First cap on Monastery is genuinely obnoxious. Attackers have nowhere to put a rally that isn’t immediately obvious, defenders have 10 different well covered rally spots and can park a tank deep in the corner of the map and just literally spawn camp. Russian AT rifles get pretty underwhelming at dealing with late models of P3/P4. Air power is also painful to use, the RBS-82 do not seem to do anything to vehicles anymore and you either get a choice of 50kg bombs you can use (yeah, they can work, eventually) or 100kg ones that arent that much more effective and force you to use something that flies like a barn.
And the grayzone is often right behind the cap zone, so you cannot even really flank their tanks on foot. Or put cheeky rallies. Or cut off their reinforcements. It’s so scuffed.
You trade worse planes for much better tanks you should know it by now how op are t-50 and t-34, even t28e is superior as anti-infantry vehicle compared to anything that axis have. Maps are bad for both sides not just Soviets. Recently i see yet another switch of population where soviets are way more populated and they try to tryhard with their fedorovs and t-34, how axis supposed to counter them if you are lvl 18 or below? you don’t you can only hop into a plane and pray that t-34 will get stuck and fedorov has no counters same with ppsh-41 so i dunno why you are complaining you are winning most of the matches anyway with those superior tanks and guns. Agree about plane rockets they nerfed them way too much, my flakpanzer can survive multiple rockets 15cm from my vehicle and only mg + bombs can defeat me now.
Except that’s always the case with t-34 spammers especially on map with multiple buildings and a long road (forget the name)
Joined the match 5sec ago: T-34 instantly spawned and killed 5 people. Instant desertion this is waste of time.
Match before that was also spam of T-34 for entire match + Fedorovs
My biggest issue is that I hate playing tanks and Soviet AT rifles are utterly not viable versus later german tank models, when they are hiding behind a building and the grayzone starts before you are out of the open (the first Monastery point is egregious - the panzers sit behind that wooden house on the right, looking from attackers spawn and there is good 100m or more of grayzone protecting them, while they are literally shooting directly into the attacker’s spawn)
With GrB39 at least you get a weapon that has a reasonable chance of frontally penetrating even the T-34 at almost any range - recently I managed to kill one spawn camping us across that cursed lake in Moscow.
Obviously there are player balance issues (there is a distressing amount of german players just outright farming bots in Tunisia and Berlin PepeSpit) and stupid power creep (for the love of god just cut off moscow at T-28 and Pz. IV E) and that makes weird map choices worse
Not my experience at all. In fact I often see the first point be captured before I’m done with my first rally point. The Germans only have a chance to defend the further ones.
