The main idea of the merger was to make the game fairer for the players, however this is far from being solved, there are still games that feel empty or that one side has a much greater advantage than the other and here is my main point. complaint, Br, honestly tier 1 should NOT be matched against tier 3, a while ago I played a game where my entire team including myself had tier 1 equipment, while the enemy side were almost all tier 3 and evidently we couldn’t do almost nothing and it’s not a skill problem, literally the guys didn’t even let us respawn. In tier 3 there are quite advanced weapons and an mp28 cannot do anything against a thompson m192A1, otherwise I don’t know if it has only happened to me, but in a couple of games with battle index 1/2 I managed to match up against tiers 4 and 5. I really suggest giving the br a review
I’ve played a whole series of games against the Russians and I can only confirm that. There are hardly any players in this faction. I played the last 10 games as a Russian because I wanted to confirm it. There were a maximum of 2-4 players in these games. And yes, the faction is dead. Maybe too many players stayed in Ukraine. 
God only knows.
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game is for hacks aimbot users who can wipe a squad out with a bolt action rifle indestrctable tanks and unlimited atilley and bombers v lvl 1 players the games not for newbies they are leaving by the thousands their not even getting out the spawn area cos players from iii-----iiii are who fire into the spawn area aimbot tanks from grey areas and missuse the game basically today a prvt gets 89 kills lol tel how a private gets artilley then you know the games waste of time keepit I’m out back to cod a real game of skill this is lauabke bolloxs
why woudl we play russians v germans the games is so unbalanced and with cheats from china - iii-players they kill tanks with rifles - for no one know has beaten this people iii -----iiii their able to kill entire sqauds with pistols game was better as it was not filled consoles v PC kinda clashes I nit playing it I hate it the research is crap idea u can not choose a campaign to play its shit so itinto the bin it goes