Bullshit, the reason why players prefer to play Japanese is that there are few new American weapons, and all of them are old weapons. Players prefer to play new weapons instead of worshipping something
Go somewhere else COSPLAY your NKVD
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Wtf is even that answer?
It’s hillarious that US have more reinforcements per cap, faster cap of point and better weapons. Its not fucking funny ngl, lol
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Just because there were too many Japanese players in the early days, the developers gave the US military an overwhelming advantage to crush and drive away all the players
Ha ha, a little black humor
Goddamit, i thought devs would realise that balance small (in first days) playerbase of side with better weapons, by making cap faster + more reinforcements – is stupid. We dont even have a chance against US, only make groups lol
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Rockets?
Ach go to hell with this crap. Nobody believes this crap except you.
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not cbt no opinion
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We can argue that most of us went Japanese right away.
Not because it’s Japan. But because it’s a brand new faction with unique toys right away.
Even tho, on a limb, lots of content on us is new too.
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Thats makes more sense.
But this weird Axis-super-weapon-argument or “Faction-fetishism” is crap, especially when are talking about Japan.
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Also the startling difference between US and Japanese equipment is outright annoying. US SMGs are infinitely better, do more damage, and you can practically snipe with them. The M55 Reising is better than basically every Japanese SMG (And I think the recoil on it is bug because it has almost none yet the stats say it has a lot of recoil)
They get the BAR at the same level as the completely worthless Type 11.
The Type Hei is unlocked at the same level as the M1 Garand, and the Type Hei is also borderline worthless.
The American vehicles are better, with the M13 being bullet proof frontally, having insane firepower, and being able to pen every Japanese vehicle frontally.
Literally the ONLY weapons Japan gets that are better or equivalent to anything the allies get are bolt actions and the Type 97 AT rifle.
And this isn’t because Japan made terrible things, but because they balance things in such an annoying arbitrary fashion with stupid dispersion and reducing bullet damage. Hurr durr smol boolet do less damug. Look at the WEAKEST US SMG and compare it to the strongest Japanese SMG. It’s not even fair.
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To my surprise, American troops in the Pacific Campaign had BAR earlier than those in the Normandy Campaign
The US forces in 1942 were better equipped than those in 1944
we don’t want super weapons, we want balance
even if japanese weapons are worse, they had the gurilla tactics for their defense while we have none of that, only the bad weapons along with a US being capable of capturing a point in a few seconds and receive a lot of reinforcements while we take longer and get less
The Japanese do not even carry coaxial machine guns on their almost fictional tanks, which have not experienced their last real battle.
Tunisia was still better off and had German troops in its ranks who possessed easy-to-use and powerful weapons.
How shall we balance it? Shall we send out a destroyer or a battleship?
Been playing a lot of IJA, to be completely honest I still have a high winrate (80%), but most of it comes from the earlier days where everyone is trying out the japanese. Now its just frustrating, you can still win some of the defensive matchups, but the offsensive ones are just impossible. As I see it they have to do at least one of the following things.
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either buff the japanese tanks or nerf M13, while not unkillable all japanese tanks(except the premium one) is cannon fodder for this guy, the ap shell fuse dont even trigger on it. Also, I understand that it can shoot through walls, but simply letting it spray the defense objective and killing all defenders inside is not quite fair.
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either buff the jap reinforcement rate or nerf the american one. I just dont get how the US have a manpower advantage while also having overall better weapons.
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give the IJA a better semi-auto option, type 38 and type 1 have shit sights, and type 99 shots too slowly. Type Hei is basically garbage and Otsu is unlocked too late.
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it would also be nice if IJA can get a comparable smg to the thompson, right now japan smgs lack both hit power and fire rate, non of them stand up to the american counter part. I understand IJA having worse weapons, but when the US premium squad have Thompson the IJA is just disadvantaged in everyway possible.
To sum it up, I’d say stay away from IJA for now until futher balancing.
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The Otsu is worse than the Type Hei. The Otsu is based off of the ZH-29, and the ZH-29 in Tunisia/Stalingrad not only does more damage, has 10 rounds instead of 5, has better sights, is more controllable, and appears to have less dispersion. It also reloads faster.
The Japanese equipment is an insult. They don’t even get a unique Banzai charge what with the devs giving ‘heroic charge’ to everyone for some stupid reason. Not that the charge is even useful with the sprint cooldown on melee+AI insta-sniping you. Nor your squad charging with you.