You’ll have to completely ignore Japan to state that, it has better helicopter with 4x more missiles, longer range and probably faster or equally faster since the Wiki don’t state exact numbers, and equally effective airplane (Su-30MKM and Su-30SM2). Is a fact that Japan took the best advantage with sub-tech trees in the recent months.
It has the exact same heli as the US, France, UK and China, with 16 not 32 JAGM-MRs which have the same artifical nerf as the Hellfires that proceeded it. The LMURs are stronger than the JAGM-MRs by quite a margin
and yes, it does now have KH-38MTs via Su-30, but that doesnt mean that the soviet one isnt still also OP
Everyone likes different things, I am older(68) and grew up seeing totally different vehicles
than a lot of WT players now did.
Not saying anything is “better” than the other, just different, and that’s ok.
My only wish is a lot more younger players could get to know some of the older
stuff for historical reasons. And maybe play them enough to see the fun that can
be had in the mid tiers . . . we wouldn’t have what we have today, if we had not
had those early planes, tanks and ships we see in the game.
But different people like different things, and that’s ok
It’s a HUGE game now and there is something to play for almost anyone
I would say . … part of the “beauty” of this game really
and that’s cool
p.s. I have 12 years playing the game today btw . . . it’s my Anniversary . . .
Depends what you mean by top tier, if you mean max BR, then no Russian CAS and helis are currently the best in game, if you mean higher BRs like 10.7+ then they are rather lacking due to very limited amounts of F&F weapons and targeting optics that require you to fly more or less straight at the target while guiding the weapons, which is fine for the air to ground balance, but lags quiet a bit compared to a lot of the western counterparts, especially USA.
I honestly thought the whole “planes where first therefore is fine that they are OP” was a pretty dumb argument anyway. The idea that players of an entire mode should be nothing but targets just because your preferred vehicle type was implemented first is rather entitled and self centered IMO, regardless of what was implemented first things need to be balanced so that as many players as possible can enjoy the game.