Game seems like it has become a lot harder recently, I don’t know if its matchmaking, improved AI, general levelling up of the playerbase, possibly a combination of all of this, but I’ve definatley felt the difficulty ramp up significantly quite recently.
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Idont know, maybe the point need for rank up wo are triplicated now are a clue
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I don’t know. From my experience in Moscow matches seem more empty than before, there’s lot less real players but matches seem hard because bots always kill me from 2km away and it’s really frustrating how they never take cover and always stay in the open so I have a lot of kills but also a lot of deaths because my bots always die 3 seconds after I spawn
I had a match where I was defending a point alone and started shooting at a bot with PPSh at close range only for him to immediately turn around and no-scope me to the head with k-98 as soon as I started firing
The other thing is tank/plane abuse mostly done by axis players by always spawning a tank/plane when they can so you will have games where axis side has much more kills than allies side but still manages to loose because they have more vehicles than infantry
I literally use AT-squad as my main squad because there are more tanks than infantry on the battlefield. So I barely manage to destroy all the tanks just for their team to spawn another 2 tanks literally a second later
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Quote… ‘I had a match where I was defending a point alone and started shooting at a bot with PPSh at close range only for him to immediately turn around and no-scope me to the head with k-98 as soon as I started firing’
Yes I’ve had this too, it’s impossible to clear a room with a ppsh as you’ll just get no scoped by a bot. Interestingly you can run into a room where they’re all wandering about aimlessly and as soon as you fire they usually insta kill you, you’ll be lucky to take out a couple. It seems to be worst at close quaters, kind of defeats the purpose of playing Assault, I think I’d actually be better off with my rifle grenade squads.
On the whole, I do find my bots are getting more kills, and this is the elephant in the room IMHO. To be honest I’d prefer it before when I was getting the kills. If they ramp the bot skills up any more you might as well sit at the spawn drinking tea whilst sending your bots into battle.
I mean I’m still getting good match numbers but it’s 100% less fun.
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So it’s impossible to clear a room with ppsh.
And your bots getting all your kills.
Are you serious? 
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In my experience, if there are 5 or more enemy bot in a room you get 180° no scope by one of them, expecially if you fire a fast fire gun
So… is better nuke the room
I see them kill more now sometime 5 or 6 enemy in some seconds, expecially gunner bot wo are t800 some time
Ya, but you need to adapt and be more careful than before.
It’s still no problem.
Don’t enter the room directly. Take out those bots you see by starting from one corner (left) and sweep to the other (right). Then you have to assume there are more bots in the blind corner and take them out while entering the room.
Prefer it this way, makes it a little bit harder.
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It’s just because ppsh “sucks” because it fires too fast and waste ammo.
It would be “much easier” with op axis mp40, because it does .2 more damage!
Nerf axis!
Joke against mains aside:
I always do this, always worked perfectly. Ppl expect their targets to be sitting idle while they shoot them, because they’re bots… I consider all soldiers human in case of doubt and expect humans to react fast when their pals are getting shot at.
In short: your (and mine too) careful approach is good. Rambos jumping in the middle of full rooms get shot down.
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For me Moscow is full of tryhards with best tanks, planes and weapons so you can’t even kill them unless they are at the cap points getting distracted by the others, Honestly Pacific and Normandy is the worst with bots they shoot you from huge ranges and usually through bushes while human player wouldn’t be able to spot you that easily without spraying like madman
The game is a lot harder now. I think it has a lot to do with the playerbase “Gitting gud” and Darkflow introducing new and interesting ways to kill each other periodically.
I’m using the Japanese smgs and it just straight up isn’t fun, you get 2 bullets into a mag and 2 hitmarkers into a bot before you get shot by every bot in a 2 mile radius through foliage and walls, smgs are useless because they can’t 1 hit and are already uncontrollable, lmgs have lots of recoil and spread so only the bots can use them, semi autos aren’t consistent in their damage so basically you’re stuck on bolt actions even the bots seem to just ignore flamethrowers and just hit you in the face as soon as you start firing
Oh no 1 guy didn’t kill 10 guys easily, how tragic.
Maybe from the bots point of view some tryhard just killed him.
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Bots seem to be less helpless at close range now, but other than that I wouldn’t say the game is “getting harder”. A while ago it was possible to run into a room and knife a virtually unlimited number of bots. Now the third of the fourth one will either shoot you or stab you with a bayonet. A moderately careful approach and long range firefights still work just fine.
It’s normal as time goes people that play regularly get better on a game, as so, the game skill curve tends to get harder as more people get better equipment, vehicles, and game knowledge.
As time goes people also form groups to play with and share knowledge, so a game gets more “difficult”.
That, and all the changes made like slow down once shot, ai improvements, and overall other game core mechanic changes make the game more easy to kill and be killed. Which can go both ways but usually make the game more harder on the reciving end.
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