I tried playing top tier again after grinding another nation for quite a while and it’s completely unplayable, even compared to lower tiers. The matches are basically over within a few minutes with one team getting completely obliterated and the other one stomping them into the ground. The game basically evolves into spawn camping within not even 5 minutes. The teams seem even more clueless than back in 1.0 somehow. The CAS spam is constant, especially by fnf helicopters and the apfsds damage is inconsistent as anything, even more inconsistent than the apfsds back in 8.7. I remember top tier being not that fun even back when I played it more actively but it somehow got worse. This completely destroys the incentive to even grind up to that point to begin with. I was already turned off from top tier for a quite a time now and decided with the Abrams “rework” to try again and it already showed me why I lost interest in it.
Because everyone see top tier as a prize, if you want to have fun in that sense just play your favourite battle rating range, pick your favourite line-up and done, forget about that you can get the next vehicle in the line. Saying that is easy but simply ignoring and playing whatever you have is not. War Thunder evolve around repeating the same match every time again; spawncamping happen when there’s opportunity to, it’s not the entire game.
Another problem is that its not only apfsds, i think it’s the tanks models, like for exmple, i shoot a t-90 (premium an non premium) and guess what, in game it showed it penned, STRAIGHT THROUGH the breech, and killed the gunner, yet somehow the whole tank was fine, and I just got obliterated in two shots.
Then there’s the HEATFS against the leopards, its like the round hit something before the tank cuz not only did it not pen nor say anything about a “non-pen,” but somehow the round disappeared and then exploded and did nothing to the tank.
Either they’ve just nerfed America with both the tanks and rounds, or just buffed some other nations, or it’s my skill issue.