Weapon and vehicle Battle Rating changes! - News - Enlisted
Weapons and vehicles of the “Jet Power” update - News - Enlisted
During the latest updates, it is obvious that the developers are trying to save Soviets and USA/UK in BR I-III from the overwhelming German might, but the result, as there is no publicly available statistical data, is personally speaking invaild.
Taking the Soviet Union as an example, if adding powerful BR II weapons is not working, then the problem should lie with BR I items.
The Tier 1 TT of Soviets is even worse than Japan’s. Soviets have no BR I Attacker. PPD-34 is not that type of novice friendly SMG (800 RPM, while PPS-42 is 600), and the next TOZ-B shotgun may be misleading (its single presence may interrupts playing style).
This is just my speculation (based on replays), but it seems that it is because the Soviets have fewer items on TT, making the roster of Soviet players less sturdy/strengthen than the German players’ when they reached BR II or III as they spend less time, i.e., not fulfilling the maximum numbers of a squad, not equipping every soldier with the best loadout, not fully upgrading their soldiers, etc.
Opinion: Developers should add more weapons that are even just a change of skins to enrich Soviet Tier I-II TT. The good part of such weapons is you will never worry about balance.
Other problems (it is not just about in-match balance) being:
Sb-2m is a Bomber, not an Attacker, it has a different play style with IL-2 and should not appear as the first Attacker for Soviets.
T-28 is meaningless. It has only Shrapnel which cannot even deal with Pz.2C. I don’t understand why it was not changed after merge as its new enemies are capable.
Not only Madsen, but I shall say the whole Soviets MG line is broken. The sad fact is that everytime a weapon suitable of being BR II LMG went to be BR V SLR at last.
No, everytime a suitable item to save TT went to be premium or event.