I mainly play top tier air battles and have noticed along with other friends that you will not get smaller matches anymore. It seems like the community has silently allowed gaijen to get away with this. I have made a bug report and have seen numerous other bug reports being closed on this matter. As a player that plays this game extensively even on the competitive side (TSS) it would be nice to have smaller lobbies so that planes such as the F-2A can be more prominent. At the moment the meta is shifted towards having higher missile payload and planes with less armament such as f16’s and jf17 for example will suffer in a 16v16 mode.
At the moment smaller lobbies only work for ground rb from what I’ve seen and tested.
Please make bug reports on this matter so this can be properly addressed!
This is the bug report I made which is being ignored!
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/utDcSUdteqdt