The incredible state of the matchmaker

It’s hard to describe it without a mod closing instantly…

I play EU servers only, but no specific daytime.
It feels like there is no “normal” match anymore at all.

Unfair matches are all over the place, doesn’t matter which BR range.
Meanwhile queue time <1min, most of the time only seconds.

  • One team has to play without top tier planes (7.0-8.0 without 8.0): >20%
  • One team with 4 bombers, enemy with fighters only.
  • One team 8 or more strike aircraft, enemy with fighters only.
  • Especially at BRs no plane has workable radar: >50% cloudy/dark/bad weather

With the horrendous compression we still have and the heroic player base, I have no clue what’s ARB about anymore.

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Yeah I remember a short bit ago I played the T-18B 57 to help my friend spade some of his bombers (flew escort with it for the slowest bombers) and there were many matches even at such low a BR where we would spawn in and see that our tean had like 5 bombers. Then after a bit of flying and all no enemy bombers would appear. How does it make sense to give one team 5 bombers (mostly useless against fighters, cannot win the match on their own anymore since the removal of airfield bombing) and the other team none? Literally just giving the enemy team a 5 player advantage.

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From like, reserve to 11.0 a single player can heavily influence a match.
This is esp true at 7.0-9.0 where missiles are not common.

Cloudy, dark, and other weather does draw out lots of matches. However, any decently skilled player should still be able to play effectively.

Nothing you can do about this. Either be really good and carry, or die with the rest of the team.
Its mostly nation matchups. US and Swed has a ton of attacker players at 7-9.0
While lots of other nations at the BR tend to be mostly fighters, or more commonly players use some fighter.

This reflects in win rate at those BRs.


USA 8-9.0 is below 50%, while everyone else is above 50% (This is not entirely due to attackers. Its mostly new players flocking to USA, which tend to bomb/use attackers)
You can see RU 9.0 is low due to Su-7s

But if youre in a decent fighter, and decently good, none of this really matters.

I dont like to use my own personal stats, but given i play a ton of 8.3-9.3


Even with god knows what teams, you can certainly will maintain high win rates across the board at this BR

My guy your stats are insanely high. You can probably just exclude yourself from the equation since it seems a team with you has an exponentially higher chance of winning.

Most players barely break even with KD and yours is like above 10. Most regular matches with the hige bomber imbalance are just skewed unless the smaller team has someone like you.