Their weapons are excellent, that’s not the problem with USSR lately. It’s the lack of players and the forced matchmaking which is overflowing with GE players. It feels like playing Japan before the merge. They get outnumbered and up tiered when playing low tiers. Same thing with Allies, but that’s a different story for another post.
Just as an example, I’ve been playing Tier 2 Soviets exclusively a lot lately because it feels like old Enlisted, getting Moscow maps 9 out of 10 times. So when I decided to try grinding my BR III LMG squad, I was immediately sent to BR V Berlin. Of course, I deserted that crap, my dudes have Winchesters ffs. On the next match I get Stalingrad, but I’m fighting against Tiger II H… So I went back to BR 2.
It’s the same old story since the beginning. Matchmaking sucks and teams are very unequal in player numbers. There’s no need to add buffs or doing a nerf this or that. It’s the lack of players.
It’s not the number of players it’s the quality of players. Besides, USSR tends to have one of the more consistent playerbases. I’m sure it’s just a slum. Think something happened for the Axis at the time…either way, Russians don’t need any more of our equipment. They got their own and they can use it
Nah, BR3 Soviets are IMO the only faction that doesn’t feel that much different playing in BR5. Like, 80% of BR5 power.
Meanwhile BR3 Germany is just awful, G41 is extremely bad compared to SVT-38, you have no damn planes to choose from, basically the same is true for USA and Japan. Hell, BR5 USA is a joke to me
“Just get better” this is the band aid sentence for bad mechanics usually, I generally pull 200+ game matches and my next top teammate will have around 30-40 and I lose 80% of my matches at least. I will be the only one killing, capping, building, destroying tanks and rallies. My team generally runs in a straight line gets mopped then repeats until we lose.
“Get better”= manage yourself to carry whole games addapting your strategies to your stupid team and the enemy
obviously there’s exceptions You are not going to win against a stack but You can try to frustate their spam strategies since they have an usual pattern for some reason
200 kills Will never matter if You don’t win You can kill Even 300 but You still loosing in these case instead of focusing on kills focus on the freaking objective no matter what build rallies, barbed wires well placed cannon mg’s or just tryhard the most the objective.
At least in these cases You can survive for more time and in a few times your efforts are compensanted by a win screen+ too much XP
Also if You have a team that runs into a straight line You can build rallies close to the point and then You move backwards to the enemy lines and cause many problems meanwhile your team Will at least try to get in the point if it can’t You can 50% focus on annoy the enemy team backwards and 50% capping if that doesnt works You are fucked XD
Good luck with “managing yourself to carry whole games and adapting your strategy to your stupid team and the enemy” these meaningless phrases won’t do anything for anyone. I’ve put as much effort as I can into doing all of the work to allow my team to win and still lose most of the time. I make sure there are no tanks, rallies to spawn on, no rallies for the enemies and to try and cap. Attacking is impossible even if I hand the point to our team. This last match I just had I ended with 150 kills and made sure they never had rallies and we did and we still lost horribly.’
If I ever get dailies that require winning I HAVE TO skip them for my own sanity or I will die mentally after losing 10 times in a row.
Honestly at this point if I notice 2-3 of their guys are good players I bail because not only is it a guaranteed loss but will be super frustrating too because I no joke NEVER get good players if I do its once ever 40 matches.
I dunno, regularly getting as many kills kind of tips me off you might be doing something that isn’t actually all that valuable when it comes to winning.
I’m slowly getting back to the holy grail of 69.69% win rate but I don’t usually get 200+ games. I mostly gave up using vehicles outside of very tactical short term needs - I’ll take a plane to clear up enemy grayzone enjoyers, any rally points I can blow up or strafe and I have to deliberately crash or the game completely stalls out.
I’ll play rat dota, abuse sneaky APCs, air drop cheeky backline rallies, clean up their rallies with the paras, whatever it takes
When I look through the games I record I often am just busy running trying to put in another cheeky rally off to the side. Don’t get me wrong, I often end up with w tons of kills anyway…but when attacking enemies have infinite tickets - so all that matters is actually controlling the capzone and making sure they cannot just endlessly suicide into you, draining your likited tickets
Seems you are lucky If I go on the point generally I am trying to fight the entire enemy team by myself even if my team was behind me because they either went full stupid and got killed or went into a random direction like bots. I only use planes to clear out strongholds or tanks and I don’t have premium so I either have an apc or a plane and I know planes are more useful. I also didn’t pay for para troopers so idk man.
“might be doing something that isn’t actually all that valuable when it comes to winning.” I do everything for the team to win handing it on a silver platter I will cap the point, place the rallies, kill the tanks, kill the enemy rallies. I have no idea how doing every ounce of work for my teams isn’t valuable XD
Its quite possible we are on different game servers, but in my experience on EU soviet teams are usually good to at least competent
The gear depends on BR
BR2: I’d say both sides are kind of even, both have their weaker and stronger sides but I don’t really have a strong preference if I’m going to be honest
BR3: Russia is a clear pogchamp, hands down. SVT-38 crushes the clunky G41, you already had your best in slot assaulter weapon till AS-44, the PPS-43, available in BR2, you get semiauto sniper rifle, a wide choice of amazing planes, meanwhile outside of 110 G-2 germoney gets utter crap. German tanks are way better IMO (although I don’t actually use tanks)
BR4: the soviets get some tanks (who cares), not much else of note, germany finally gets actual gear
BR5: German gear is mostly best in each category…but Soviet stuff is right after it being 2nd best lol. German tanks are best, but soviet ones are no slouches either. Planes I actually prefer soviet ones. German infantry weapons are better, but not by that much. Just remember to use the AVT-40 in semiauto, it’s utterly useless in full auto. You have a ton of mags for it, it’s accurate under controlled single fire and fast reloading, just racking up kills left and right
huh? In my experience the StG44 performs better both at range and up close. Sure, the AS-44 is perfectly usuable…but not top 1.
RD-44 has so much recoil with that “too fast to single tap too slow to not waste anything past 1st shot” firerate you can barely use it compared to the trommel MGs IMO
Fedorow is kinda fun…I use it for the soviet paras, but it’s a bit of a weird weapon. Very versatile but also kinda not great at anything
Stg44 cannot perform better… as ass44 is in fact a copy paste of the stg44 that devs created JUST because there was no way axis could have something great and not Soviets (even while Fedorov was already here), THEN gave it slightly better statistics (recoil, dispersion, stuff like that). Also have a bayonet which further improves it’s recoil… Which DOES make it top 1. (It’s better to use data mined stats to see)
Fedov… has no recoil for what it is, and has the highest damage of all “assault rifles” (if you count it as such). It’s considered as the best weapon by many players (but I personally hate it).
Who cares about the data mined stats lol. The AS-44 doesn’t feel right, it recoils weirdly and actually has higher recoil, slightly slower reload. StG44 is a laser
Look. It is what it is: AS44 IS BETTER (albeit slightly)
It’s not up to preference here, since stg44 and as44 are basically using the same template, with one of the two having little better performances (as44)
You can’t really argue about data mined stats… they are what they are…
He was just comparing axis weapons with Soviet ones. as SF rifles go, Hei is of course the king.
Fedov. what to do with it. They could probably have riflemen use it… But I wouldn’t like it then either. It’s a weird ww1 gun that we would now see ten times more, and with it’s artificially boosted recoil statistics… I’d probably still use AVT (I know, I know, I didn’t switch back to AVS even if it’s better, I like the iron sight)
