Yeah, its why the CQB maps kinda suck at times, Soviets tanks are well suited for it:
Found this breakdown before which is quite good
First is engagement rules: IRL, most tank fight at very long ranges (kilometres) with your tank retreating after every shot fired. In War Thunder, tanks are mostly forced in close quarters, meaning rushing the enemy is a good tactic as you won’t get sniped by someone you can’t even see (most of the time). Since War Thunder needs you to capture point, you are forced to push points (This helps Russia’s doctrine heavily).
Design: Russian tanks are made with the doctrine of pure assault in mind, and it shows. They’re smaller and have a better profile thanks to their autoloader and have great frontal armor. NATO MBTs were made to counter those tanks but were expected to be used in entrenched, hull down position. They’re larger and usually have weak hull armor compared to their godlike turrets. They’re still very much capable of attacking thanks to their great mobility, but their weaknesses are easily exploited at short ranges when attacking since the enemy just has to aim center mass most of the time while you are forced to aim at specific weakspots to kill Russian MBTs. - Reddit
That’s why its all over their tanks? It’s mainly their only source of protection, remove it then it would decrease the survivability and make it a light tank.
Also this doesnt factor in the fact that US quite often make up the bulk of the team where has Italy, Britain, France, etc usually make up the minority. Have you ever seen a Britain only team? Whilst ive been in matches as the only non-Abrams on the team.
As a result, this skews W/L ratios.
Also W/L is a terrible argument for vehicle balancing. Because what next. SepV2 to 10.3?
US is one of the most popular nations in game, so the attract everyone.
But for example Britain, anyone playing a CR2 has gone through the dark BRs of APDS only and so knows how to aim and anyone else, has probably given up and gone to US, USSR or Germany
using winrates is kinda stupid in a game that dosent have SBMM
because you are assuming that all the differnet players of the different nations have the same skill level
We have no idea if War Thunder has SBMM or not. I think we can all agree that there has been more than enough examples of Gaijin going back on their word or lying. The “trust me bro” argument doesn’t work here. We will most likely never know as well.
if we had SBMM, you would not have level 15 premiums in the same lobby as level 100s with a TT vehicle. That would just never happen even with the worst SBMM setup
Like never ever? Like the very common scenario of taking a low level friend who just bought a premium T-80 on sale and is in your party? Like that never happens in your experience?
