We aren’t and I am responding to a point made,but history is history.How many players still take a vehicle of much lower BR into battle because they know that they will get kills for little SP.The SAV at 5-6 BR ?
I would really want to see new gamemodes that could be made with a premise of historical matchmaking, but I just know the results.
Most of people will try to play the best available vechicles, while crying that they are still dying.
Most of the vechicles would turn unplayable for casual player.
At the moment we have shitty matchmaking made for casual player and that is what we need to work with.
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Yeah I have given up on that long ago.
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I have to be honest, lately M-51 was one of the few tanks that gave me some fun in the game.
Not to mention some situations when HEAT just didn’t do anything.
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I have the opposite experience.
My Panther D especially hits very hard with its 75mm. Even in Full uptiers.
The 88mm on the Tigers was never really my forte, but when I use it it still performs exeptionally well compared to other guns at that rank and BR. (Like the US 76mm and 90mm, or the UK 16 pdr and 17 pdr or even the 85mm of the soviets.)
Basically every shot with the 88mm on any target that activates your fuse you’ll get a one-shot. Almost the same with the 75mm. Also at 6.0 you still have a very strong panther line-up, which can yield you many kills if played well in a 6.7 uptier.
Nowadays the competition with other tanks that have been introduced into the game is much stronger (more WW2 tanks, Artillery from the '50s and light para-tanks from the 50s-60s.), but they still hold strong. Which can’t be said about most teammates in Germany, but then again, these issues are also seen with US and USSR players depending on the time of day you’re playing. XD
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I have played it quite a lot and it was fun.HEAT is hit and miss sometimes.I just noticed the difference as a German main of sorts.
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As I started Ground RB as a British main, I have memorised all ammo-placements of the most seen vehicles in game, that knowledge is very OP when having HEAT at 6.0, I’ll tell ya.
Indeed very different from having a solid-shot round like on the 16 pounder or APHE on the German guns :)
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I played the Finland map with the Russia 2S1 as a newbie with it and with it un modded and hit about 5 Panthers front on as the came down the hill.I just hid behind a rock and hit them one shot.Funny but so out of place.How people think that is balanced WW2 play is beyond me.
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Artillery is indeed very strong in the hands of an experienced player. Especially in close quarter maps, which GJN has many of in this game.
Then again, War Thunder isn’t a WW2 game anymore, only in certain events we can still play WW2. Or at very low BR Simulator (1.7-2.3 or 2.3-3.3) you can still experience this. The moment you have to balance vehicles around their effectiveness (aka SL/RP gain, which is what GJN, persumably, does), then all historical matchmaking gets thrown out of the window, as that is inheritly unbalanced, just like IRL it was.
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Self propelled artillery got added and it fucked up the BR quite badly, other than that id say germany 5.7-6.7 is amazing other than the teammates
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Gaijin happened.
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It was just about a WW2 game when I started,hanging on by it’s teeth.Italy already had its superfast APCs .One of which was about 4 BR and ruining every bodies game now it is at 6BR so point proven.
The M51 came in and caused upset then the flood of M109 copy pasted into nearly every nation and then the Russians had to have their version and 6BR just lost it’s way for me completely.No interest in playing it.
Maybe the Artillery spam has died off now ,I might try it again but I have little enthusiasm.
Been talking to quite a few who feel the same way and many players have dropped back to 5BR max where the game is most enjoyable.
I think even a few top tier players have come back down to the tiers where War Thunder made sense.
Had a few 4BR games where Germany stomped it ,played a a good few as Russia(my second main) and we lost a few against Germany too.
I think some vets are coming in from above and making low tier/mid tier Germany great again…I sound like a kind of Adolf Trump …sorry : )
Both can do it from the front, still not a fair fight.
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Not a fair fight but it was the fight that would have actually happened in reality.Fights are often not fair.
The German 88 has some of the most explosive filler at its BR, what do you mean?
And yeah, the KwK42 has poor post pen performance, that’s made up for by the high penetration.
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Agreed but again it’s just like choosing the least manky leaper
But why does it behave like that in this game?:
Man do I wish we could have another game mode for historical on top of AB, RB, and Sim. A 4th mode for historical. I wish there was a way to make it authentic, such as only allowing 2 or 3 tigers per team. Maybe make it so each team represents an actual division, so the tank structure is limited.
I get the struggle of balancing, but it would just be cool to see. I do think it could create for more tactical maneuvering. Such as, sure, you got a tiger posted laying down whoop ass on anything that gets in it’s sights. But that’s where you flank it with 2 or 3 stuarts and take it out.
A man can dream eh?
When it comes to historical matchmaking, it was tested. But as people guessed at that time, many people hoped to play the best vechicles available making queues a mess.
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Wdym? Are you asking why it’s projectile has two driving bands, instead of one?