Japan tech tree still has many holes. The new tank and mg help, but I was hoping more would be added this update. The new map is fun, but I tend to disappoint the emperor when the only AT weapon available is BR 2 and I have to aim at jumbos and pershings
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This is your perception, not reality.
Until Burma came out, I played “Play Any Army” for like 3 months straight. My Japanese research tree got completed in that time. I play all the factions. I used to main Allies, but now that’s about 10% of my play.
The OP in another thread is complaining about the fact that Japan is getting BR2 Thompsons but Americans don’t get them at BR2 - which is screwy.
I’ll add to that and it’s screwy that Russians get American halftracks, but the Allies have to make do with a stupid truck that rolls down hills.
Japan has crappy tanks, but that’s basically historical accuracy (bwahaha, but whatever).
As Valkay mentioned - everyone suffers, so no one does. Each side has weaknesses and strengths in different areas, but, IMO, giving enemy factions YOUR OWN GUNS that you don’t get to play with, is crazy/stupid. It’s not like Japan doesn’t have excellent submachine guns in their own research tree at BR2.
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Actually, that’s not true. Not saying yay or nay about the “quality of the players” - however, there ARE other factors than just equipment and player quality - as in, match making, lopsided maps, glitchy things happening like weird gray zones, certain events drive people to different factions, etc, etc.
US suffers 
nothing more can surprise me since ru forum says that URRS is the worst faction
same me
95% throttle is more than enough for all jap planes.
I have to point out that before the US got miracle weapons like T20 and M26
The US team members were famous for their high quality. They only had M2 carbines at that time, which could not compete with FG42-2, and Thompson (drum) was a disaster
But they defeated the German army again and again (Japan only had BR4 at that time)
This is a counter-intuitive situation. When a faction gets too many “miracle weapons”, it will not make it better. On the contrary, they will attract a large number of low-quality players to play, thereby diluting the role of the advantaged players in the game
But most of the intuition is still: I can’t win because my weapons are not strong enough
The US military has become a negative chain reaction. The more powerful weapons DF gives them, the more low-quality players will play, and then there will be fewer high-quality teammates in each game
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exactly
how long ago was this?
After the merger
At that time, the “unique” balance was still working.
except the playerbase for all side never wanted unique balancing
first month after merge germans were destroying US. i remember having over 95% WR at that time with germans as solo player. month after merge US had surge in popularity and they had win streak(but nowhere near german dominance just after merge) until japan update with type hei after which japan totally destroyed US until t20 update where US had brief surge in popularity.
so you are both right and wrong at the same time. certainly US had dominance period and it had nothing to do with equipment, but with faction trend.
tbh, as someone who’s been playing a lot of USA recently, I can confidently say that we don’t suffer from bad equipment or vehicle deficiencies. It’s the sheer incompetency of my teammates. Most of the time I’m expected to hard carry them which I simply don’t have the ability to do.
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yep
We still get fucked over. In terms of playerbase, no one bothers with us and you would think that US centric updates would help with that but no, I’m still stuck with fresh installs who run off the second someone shoots at them.
well this is the case for most of my teams regardless of nation/BR(well with exception of japan BR5). have to do suicide strategies to hunt down enemy rally points after building mine just for my team to have a chance to cap. i stopped using my vehicles in most of my games cause that would mean that nobody is building rally points.
sometimes when i have competent teammates i can derp around, but it is rare.
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offf
ouch
for some reason i notice it the most with germany…it also always happens in every fucking f2p game too