countered by the free pantsir… (not mentioning the new pantsir…)<— kh38mt compared to spice and other bombs in nato tree is far better.

because i don’t need to farm kills to get 150k SL per game with using t-80e1 bmpt 2s38 ka-52 and su-30 premium on top tier? I press 2 shoot anything that moves i either get an assist or kill whichi bring me loads of SP and money because a bmpt72 can throw out damage and not get killed so much ?

now ekhem your stats… your best lineup with kills is USA but it has 44% win ratio while your russian lineup has circa 65% win ratio… well hot damn aint that cute that the russians have much better win ratio then americans where you have more kills LOL

Winrate is indicative of lineup quality and player skill more than how good the tanks actually are, and it shouldn’t be used as any definitive proof.

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Honestly I agree, I would rather look at the win rate of the tech tree each month rather than focus on a single player’s stats.

now that BMPT is up, I might just give a new go to my amx-13 / vextra duo

every 10.7 in town will be sent up the br ladder to feed BMPT

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The problem here is that you guys just want to vent about losing and dying. Russian bias doesn’t exist and yes, they currently have the most broken BMPT and SM-SV spaa. As far as CAS it all sucks to go up against.

@Fat_Fury the reason you don’t do good in your tanks is because you haven’t mastered your tanks.

Win rate is one thing but what also matters most than all is team placement. Or your overall average score per match. I could of gone 3 captures and 10 kills with 3 deaths and still lose, it is what it is can’t win them all. I could look at monthly or overall stats too.

I would rather have someone with a low K/D and high win rate/ mission score than someone with a high KD and terrible mission score and winrate. That tells me they play and play their best vs cowering or camping being useless.

Overall, all I can really say for you is once you play all the way through you’ll see what’s broken and what isn’t. Vs blaming everything on Russian Bias.

EDIT: I’m not going to say that Gajin doesn’t suck, they really do suck at balancing the game in a lot of aspects. i don’t believe it’s aimed only towards Russia. Even if they do handhold them by faking realism to give them a top tier 12.7 lineup with Armor but even so they can still be rocked

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I’ve watched a few of his replays mate, losing to a BMD4M in an M1KVT for example.
He ODLs to statpad then cries when teams don’t carry him to victory.

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The Italian M60A1 – I’d missed it. What changes have they made to it?

What I do know for sure is that some Italian Premium vehicles have been nerfed; just look at the Celere Sahariano – its gun reload time used to be 2.9 seconds, but they’ve changed it to 4 seconds. For no apparent reason.

Either the game or you is lying, i wonder which it is…

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They initially added the Italian M60A1 with the stabilizer, like the US M60A1(AOS). However they later found out that the Italian M60A1s didn’t have said stabilizer. So they removed the stabilizer and bumped it down in BR a little bit, and as a “compensation” everyone who owned the Italian M60A1 got a whopping 30% discount on the new premium, which was the OF-40 MTCA.

Save to say that the community was not happy, at all.

How do those 2 statements work together?
There is no preferential treatment for russia but if necessary Gaijin will ignore realism to keep them competetive? That does sound a good bit preferential to me.

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There are other tanks that shouldn’t be at top tier, that get a boost or some enhancement to get them there.

EDIT: There are also other tanks at other BRs that have selective realism and can dominate.

gaijin should be burried because of bmpt and its implementation in the game

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1.Which other tanks do get selective realism to compete?
2. it’s not just the tanks.

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There’s no such thing as “selective realism”.
However, mobility is one of the biggest things that fall under your “selective realism”.
Centurion is among the most over-performing tanks in War Thunder in mobility. So much that not even T-80U over-performs as much as Centurion does [Swedish trials].
That is not selective realism, that is programming mobility in a way that ends up having over-performing tanks.

Gaijin could’ve discovered something with belted ammo, or it could be incorrect.
However, what we do know is of the vehicles added since they seem to have known:
Ajax. ? Internal? External?
CRV Block 2. All external.
Freccia OWS 30. All external.
BMPT. Pass-through.
BMPT-72. Pass-through.
Eltan P. ? Internal? External?
BTR-3E1. All internal?
M1296. All external.
sWaTrgInf. All external.

BMPTs are the only ones added that have pass-through.
Unlike spall-liners, this is an instance where Gaijin has modeled belted ammo tensions [not in a box] as not leading to catastrophic explosions when a Soviet vehicle is added.

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