And know the maps.
This will sound crazy , but I don’t think I’ve ever been squad wiped by an MG42 on DDay as the Allies.
I streamed a lot of my US games on Normandy, and if you watch , you’ll see I stayed out of the Killbox on every advance. Playing the Maps as Axis for a while taught me so much, but I had to train my mentality as an attacker and not a defender. It got even better once Smoke Arty was brought to all campaigns.
Its hilariously funny to see Radio squads in the back hogging all the strikes to kill a few soldiers or sometimes many but refuse 100000% to drop a curtain of smoke and help an advance.
I have won so many games because of smoke.
But you have to learn that, and people think kills are the be all end all when in fact they end up wasting a squad slot, and contributing less to the team.
Iirc the player distribution in Normandy ws actually fine after the Tiger came.
But I guess most players dont like facing other players which is why campaigns are mostly bot farming for one side.
Heck, maybe thats why some people dont wanna have better bots.
Eh, the distribution was Allied skewed until the Panther, then it became heavily Axis skewed until the M1919A6, now it has evened out a bit, but both sides still have their fair share of whiners who don’t understand why the other side is so much better at doing the one thing they want to be good at doing. Just think of it this way: the German main will defend to the death why the Tiger I is ok, but the P-47 is OP, and the Allied main will argue the opposite to his dying breath.
Its just my experience. The sole map where my Allied team always sucked against Axis during Panther-only time was Ver-Sur.
Road to meme. At least both sides sucks equally here.
Eh, they used to stomp a lot in Ruins and D-day as well, but Ver-Sur-Mer was always the worst (it was already a bad map before the Panther was added).
Yeah, these days, both sides just tend to suck, and whichever side has the most competent player ends up winning (which just leads to more people saying X is op).
Sniff Remember the time, where both sides hated nuke bombs (and those nasty streamers during the kill event. Normandy was unplayble except for fighter grinding)
My bad. I remembered my first time when I plaed on this map with the Firefly and had funny pin-pong matches with Panther. But actually introduction was between Panther and P-47 update.