I honestly don’t know what you mean by that
Almost everyone agrees that soviet body armor is an issue, if not OP on its own at least people agree that it makes no sense to have this as a cosmetic without any drawbacks.
Considering other factions getting body armor, I think this position to have is more controversial.
However let me tell you this, the new premium Japanese bike squad had body armor, and while this seems irrelevant to some since 3 man bike squads are still kinda weak for what they are - what this tells me instead is that the devs are playing it safe, by adding it to a small squad to see our reactions to this. In other words the fact that the devs are experimenting with both bikes and body armor should give you an idea what the devs are thinking.
They are without a doubt interested in the idea of those and if it gets recieved well by the players more might follow.
Well I honestly dont know about this one.
Is Germany lacking new toys to play with? Uh, I don’t think so, we just recently got MG42 100, that Puma SDKFZ with the 7.5cm heat BR2 gun isn’t too old either. Japan is a different issue - its difficult to add stuff since Japan basically only really had Arisakas and MGs. However current BP semi auto is increadibly strong for being a BR3 semi this should count for something.
Don’t forget, next BP gun will be most likely a German gun (seems to be rotating) and so far all of those BP weapons have been pretty strong (arguably too strong), I bet the next German gun is gonna be OP again , just like last MKB. If this trend continues we should actually be worried about the future, but thats a different topic.
Now funny that you mentioned this:
I have literally last week started playing dedicated aircraft for the first time, and so far I want to say that plane balance and BR placements are all over the place - well I am obviously not an expert, but I do have great succes with a couple of planes, specifically like you said with those that have rockets because of their great area damage.
If you know where to aim you can wipe full squads with a single rocket.
Personally I do see that my rockets seem to struggle against tanks - I do not know if I am not aiming correctly or if they are worse than US rockets, again I am no expert, however I don’t like using planes to fight off tanks anyways - unless its a very high valuable target in a dangerous position it seems like a waste of time to me. Hunting infantry “blobs” and destroying APCs is for me a much more valuable thing to do.
Also tho, 500kg Stuka bombs are usable at BR2 - those will kill every enemy tank in one go often even if they managed to drive away from the bomb.
What I find particularly crazy is how Germany has a BR1 fighter with both 20mm guns and a 250kg bomb, or a BR3 plane with a 37mm canon, 30mm canon AND rockets. Those seem completely OP to me for their BR - but again I am no expert, so I can only tell you my thoughts.
So if I combine all those things I come to the conclusion that you are complaining about those points:
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Something about a truck (no idea what you mean)
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Soviet body armor - which I agree and many other do aswell is an existing issue, that however is known to the devs, we only need to be patient about it.
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Germany is lacking gear - which I completely disagree l, German TT is the biggest, Germany has so much stuff already
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Japan is lacking gear - which I completely agree with, they have poor semis, few bad and a couple nice SMGs, no semi sniper, terrible late game AT launchers, weird tank balance BUT I still believe they have the strongest select fire rifle in the game - which should at least be acknowledged as them being viable as a faction IF Japan players put extra focus on their AT weaknesses by having dedicated pilots.
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Both Germany and Japan having recieved no events and special gear - which I dont think is fair to say. Just like you said, the Japanese Tiger is rumoured to get added soon, which would actually help Japan a bit in filling their late BR infantry support role, while also MG42 100 isn’t necessarily an event rewards, but its a highly requested addition to the tech tree and was a successful addition and is appreciated broadly by the players - I personally haven’t seen a single “MG42 OP or mediocre” post yet other than some people being disappointed that it didnt get a 250 round belt or something, but that was kinda ridiculous anyways.
I really dont see why you are complaining about this, these additions are ongoing things, Germany had never stopped getting stuff.
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More love for the Japanese campaign and more urban maps - hu didn’t we just get Burma? I thought people liked that map?