The lack of fun in Soviet BR5 is due to multiple factors. The weakness in automatic rifles (the AVS is quite good, but I can’t maintain the high level of concentration needed to achieve a 70% hit rate for an entire match), the AVT’s 15-round magazine being far inferior to the T20, and the Fedorov—while excellent and beloved by many—are all issues. Additionally, the Soviets only have one tank that can provide both anti-infantry and anti-tank support: the T-34/100, while the Germans can easily rain down 88mm artillery.
The Yak-9K also seems really fun—I’ll buy it during the next sale.
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and why do my Soviet teammates always have Mosin-Nagants?
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I don’t play level five Soviets for one reason, I always get my ass kicked playing level five Soviets. Approximately 15 or 20 games played level five Soviets, only “ONE” win and the rest were Seal Clubbings. If I play level five, it is Allies or Germans. No anti Japanese bias, I don’t have any level five Japanese weapons yet, just up to level four in the TT.
Yeah, at BR 5, the USSR doesn’t have a 100mm gun tank that can reliably stand up to the Tiger II. The ones they do have are either too hard to get or just not good enough. Also, the rifle situation is kinda messed up—the AVT and AVS basically do the same thing, so that needs fixing
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The AVS and AVT only have minor stat differences, but the AVS deals more damage—making the choice obvious.
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Massive skill issue. Why not use overpowered RD-44 instead of crying about AVS-36 which is actually really good post buff? Would 5 more rounds make it actually good? It’s already good enough you don’t need to be the best in every single weapon and vehicle type. That’s the asymetrical balance mate and you want overbuff soviets even more
Tanks in most Berlin locations are worthless as you always have narrow corners or a lot of flanking routes where infantry or tanks can take you out.
- Fedorov Rifle/MG/Avtomat = better than anything that Germany has
- AS-44 = straight upgrade to STG44 (bayonet and minor stats all upgraded)
- RD-44 = best TT lmg in the game
- PPSh-41 drum = best TT smg in the game
- RMN-50 = usable even at BR5, and since grenade rifle nerfs it’s only nade launcher that can still murder groups of the enemies
- LAD = not a single German smg can have 150 rounds
- NKVD Tommies = do i need to add more?
- AT-44 = after a buff it’s the best mid range AR in the game perfect accuracy with above average rof
- Body armor: Ever dreamed of cosplaying Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Then here we go! We have also provided handy bonus of +10% bullet protection and 1% chance of ricochet and negating all damage.
- Su-9 = better jet than Me262
- 2x Paratroopers = can hold 6x Fedorovs or AS-44 + RD-44 x3 from the box
- Soviet Assault engineers = 6x Fedorovs (Ass engies are nothing special as Germany has them but Germany has not a single equivalent of buffed Fedorov)
- La-7 = really solid plane with great turn rate
Soviets of BR5 are way more fun to play as they have lot of variety while Germany has none it’s either KT that explodes instantly or with small delay or just boring ass STG44/FG42/MG42 100 (pure garbage vs RD-44)
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Yeah, AVT.
As it has much better sights.
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Oh, you’re one of those braindead Wehraboos who’s like: ‘Oooh nooo, the FG 42 is soooo weak!! Its RoF makes it uncontrollable—it’s basically a BR 5 PPD-34!!’ Bro, maybe try NOT mag-dumping like a monkey or using full-auto at 100m like a clown? Ever heard of… burst firing? Or, I dunno, switching to semi-auto? Nah, clearly it’s the gun’s fault.
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Oh yeah, better sights—just like the Mosin’s amazing ironsights! That must be why every Soviet player at BR 5 is running around with a bolt-action rifle. Totally because of the incredible sights and definitely not because they have no other good options. Genius logic right there.
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Yes, let’s twist the context into something else entirely.
The only thing I was responding to was the personal preference between AVT and AVS. 
I never said I would take Soviet SF rifles over SF rifles of other factions.
