I have noticed this as well. I LOVE that about Berlin though. Winning as Germany feels awesome when you do it because it is more rare right?
I donāt think anyone is suggesting it should be a cakewalk. The communists had an impressive variety of combat effective equipment fielded in Berlin.
The gameplay loop of do well and then DEFEAT just gets annoying.
Iāve been collecting data on my solo plays as Germany since that faction has been brought up a lot lately with regard to balance. I think data always provides people with an easy way to erase cognitive bias.
I donāt really track my US/Soviet matches because I donāt feel like every match with those factions NEEDS to be a hard carry. Itās much more chill and I still win regularly.
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I am sure it was annoying to the last Defenders in 1945 to be pushed into their own capital by the same military Germany watched lose to the Finns LOL.
I personally think Germany Should be at a disadvantage in Berlin and perhaps the rewards for winning as Germany should just be higher to compensate. Hell maybe German team will learn to actually work together instead of posting clips of premium mp40 clips on discord.
That was my first time on Discord last night, now I see why game dev prefer not to interact with their customers XD
Edit add me in game if you want to squad and actually win in Berlin once in awhile!
Yeah I canāt say I blame them either.
heres my progress so far. the one game we won so far we barely won. You can see how much points wise we are down, in many cases its more than half. I havent played normandy in a while so idk how ābalancedā it is there, but in Berlin theres definitely a problem.
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ah, ive seen you in a couple games. Ill send my discord through messages, altho i really only play as the lone wolf in terms of squading up with others.
Having only recently (last night) gotten CBT Berlin access myself, I can certainly say I feel that the german side feels as if itās at a distinct disadvantage at the moment. Iām currently playing with the select-a-side turned off for Berlin, and so far Iāve only lost once as Soviets in any match Iāve played as them, and that was in conquest. Germans Iāve won only once, in conquest, never won an invasion map. Iāve not started taking down hard stats on a table, but I figure Iāll set one up on google docs myself now.
A few things Iāve noted thusfar playing, insofar as my observations and opinions go;
- the starting SMG is considerably better for the Soviets than for the Germans, and with the close ranges of the maps on berlin, Assaulters are quite important.
- Neither sets of teams tend to put down many respawn beacons, itās even worse than Normandy in this regard.
- The capture points in the invasion game mode have a large number of flanks on both the route to and in direct access to the capture point, making it difficult to hold the position.
- It feels like thereās a lack of defensive emplacements near capture points compared to the likes of Normandy, and as such itās rather difficult to put up any real fight at capture zones in comparison.
- The Pz. IVJ struggles vs the T-34-85ās - not as badly as the M5 Stuart vs the Panzers on Normandy, but itās worse than the Soviet counterpart to a notable degree.
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I feel the same, Im maxed on Soviets, its so much easier levelling on Soviet than Germans
Yeah I think Iām done with this game at the very least until the next major update. this is awful.
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