Great now the game is even more ruined than it was. Everyone will play allies and against bots because axis is even more unplayable. Why ?
Well, Berlin and Normandy was basically the only 2 campaigns where an axis player had a chance of winning with randoms, now Berlin is also unplayable because the new IS-2 is even harder to kill, the IL-2 still has more resistance against MGs than a literal tank. And the AVT-40 + AS44 spam combined with the upcoming new MM that takes player level into account is garbage it gives the allies even more advantage than before.
And most importantly many players grind for the new tanks so most of the games are filled with top level players, who play with other top levels in coop to make it even better. Yes axis players also do that, but I’ve seen soviet top level players a lot more often than axis ones. Also in most maps in Berlin there’s way too much cover because everything is a pile of debris and the sovies guns are a lot better at close range.
Stalingrad is just the question of who can spam more ppsh41/mkb 42/mp717. And when it gets to tank combat greyzone camper kv-1 spam happens every game. Good luck defeating those with paper panzers. (Yes they can be penetrated but theres always 2 of them and they are really tanky and can one shoot you, well balanced. Only reasonable way to kill them is Stuka suicide bombing. TNT charge would work, but their natural habitat is in the grey zone and you can’t even physically reach them.
Tunesia was already british AT gun+mg+sherman 3 spam+snipers on roof which is already a dead sentence, especially since most players are bots or low levels, nothing changed. Lack of cover and open fields in most maps doesn’t help either, and smoke grenades dont last forever. Only way to win is spam flamethrowers and pray that your teammates are not entirely retarded or literally bots.(Which is usually not the case.)
If you don’t believe me, play 2 battles Tunesia Axis, then 2 battles Tunesia Allies and you will get an emotional shock.
Pacific is also garbage, the M13 half track doesnt blow up from the Japanese heavy MG unless I shoot all crew members, the ammo rack doesnt blow up, even if I shoot it with heavy MG for 2 minutes. The M2 browning is better in every way, well balanced. The Japanese get a sword, while the Jenkys get a full-auto shotgun. Well balanced. As for tanks the Japanese tank mgs are even worse than the infantry ones and the cannon is joke, paper armor doesn’t help much either. Most of the games is M50 reising spam versus the bolt actions and type hei. They are all good guns but most of the combat takes place in close range anyways, so smg spammer monkeys will win either way.
Normandy is somewhat balanced and playable unless someone takes a P47 and nukes the entire map.
And when you kill them a new one will appear 30 seconds later. I mean the Ju-188A is also very powerful but theres a huge difference. Tigers were only playable in Normandy (IS-2+Panzerfaust spam in every corner in Berlin), now with the new Sherman soon they will be unplayable everywhere, good job. This is important because now it will be harder to defend from Sherman Jumbo spam.
Moscow the OG campaign would be one of the best, but it is ruined by tank spam in open areas where the Russian tanks are better in both firepower and armor at every unlock level. And then theres the Fedorov spam and the early unlock laser SMGs.
(Personal opinion of a 70% win rate axis main, 1800 battles played.)