though i beleive this is mostly a skill issue post considering the leopard and abrams are the 2 best top tier tanks BUT there is a lot of truth to it with minor nations and “russian bias/favourtism” things i think they should do to balance things out as top tier lately is in imo one of its worst states ever
im gonna get the obvious out the way here and talk about russia
they have the best of every type of vehicle at top tier except mbt and maybe light tanks though thats not that important and the sprut m and 2s38 are amazing anyway but for example
the pantsir sm-sv is now hands down the best spaa in the game putting russia back on top after the pantsir s1 dominated for about 2-3 years i cant remember exaclty and theres no nato counter to it (it should be removed imo or heavily nerfed)
the thing thats caused the most complaining and the most forum threads and the most annoying thing in the game is the infamous BMPT still dominating the 10.3-12.3 br brackets and being a pain even in top tier mostly because it has better armour than a T90M the ERA and fuel tanks and spall liners and modules just make it impossible to 1 shot sometimes even disable and the fact its unkillable hull down and at the same br as the pathetic namer 30 much more difficult to deal with hull down because instead of 1 gun and 1 ammo box thing it has 2 guns and 4 missiles which u cant detonate to destroy the vehicle (i also think the bmpt needs be gone reworked and put back as its ruined and entire br bracket alone)
the mi28nm wouldnt be the best helicopter if the SM-SV didnt exist but russia is the only nation that can intercept 16 jagm and still have missiles left to spare basically clearing the airspace from any nato aircraft and the fact 8 LMUR are more deadly than 16 jagms because russian tanks hate being killed by them/they do no damage
the su30sm2 is the best CAS jet at top tier still because it has a fake missile which gaijin wont remove because they “believe” its real (it isnt) and they tried to justify this by giving KH38MT to japan and giving the us the slam-er (a slower maverick that does a bit more damage mounted on a terrible airframe) and yeah you could argue the spice bombs on the F15I or the gripen E or eurofighters but 1 pantsir SM-SV can deal with those
now to rant about minor nations (get comfy)
as a brit main im gonna start of with the challengers overall performance and the tank overall being very neglected and maybe some other british vehicles but starting off the challenger 2s are currently tied being the worst top tier tank with the ariete which are 2 vehicles that perform much better irl than ingame (idk about the ariete but the challenger 100%) there are various bug reports accepted by the devs 2 years ago to buff this thing and make it decent compared to other top tier tanks and where have they gone you might ask? well nowhere, spall liners, armour incorrections, ERA performance, L27a1 penetration values, the mobility of the tank (mostly to do with gaijin not implementing regenerative steering), the turret traverse speed, the ammo rack ammount the list goes on and on but britain being considered a “minor nation” and the challengers being considered “minor nation tanks” they will let them sit in this terrible state as sales on stuff like the challenger 2OES are nowhere near as high as sometihng like the BMPT-72 or the T80U-E1 or the M1A1 Clickbait or the Leopard 2A4M etc and this is the same with the arietes similar to the leclercs (though theres no premium leclerc because they decided a copy paste 2a4 is better) not to mention the leclercs (and type 10s) just got turret baskets when they already werent incredible tanks in the first place but turret baskets have now been put on a lot of nato tanks being
The abrams (every variant
The leopard 2a4/5/6/7 and even the 2k and PT16
The type 10/tkx/type 90
The leclerc/MSC
and russian tanks still have the autoloader sure which doesnt take out the turret traverse or the ability to shoot the gun when in real life im pretty sure having the autoloader shot out means the gun traverse shouldnt be available
back to the main point gaijin refuses to let minor nations be actually worth while other than something like china and im mentioning china because of what went on a couple months back with the controversy behind a thai VT4
gaijin cancelled adding a Thai VT4 to the japanese tech tree because crybaby china mains wouldve got the game banned in china if they did. so to stop them from crying gaijin proceeds to add an AH64e to china when they already had a top tier helicopter AND to annoy people even more they added the first ever out of american tech tree abrams to china to apologize for wanting to add there tank to a different tech tree in a game where politics shouldnt be involved. i dont like talking about stuff like it but 1 playerbase having them in a chokehold on what they can and cant add over geopolitical stuff is really bad but hey its whatever
if you dont want to read the way to long rant that i just typed my thoughts in a short way are
Remove the Pantsir sm/sv and replace it with an spaa thats better comparable to other nations
Remove the BMPT rework the vehicle and bring it back in a state where it wont ruin 2 br brackets
spend time actually fixing minor nation vehicles instead of pandering to the nations that make the most money (and yes this would benefit gaijin in the long run because for example if the challenger 2 OES didnt suck more people would buy it bringing them more money and same for the arietes)
and they should try sort something out to where 1 playerbase doesnt have them in a chokehold.
i dont usually type big boring long messages like this but i thought id view my opinion so enjoy