Okay so I’ve been playing this game since like 2014.
And there’s one thing I’ve noticed the most.
Which is: Russia is the most broken and annoying country in this whole game to fight against at every top tier bracket it had. It started with the zsu-57-2, then the PT-76-57 then the premium t72 and 2S6 and Ka50, then the BMP2M change, then the 2S38, then the T-72M2 Moderna, then the Object 292 then the Pantsir S1, then the Buk-M3, and now the Pantsir sm-sv and BMPT’s.
And in the meanwhile air didn’t stop either, take the Su-25 (which is still better in game then the A-10, HOW), then the mig-23ml (that one wasn’t thaaat bad tho) then even more su25’s, and then some su27’s, Su-34 and the su30s. all of them can carry the best missile in the game, the KH38MT. And if that’s not bad enough, they can carry a lot of air to air and air to ground ordinance as well. They can literally take of from their airfield in ground RB, fire the KH-38ML’s at the enemy’s spawn while using GNSS, and those things will still hit. While on the other side there’s the beautiful AGM-65’s… A missile so useless it cant even 1 shot most of the times, it can only get launched within a short range, they are really slow and can get intercepted easily.
Then at last, the helicopters…
It started with the Ka-50, a helicopter that broke the heli pvp game mode and was the most annoying heli at the time of introduction. Not even now there’s a single heli better at that BR range than the Ka50. It had a stupid damage model and you could fire a dozen rounds through it and it would still kill you and half your team before crashing. Then at some point they decided to fix it, by giving it modules. Best idea around the Ka50 in a while, but obviously they had to give every other heli modules as well, so it’s still the top dog of its BR to this day.
And now there’s a new boss in town, the MI-28NM. The LMUR slinger, with (obviously) the best fire and forget missile at top tier (they do like to give Russia the best missiles don’t they) it one taps most of the time while the other fire and forget missiles forget where to even go. and gooood luck killing it, no missile can hit it except mouse guided ones, and i know that every other heli has that as well. but they can easily be gunned down by a jet, but good luck doing that against the MI-28 with its 30 MM gun that still hits you from 3km away while the apache gun struggles to hit a jet going head-on with it…
I can still give reasons why every ground vehicle that I’ve mentioned is broken as well, but that will make this way to long.
And of course every other country has had good vehicles, but that was like 1 or 2 maybe. And some countries still lack at every department (Italy…) But we can all agree that Russia has the best stuff at every top tier bracket that existed, and It’s getting worse and worse with each update they make.
So Gaijin, what I’m wondering is. When will you notice the existing problem and fix the issue. Russia has always been an annoying country to have as your enemy, and trying to solve it by giving every country a SU-30 isn’t going to cut it. Balance the existing vehicles like you do with every other country.
Make it make sense to play nations outside of Russia.
This was a long rant, and I’m sorry for the people that actually read it all the way through. But I’m fed up with Gaijin looking the other way on this topic, or making jokes about it in crafting events or on Instagram.
This is a game about military vehicles and having fun playing it, get the game back on track like in the early days, please… And i’d love it if people actually started fighting against Gaijin because of this nonsense, and if not by talking, then by showing. I’d love a good review bombing again, cause this is getting insaner and insaner by the day.
And yes i know that Russia has a meh win rate, but that’s cause people play badly, they gain the upper hand. then they die and spawn a heli or a jet, and then at some point there’s no ground forces anymore so the enemy wins by points. That’s not because Russian vehicles are bad, but because the players using them have to much broken stuff to play with in the air.
Thank you all for reading my beautiful novel about a game i love dearly and about a game which needs balancing fixes.