here are some hot takes I’ve been thinking about as someone that clocked over 1.5k hours and my experienced friends and some pubbies also somewhat agreed to them while we were playing (including the new balance changes) so feel free to discuss or give out your hot takes
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gaijin listens to bad players a lot which ruins the game: Low level players did many things to harm the game. Since they are the majority thanks to wot dying and everyone now playing WT gaijin opts to them which leads to bad br compression especially at cold war era, new tanks not being balanced enough because most of the playerbase says “xm800 is fine facing t72s because my fav cc got 10 kills in it even though his life is this game” to gaijin and most tanks flying under the radar in br changes
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- Also gaijin ruined events and free2play because bad players pushed for the economy changes (which isnt bad btw) which in the long run made the greedballs at gaijin turn the coupon grind for events from a free 50+ dollars you get for playing a game which you can spend on prems to a 9/5 for a 30 dollar vehicle which is literally not worth it even if you are from a poor country. Which in turn literally ruined f2p gameplay of the game.
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- Another thing done by bad players (which is really bad) is the horrible compression of 6.7 to 9.0 which was caused by new players getting mad by being killed by a leo1 mainly in their tiger2 (which can easily fight leo) and flooding forums with requests of balance changes. The balance changes basically made 6.7 the meta tier and killed the early cold war vehicles like patton and leo by putting them one tier up than the place they were originally balanced on that made high tier basically a hellhole to grind and play. Basically no mans land. And also messed up the meta by making bad vehicles that went under the radar incredibly strong (Which I’ll get into) and created a mass concentration of players in 6.7 that also ruined 5.0 to 6.0 players which struggled against chonker heavies. Dont expect a guy with 30 hours in game to delete a T34 with the T-34. They also kinda ruined big maps like maginot becoming miniscule and sinai getting lobotomized but it isnt really a huge deal and mainly affects the top tier glass cannons which isnt really the majority of the playerbase other than me and like 5 guys that those, cant have nice things I guess
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Sweden and France Bad Isnt True: Sweden and France I and people I play with believe are extremely strong especially in some tiers even though most people are posing the idea they are trash. I believe this is the case of mainly their vehicles going under the radar and not being balanced. The France and Sweden bad arguments are made up by players that like the said factions by nitpicking the bads of the factions and using the 5+ year old arguments about france so other players are hesitant to grind out to the good stuff and there will be less people abusing strong vehicles. The main arguments of the said factions being bad is either extremely nitpicked (pvkv 4 bad because turret doesnt turn, france early tier horrible, sweden sabot is bad because others get aphe etc.) which are basically dumb other than france one. Most of these arguments either point out a vehicle in a good lineup being bad; like pvkv being bad even though anti 2 is the same tier which is broken, or batchat 25 being bad even though other vehicles of the the 7.7 france are goated and batchat is the only one that is overtiered at 8.0. I believe france is the less powerful one mainly because its top tier is bad and low tier is bad ( even though low tier doesnt really matter). But it still has most of the good vehicles of major factions at other tiers up until Amx30 and even that is only bad because of bad map design of wt. Glass cannons arent that good in the game anymore. Sweden case is much different because it is good at all ranks with exceptions of minor vehicles being bad. Strv122 81 103 Ikv Bkan are all good. And lower tier tanks are goated with the sabot. I find it funny how some people see it as a disadvantage lmao. As if 37 solid shot or 45 aphe is derpy. I mean at least say they got bad gun handling that is true rather than making things up. This doesnt include Air btw because I havent played air other than US and Ger so I dont think it is right for me to speak. But I genuinely find Strv103 fighting m48s and t54s pretty funny considering it was designed 20 years after them to literally be immune to them lol. Anyway in the end these “bad vehicles” got buffed a lot when other vehicles got nerfed with br decompression of 6.7 matches. And vehicles like strv and somua went from fighting t62s and maybe 72s to t55s which basically made them broken. And fans of the vehicles kept them broken by yapping about the 5+ year old arguments about how france was made bad because their players were good, or the same story for the sweden.
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Overpressure is dumb and should be either removed or replaced: Overpressure was initially intended as a replacement for hull break which was broken but was fair. While worked well for a while the he slinger spam in the last two years basically showed how broken it was. Its effects are extremely exaggarated and especially with the campy and close combat nature of wt maps it basically lowered the skill ceiling by a huge margin thanks to someone being able to turn off his brain and one shotting your mbt from a random place every 15 seconds or even lower with autoloader. Derp was also ruined like kv2s because of that. Imho it should be removed for sake of open tops, or anything that isnt arty and at worst gaijin should implement the hull break again in some sort if people want to oneshot lights. I believe getting derp guns to lower tiers, decreasing their number and turning them into og kv2 that required brain functions to use. Gaijin can also increase their pen because nobody cares a bit about how much he pens. But we do care about how a 75 he overpressuring a panzer 4 or a artillery unit from 90s fighting and somehow overpressuring a 50s mbt being unfair and broken right? Honestly crazy how gaijin even attempted implementing howitzers after the wot arty ruining the game but anyway.
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Copy paste should be removed: We should remove all copy paste branches and mix them into some unified tree like eastern europe or sth. Would give gaijin the ability to implement nations with too little unique vehicles and most players including me have been pushing this for years. Nobody cares a bit about Thailand but people would care about being able to play the 7tp, m84 or oplot in a single tree. Wot mobile did this a while ago. Wargame has been known to give you access to multiple nations of region for more units etc.
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US cas is the strongest: Probably the hottest take I have is US air being weaker than SOV and GER in ground rb. Obviously better by a huge margin in ARB. I do believe especially germans have got an advantage in cas mainly because their meta cas is usually extremely unconventional compared to others. Like for example an Arado or Me262 is obviously worse on paper compared to a p47. But the vehicles basically being hit and run jets and other major powers not having good aa (especially US) compared to Ger makes them much more annoying to deal with imo. And around tiers where Ger cas is bad Cas overall gets less useful thanks to everyone having radar spaas and missiles. While others also have similiar planes to duck or me262 like the italian duck or p63 as I said they arent really that annoying to deal with compared to german counterparts. Ger cas being capable of striking from much higher altitude is also an upside. But in all honesty this isnt a hill I would die on since I only play air rb at top tier and generally avoid playing cas in general.
-As for the upcoming balance changes I believe they have done a really good job especially with f16 adf aim120 kt nerf and kv2 buff which are goated. Both kv2 being reloaded in 40s and kt being able hit 40kph with all that ground resistance and weight was inaccurate and it is nice for them to fix it. Idk how to feel about most vehicles being moved up in br especially patton series.
Btw remove seversk 13
its trash
please share your opinions btw, I like arguing with people that genuinely care about the game rather than their numbers going up