US and RU together matches are VERY rare, much rarer than China being teamed up with Russia. Being two of the most played nations, the queue simply doesn’t allow them to be together. So that’s already incorrect from you.
And my point is that it’s not surprising for the M1A2T to have slightly better stats than the SEP when this is how heli balance looks at top tier right now:
One Abrams(US one) is getting farmed by RU CAS nonstop. Another Abrams(China) suffers from that less. Saying that’s wrong would be plain dishonest.
Source: Look at the queue numbers and use your brain. Look at your matches and be honest.
Matchmakers has always been, since we lost historical/semi historical matchmaking, the two/three most played nations on opposing side being reinforced by minor nations. US with RU together nearly never happen right now because that’s not how the matchmaking system works for ground.
During Leopard dominance, it was usually RU + US together against GER. Now it’s GER + US against RU with minor nations being spread out to one of the side due to how many people are playing RU.
Hell, the easiest way for you to confirm that is to group up with a friend of yours as US + RU to force matchmaker. Watch how your queue time shoots up. I tried that yesterday with a friend to not have to face LMUR and gave up after 5min queue without us getting a match.(We were getting sub 10sec queue as US + Sweden)
My man, Germany is as played as the US at 12.7.
Considering how US has 5% higher WR than Germany, it’s fair to assume former is paired with USSR a lot of the times.
All of your evidence so far consist of yapping and anecdotes. You’ll have to try harder next time.
Okay little fella. Going from 10 seconds queue to 5 minutes when grouping RU + US is totally an anecdote and not demonstrative of the current matchmaking tendency.
Buddy boy in here trying to push his narrative by using nothing but anecdotes and data that came up in his dreams.
Next time just say you have no intentions to discuss this properly so people don’t waste time on your “arguments”
I literally posted data, which you ignored as you commonly do when numbers don’t go your way. Facts don’t care about your feelings. What you’re essentially doing is taking M1A2T data in a vacuum and entirely ignoring every factor around it that influences that because the first numbers confirm what you want to see. This is usually dishonest or uneducated behavior, no offense.
Facts are that:
The Mi-28NM right now has as many ground kills alone as the M1A2SEP v2.
It has on top of that 60% win rate vs 49% win rate for the US AH-64E.
That queue time goes wack the moment you try to force matchmaker to RU + US.(wink wink)
Simple reality here is that whoever is more often on the receiving end of the LMUR is more likely to lose and have worst K/D, period.
This has all to do with Germany having some of the worst tools available to deal with DIRCM. Iris is useless against the Mi-28NM and Flakrad is the worst SACLOS AA at that BR.
As long as DIRCM isn’t fixed, you can give Germany a KF-51, 2A8, and EMBT, you’ll still end up with 2 dudes in Mi-28NM going 10-1 without breaking a sweat and finishing the game that way.
ADATS + NASAM is better than Flakrad + IRIS to kill DIRCM helis. Are they good at it? No. Not that I ever said that anyway, despite your strawman attempt. But they’re better than what Germany has, that’s not even a question.
Statshark shows the Mi-28NM with a 60% win rate. That aligns completely with what I’ve been saying. I’m honestly surprised this is even controversial for you.
At its core, the argument is very simple:
‘Whoever is more often on the receiving end of the LMUR is more likely to lose and have worst K/D.’
That’s not an opinion, it’s a straightforward fact about how the Mi-28NM impacts matches and stats.
If you can’t accept that basic premise, then there’s really not much left to discuss. There’s no point debating someone who rejects reality because it conflicts with their preferred narrative.
I think Helicopters should have never been introduced since as it stands, they can only be either completely useless if you remove any form of IRCM / the bs infinite notch, or they can be powercreep. I don’t know how they can be balanced, even as of now both sides can be frustrating, as a ground vehicle you can just get nuked by a rogue LMUR or AGM-179 but at the same time you don’t have a lot of room to play within the range of any SACLOS/LOSBR SAM as a helicopter, beyond which your missile locks start acting stupid because of how bad IR/Optical guidance is implemented.
Helicopters should probably have their own gamemode against AI tanks but apparently, in over a decade of development that’s too much for Gaijin to handle.
Locking 13.0 to only play with 13.0. That way, people who don’t want that gameplay can get all the modern tanks they want but stay at 12.7 with more balanced air assets.
Fixing DIRCM so that they can be overwhelmed. Also removing the frontal DIRCM that doesn’t exist on the Mi-28NM would be welcome.
Adding radar rotor return
Doing these 3 things would do a lot to make balance better. Other things could be experimented on like ammo box coming back after a cooldown for AA. Or a Supply depot near the spawn point. Etc.
This would fix the disparity between Russia and other nations that have to rely on their SACLOS SAMs to take down helicopters, but the role of helicopters becomes then super questionable. That’s why Helicopter battles should be reworked.
I think they know it’s a problem but obviously helicopters require some type of GE investment if you aren’t a psycopath like me who spades helos on Assault Ground. So it is just a question of profit for them, like most things.
It’s a bit of a double edged sword. Yes if I run the F-16CM I will have 12.7 matchmaker and thus have chances of getting downtiers, but the benefit of running 13.0 is that you don’t get queued with 11.7, which is where the main cluster of BMPT players are. So you will face less BMPTs.
I have been considering to change the HSTV-L for the M10 Booker.
It’s big, doesn’t have any kind of reliable armor, and it’s not even that fast. It also suffer from Abrams turret basket syndrome big time. M1128 > Booker.
