I played several matches with China, Germany, and Russia, and found that teaming up with Russia almost always guarantees a win. Being on the enemy team against Russia is pure torture. So, I checked the game data, and guess what—Russia has the highest player count and yet still maintains a high win rate! Especially the Mi-28NM, which is not only popular but also extremely powerful. What’s going on here? I remember the developers saying they would balance or nerf vehicles based on their performance. Right now, Russian vehicles are performing exceptionally well, so where is the balance?
One month isn’t really representative of the overall win rates over time (and honestly i don’t think they matter in general).
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Also, if you look at K/D ratio for the same period that you have posted above there is only one Russian vehicle in the top 20 performing vehicles in rank 8.
If Gaijin makes balance adjustments in the Christmas update, then I’ll have nothing to say. But since they haven’t done so yet, I’ll reserve my judgment for now. Additionally, as you said, “You can make numbers mean what you want if you look for things that just confirms your views.” Including ADATS (UK) and ELDI98 is completely pointless—everyone knows they’re useless. What really matters are comparisons like the T-80BVM and Leo 2A7.
The key takeaway that may be missing here is that Gaijin isn’t immediately looking at balancing directly between nations to assess balance for their purposes;
But will act in both Soft (raid the box of languishing bug reports & suggestions to moderate outliers), and Hard (BR & economic pass) ways in order to skew the performance of the Global win rate of all players towards 50% at least that is the job of the matchmaker.
Balance isn’t really based on win-rates though, they balance vehicles individually based on their efficiency (how much score/SL/RP/etc they earn per spawn) and a couple of other factors.
They usually also make larger changes to BR’s in one go where they also ask for feedback beforehand. It’s very seldom they do balance changes together with other larger updates or change BR on just a few vehicles.
They do adjust things out of sequence when they adjust the maximum BR’s (to make use of the new ceiling), and occasionally should a large revision of features occur.
if you look at this is stats you can see that it is massively driving up russian winrates
and is the second highest winrate vehicle in the game at high tier (rank 6+)
“We want to close the gap between ground vehicles and aircraft balance at top tier, so we are introducing new advanced SAMs” to just break this promise in less than 2 updates with DLIRCM.
It was added in the update after it, if I remember right. But they butchered the only SAM in the game that can contest aircraft in the game in just 2 updates.