But okay, lol. XD
Btw. It’s quite obvious Federov should be reclassified to SF rifle. The weapon has no plane to be classified as Assault rifle.
=> Soviets getting SF rifle with 25 round instead of just 15.
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If the devs could actually get their shit together, we’d have the M2 Carbine in the SMG line and the Johnson LMG in the rifle tree by now. But no, instead we get these half-assed T20 and Hyde M1944 prototypes nobody asked for.
Didnt know it was fighting the T20?
As such?
It’s actually three.
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Some people did definitely ask for them.
So, the 422 completely outclasses the AVT-40—it’s not even worth discussing. As for the IS-2 tank, I can’t stand its reload time, and the SU-100 doesn’t even have a turret.
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But comparing weapons that dont face each other is?
That doesn’t make the shells of the IS2 and IS2 M1944 weaker.
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A bayonet knife on an assault rifle is not much more useful than a bayonet knife on a Type 99.
Yes, the RD-44 is the best machine gun in the game, as is the Fedorov submachine gun, which is also a very good assault rifle, but there are only 4 of them per squad, while there can be 9 automatic rifles in a squad, and a large number of bots with good weapons are more resilient than fewer bots with a great weapon.
Explain to me why everyone is praising drumming on your forum so much? It is useless when shooting beyond 20 meters, it is much more logical to extol the Shpagin submachine gun, it has more cartridges and higher accuracy, it is much better than PPSH, but for some reason everyone is talking only about PPSH, although it is useless in attack, all the weapons of the Germans have a significantly superior effective range, if not If you go into the rear with a PPSH or not fight with it in narrow spaces, then its use is much less comfortable than with the same AC 44.
LAD is complete crap, its rate of fire does not allow you to kill opponents as effectively as with a Kenders machine gun.
The chance of a rebound is in cuirasses — it’s just ridiculous, and 10% damage protection does not make a fighter invulnerable, on low combat ratings the majority of players use rifles with a longitudinally sliding bolt, and their damage is always excessive regardless of the presence or absence of cuirasses, and on high combat ratings the rate of fire and damage of all German weapons are completely neutralize the effect of cuirasses on the TTK.
It is useless to take paratroopers into account in the balance, since a small number of players have them compared to the majority of players, and the NKVD and Tommigan have even a smaller stratum of players.
In short, the Soviets have only the Fedorov submachine gun and RD-44, but it is impossible to use them massively as good guns for the Germans, the German squad for playing on high combat ratings with a basic number of slots is 3 detachments of 9 soldiers with FG—42/2 and Tiger 2 tank, and the Soviet one is an assault squad. there are 6 engineers with a Fedorov machine gun, another squad of machine gunners with RD—44, where there are only 3 machine guns, and a squad of attack aircraft with a Fedorov machine gun is 4 machine guns, for a total of 27 of the best German guns against a maximum of 13 of the best Soviet guns, and then if the player is lucky and has a squad of assault engineers, and if there is none Then we need to take another squad of machine gunners or stormtroopers. Well, the slot of the equipment is either SU-9 or KV 2.
Well, the LA-7 is a compromise of firepower and maneuverability, for some reason such compromises do not apply to the Germans in relation to the BF 109 K—4, which combines excellent maneuverability, good directional armament, and a good bomb.
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When the IS-2 misfires, you can only take cover in the bunker and watch as the Tiger II’s loader fires two rounds in the time it takes the IS-2 to fire one. is2：16.8 s Tiger II：6.8s
yeah mosin’s clear sight make it op, thats why we soviet keep using it in br V, a good sight mean a good gun
I Only Play BR2 and B3 for All Factions.
No, Fedorov should be a MG and be moved to lower BRs - since they lack variety of weapons.
Instead what could be done is the devs being a bit more bold with weaker select fire rifles and assault rifles, why not move AVS to BR4 but with a damage nerf to deal MG like two hit kill dmg, while giving AVT a well deserved 20 round mag at BR5? While at it lower MKB to BR4 aswell.