It was normal to have some unbalanced battles , but just after last great update the battles became disgusting.
I use to play USA team (I like to fly with P47) and is incredible, I don’t know if an army of cheaters came to game or the best players decide to play together against my team
In opposite example, today I tried play with German and them I couldn’t find 1 enemy almost at end of game, all my team advanced killing anything, it was the completly opposite, never saw something like this in my 2 years as player.
Maybe had some change in the rules that the game use to join players in a battle, or another decision ocurred, but for sure something happened, or is happening.
you know what happened? lots of veterans went to play japan making US hell to play. US mains went to play other factions. before this germans were rather shitty cause US and soviets had lots of veterans making the games rather difficult for germans. cause US is deserted and lots of veterans play japan, many players have come back to play germans making it easy to play.
so just another playerbase shift. you can expect return to normalcy in few weeks to a month.
Such is the way of this game. And low numbers. Thank you for explaining it, because I get tired of repeating it over and over… Steam release going to be something…
Unfortunately, there will always be a side that has more players in their queue or better players being on that side, and it will always rotate over time as those players move around the nations. Such is the nature of nation-based matchmaking. The only true ways to remove it would be to make all nations play against all nations / maps (IE you would have teammates of other nations) or you start a SBMM (which would remove a lot of the playing with friends of different skill levels, as well as note that the current playerbase size is not sufficient to support a proper one). A third option is to just get rid of the match-finder and go to full server browser with quick play just joining a random active server (Server browser would work as once you do find a good lobby/server you could keep playing within that one).
As such, it really is a rock and a hard place that we find ourselves in.
We also expected that the unified playerbase brought by merge would solve the balance problem, but it did not.
More player not gonna fix anything and only bring more sufferer.
Completely false statement. Even in War Thunder you will have unbalanced teams in terms of skills pretty often. It just depends on RNG there.
Such a change is definitely not worthy and would make me quit the game for good. I actually stopped playing WT for the same reason.
nah. we expected that merge would solve the bot issue which it mostly did and that it would solve weapon balance (which it only partially solved). also player balance is somewhat mitigated outside of content updates where everyone rushes to grind certain weapons/vehicles (like we have now or like we had just after merge).
merge could have never solved player balance cause of its nation vs nation MM and lack of SBMM.
any nation vs any nation gives you RNG teams so it can be unbalanced for any side. nation vs nation is usually unbalanced for only one side. only way to get balanced matches would be any vs any SBMM which would suck for multiple reasons.
I don’t remember, maybe I thought that I was unexperienced, I don’t remember. Even now I waited a bit to make this comment since with time things come more balanced, just made this comment because, like I said, never saw so unbalanced games like this time.
