But the matchmaking loves to do this…
Based on your experience, what are the odds of USA side winning? (lol)
Hell even with me, Who is to my Knowledge one of the best Challenger 2 players there is on the NA server, We lose.
You just can’t fight back against that matchmaking.
The only decent chance you have is if you have 1-2 really good Type-90 Fuji players. But other than that you are just screwed.
2A7s/Strv 122s: Allow us to introduce ourselfs
Funny how those always end up on the same team as the russians tho… isn’t it?
Only SPAA is the best and A2G missile.
Finished this match top of the team BTW. with 4 ground kills.
We can’t even fight back against these guys.
It mainly just comes down to this, right?
Spoiler
Russia has a low skill floor for their tanks, allowing more players to make more mistakes with their vehicles which in turn makes them better for the maps and game modes gaijin gives us.
Germany and Sweden being grouped with them with the best tanks compound on this issue.
USA (as an example) on the other side has a higher skill floor, but an even higher skill ceiling, allowing good players to play better then any Russian ever could with their tanks. But the higher skill floor means that even an average player will struggle with using it, even without the maps and game modes against them.
I got like 2 options.
A. Give the USA like nations a low skill floor tank. Something that could be used by the average player that gives more mistakes.
B. Add a game mode that doesn’t promote close range (<2km) allowing USA like tanks to be more easily used to their advantages.
Quite contrary, they will punish you a lot if you don’t know how to work around their crippling flaws.
M1s aren’t that hard to play as you might believe.
They are pretty much only limited in the armor department, but even in that they’re far from being the worst.
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I think the single biggest factor in why US fails so hard at top tier is the premium spam. RU has the exact same issue at 10.3.
I don’t play top tier US, I mostly play ISR who is MM ‘tied’ to US, and if I had a penny for everytime I checked the scoreboard a couple minutes into the match, and was greeted by a list of Clickbait, AIM, RDF/LT, Wolfpack, Greekpache, F-20, F4S, A10A etc etc who all went back to hangar already, I’d be a very rich man.
We can talk about adding new things for top tier US in the tech tree as a remedy all we want, but the brutal reality is, most people playing top tier US probably aren’t anywhere near unlocking such things in the tree itself. They’re still dozens / hundreds of hours of grind away.
GER, RU, SWE, CN etc are all defined by what the strongest vehicles in their tech tree’s are, as that’s what most of their players are using at top tier. Whereas US is defined by what its strongest vehicles on the store are, as that’s what they’re mostly using.
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I mean that is pretty much the case for any top tier MBT that isn’t an uparmored Leo 2 version.
Abrams and T-80BVM both have to work around crippling flaws.
And the absolutely horrible AGM spam that’s happening right now. su34/rafale/rarely f15 gets in, spams all their missiles and either dies or camps the air spawn. It’s simply not fun to play the rest of the game when someone does that. I used to criticize 1 death leavers a lot but after seeing the KH38 spam at toptier I’ve found that its honestly more enjoyable to simply leave once they start doing it, and to hell with the winrates
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Yeah, It’s brutal. Like i said, i mostly play ISR at top tier, so not only do i lack an SPAA that can take down aircraft at standoff ranges like the American’s also suffer with, but with both Machbet/Chaparral being IR guided only, i have no ability to intercept munitions either. Literally, completely defenceless against KH38’s. We and US are mostly MM tied to each other, and it’s awful having such collectively poor AA options on one team.
I’d be lying if i said there weren’t games where i was just getting blasted by CAS so hard i left out of frustration, so i understand your point.
I don’t blame premiums solely for US’ winrate plight, i just believe it’s one (and a big one) of multiple contributary factors.
Between the ungodly amount of premiums and massive tech tree that could literally be shortened down by foldering every copy-paste vehicle, the only other thing going against America is just how underwhelming their tanks are. I can complain about American CAS, but their tanks and SPAAs are just terrible compared to Germany, Russia, and Sweden. The only thing worse would be Israel.
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Troll-y armour, Pantsirs, Vikhrs and Kh-38s? yeah, that is the most predictable russian loadout in every game I play.
how does this not get flagged but a self censored f-bomb does??? lmao
Have no idea, what u all talking about…
The match isn’t decided on who is playing with russia, but getting the most nations together with USA so there are as few as possible US players.
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Typical US deadweight.