I’m a big fan of progression rework but as always I’m not sure if we are going to see balanced teams.
Germany issue
Germany will have access to most enlisted maps and will therefore be the most played campaign 100%
I’ve already seen players grouping up in a single campaign and this will probably be Germany after the update. Maybe this will change when a lot of players finish grinding Germany and move to other campaigns
Germany also has the best tank (Tiger 1 & 2) and will receive all the annoying rocket bombers from Normandy
Soviet issue
In terms of infantry weapons it will undoubtedly be USSR just like now
Best rifle: Soviet union
Best assault rifle: Soviet Union
Best SMG: soviet union
Soviet infantry weapons are very strong for close combat and it’s the easiest faction for new players. Will probably be the 2nd most played campaign
USA issue
USA will be weaker than Germany and USSR and definitely less meta
Lack of assault rifle doesn’t help as well
There is no high capacity mg available until late level
Planes are going to be very deadly though (Normandy spam)
UK/Italy issue
They are not going to be meta
No meta guns here outside drum Thompson and Berretta
Tanks are garbage on both sides
Will only be matched against early level enemies and will have little player interest
Japan issue
There is nothing meta on this campaign and very few automatic weapons available
Will only be matched against early USA. Will have no player interest
germany should be most played faction for anything to be balanced. uk/italy just need to combine with low-mid level german/US side and you will get balance. japan will be played by people who want pacific.
Give them late war equipment and new places to fight.
Italy can fight soviet in eastern front or fight UK and US in the invasion of Italy.
UK can fight Japan in the Pacific.
Japan can fight Soviet Union in Manchuria or Khalkhin gol.
Its going to entirely depend on what battle rating you are at. Even if one faction has better weapons. Those weapons will not show up in every battle rating. The best weapons will appear at the highest ratings and will always play against the other faction’s best. If the weapons need balancing from there, they will.
If they decide to separate ratings by era. This will still be true since the best weapons are generally in later eras to others.
I don’t think they’ll be weaker just because they don’t have the equipment at the moment. They could still put up a good fight depending on the skills of the individual player with the current equipment. It would be nice to have a Pershing to fight heaver tanks though but a Sherman 76 and even a M8 Scott can still kill a Tiger.
For sure this faction needs more content to compete with late war US, UK, and maybe USSR if they add the Battle for Manchuria. At the moment we only have 29 levels out of the 11 promised for the campaign, but since we’re getting a rework who knows. They are really lacking in the tank department if anything and I hope they stop adding event or even premium vehicles from this faction to take away from the regular progression like the Chi-Ha or Chi-Ha Kai.
The entire game is on german player shoulder they are the opposing force in 5 campaign
the too much good soviet gear in the update is no longer an issue outiside high-end BR MM, usually whe get some mp40 or beretta vs ppd drum and ppsh drum, now whe get some mp40 and beretta vs the box pdd/ppsh and the pps
sure usa have bad equipment but is sufficient avoid use high-end thompson who i recall be worse than the brithis lanchester for avoid find stg44 and fg42II from the other side and get balanced battle
UK and Italy are not even sure come with their tech tree for now, keofox confirmed they are germany and US reskinned so maybe and probably first tech tree dont contain them and all their squad are the germany and US tunisia skin
japanese for me become the most sidegrade faction of the game if you watch japanese ww2 equipment whe already have almost all japanese infantry one so outiside you want unlock 3 type of the same tank with another cannon or tons of planes variant i doubt they get played outiside some random battle expecially because they can play only in 2 pacific map
What we see right now is Germany players grinding Berlin so they get everything Germany has to offer when the new progression system comes out. As for Soviet you could get almost everything in Moscow and Stalingrad with the only huge difference between those campaigns and Berlin were the vehicles along with some weapons like the PPS-43, DPM and RD-44. Even AVT-40 can be unlocked in Stalingrad so those who are still grinding doesn’t necessarily need to grind for the gun in Berlin as its much faster and cheaper to have fully upgraded AVT-40s in Stalingrad if you have full access.
Nah, I would not go with Moscow/ only if you dont have the access. Good stuff is locked at late level beyond PPD.
Soviets in Berlin have best At weapons in their section, all good SMGs apart from early PPD and the T-34-85, SVT-40, all MGs and the Avtom and AVT… and AVS if you like it.
Its better in terms of unlocking.
Also, Berlin is maybe sole balanced campaign in terms of player numbers so you have better chances for getting sufficient xp per match.
SG is good for gettting AVT and all future mid tanks.
Moscow maybe for the IL-2 sponge.
And then they would face at lesst two factions (three with Tommies) accross at lesst three BRs (assuming it goes like early/mid and late). And rn most people spam late gear Germany only.
Kinda concerning.
I dont know. I assume mid USSR will have similiar gear as they have in SG rn ans SG is mostly Soviet botfarming and I dont know if people suddenly like to face KVs again.
Thinking about that, it would help to reduce Jumbo and P-47 spam since these would probably get high BR.
It will be kinda funny if no one wants to play against German high tier (STG + FG 42 II + King Tiger) so the German mains are left with bot mathes even with this new glorious MM
Or if DF decides to decompress BRs if the same BR can’t be found and German high tier players will again simply maul undertiered guys with SVTs and Garands
