The west allies and german factions have two factions to fight, each.
The soviet and japanese factions only fight one faction at all.
The west allies and germans needs double the player count in order to have a healthy player count for battles as their players are divided between fighting their respective exclusive counterparts and each other.
You’d need 2:1 ratio for both the germans and west allies to have matches with relatively equal player count. For example, in a 300 player population for a given BR bracket, you’d need:
50 soviet players
50 japanese players
100 german players
100 allied players
Faction popularity, at the present moment, is essentially dictated by the whims of (usually the more experienced part of) the playerbase, along with whatever event gives people a shiny new toy for people to experiment with.
Whether the measures involve exp bonuses for queuing as an unpopular faction, or whichever side is losing more, I hope the measures are updated live to reflect the current status of the matchmaker.
The current matchmaker is easy to exploit, allowing anyone familiar with the trend to just “ride the wave” of popularity and score easy wins as they fight a predominantly bot-occupied faction.
Silver bonus for using “Join any team” is in the works, though it’s not in the “almost completed” section unfortunately. I know they don’t want to make silver gains too easy so players will buy silver, but I had hoped they would recognize the utility of such a change as being for the overall health of the game in regards to team stacking and not just a means to get a little more silver.
A very necessary measure to introduce, I am hoping this is accomplished with the “join any team” bonus that is planned on the roadmap. This essentially is a “join the losing team” button, as I am sure you are more likely to be placed in an underpopulated faction. I am just hoping they aren’t stingy and render the exp or silver bonus ineffective in achieving the goal by making it too low.
welp as you say the popular faction is dictated by the faction that receive the shinies toys and cuz german tech tree is already bloated theyre doomed to receive only 1 thing per big update wich is not even relevant, so unless japan get something bloated this trend is gonna keep going to be a thing even with join any faction buff cuz no one wanna play the side that gets always stomp.so the true way of permanently fixing this problem is to remove faction matches but yeah i dont think that idea is any popular
I played Japan today and lost most of the match (my winrate is 10%) and to accompany it 4-5 teamates quit early on. Not to blame them I could do better… but I’m also top of the leaderboard… it just sucks.
Germans and Russians seem to dominate most from my perspective. I have a 74% w/l with the Germans and my Russian w/l % just went up to 77%, although this past game was a German butt pasting over my Russian squad. My US % is 53%, but that is up from 47% before the last ranking reset. I have only played 11 games with the Japanese and 45% there. Of course my US squad has been going for two years, German one and Russian only about a month or two. My Germans have dropped from almost 82% down to the 74% since the last rank reset. So, for me I guess it is figuring out which country is trendy at the moment, although if I had my choice I would strictly play US, mostly because I have the chance to battle two countries in Japan and Germany and I served for a time in the USAF, so I might be a little country bias…
Why is DF afraid to improve team balance and spread the silver around?
If I were a newbie, I’d be killed by a bunch of artillery and SMG spam in the first 15 seconds of the game, and if I had a series of matches where the entire base was finished in 8 minutes…
I am sure I would not buy a premium squad or even gold, I would think “hey, what the hell is this crap” and uninstall the game.
Join any tean is fine then you play against veterans who stomp players as they’ll clanned up so u get 30 kills v 190 so nah the games dying any way to many people who loved it left to play other games cos they sick of the hackers n cheats who managed to make the game so unbalanced its pointless playing unless u =pay$$$$ so its never gonna be balanced I can’t afford to pay $40 for a squad or weapons 5 games today v clans players who wiped you off the map as their have far better 2 weapons - 100m kills on tanks tigers v br 1 tanks br 2 go an make br 4- play 5 br 1-3 shouldn’t have to play 4 its dumb
because they want you spending $5000 to keep up with players who can afford premuim stuff the idea of the came from war thunder tank same thing you have basic sherman v king tigers laughable i deleted it in a week the grapics are fab - but here tanks are ok until you get a nob who can out run the machine gun on it n climb on it cos no one supports the tanks with infantry to many are not co op inhthe game to help any one its fu every man for him self newbies arent helped by any one they dont stay long 5 Games their out deleting the game and no one sayas a aord ina game apart from co ords they shell their own men half thetime
I can play all levels, but prefer levels 1-3. When I play my Germans now I usually lose, and when I play Russians now I usually win, same with the US. I do lose on occasion to the Germans with both the US and Russians, but still win the majority of them. NOTE…I live in the Philippines and have noticed that I win far more with the US after midnight then I do if I play before. I am exactly 12 hours a head of US East coast time, so maybe that makes a difference as to who else is playing. I usually choose North American or ANY when it comes to servers as well.
Id say its the exact thing that happens currently, unless you play the current pamper faction.
How ever, adding “join any team” with some kind of bonus doesnt harm the game in anyway.
Regardless I dont exactly think it will have a significant impact to the game either, theres atleast a minimal chance that those stacks get even remotely more evenly distributed.
I dont recall meeting a single cheater in the game in sense of actual cheats.
What comes to advantages of premium & extra slots, only game breaking issue I can think of it is the kamikaze spam of planes.
Sure, having option to have technically any squad available to you ingame is as well significant advantage.
But strictly speaking of infantry combat I dont really consider it as game breaking.
Unlike the above mentioned kamikaze sht, that 9/10 times results just quitting the game on my behalf.
I’m hoping it’s not an event instead it would be a full front. If they don’t go that route that’s a huge missed opportunity. It wasn’t just in 1945 that they fought with each other, they also did it a few times early war. I can’t really count the Chinese and Soviets versus Japanese as part of that because they don’t want any sort of Chinese things within this game.
theirs something i dont under stand i sit back to use the artillery on a base were attacking I can see firefights n unleash it on the base the teammates are trying to capture I get 4 kills with my artillery strike they do the same thing on our team and kill 19
a top player on our team uses artillery he’s got 11 kills I hit the area just behind the base where their spawning I give them2-4 secs to clear the spawn I score 2 kills what the hell going on they rigging the game for their fav team to win or player something wrong
maybe down to BR the japs have no fixed gun postios no mg points at all unlike the Germans n russians ie Normandy and Moscow the Japanese are verry good at times or terrible as they have no defensive gun pstions whichis lauhable as the us fought for ever inch of groudn under mrtar mg and artilley postions which dont exsit in the japanse maps did u forget to add them
That’s the risk you take when selecting Join Any. It’s a gamble.
I’m playing exclusively as a BR3 Join Any (JPN BR2) and the variety is refreshing, albeit I am admittedly leaving a few more matches than I’m used to. High BR weapons are literally cancer on this game but that’s a whole 'nother conversation.
