I run into the same shit with my BRII lineup, you can still cycle cas with virtually the same payload as BRV, it just takes longer to rearm, or not if you just suicide cycle. Soviets has squad wiping auto weapons from BRII upwards, and everyone has them at III, MP40 etc.
Greyzone tanks are just as oppressively in low tier, hell stuff like the PzIII N with the insane reload short 75mm is probably more punishing to infrantry than a king tiger. And again for greyzone bombs from a plane don’t really discriminate between tiers.
The only difference in higher BRs is all your troops have access to good automatic weapons rather than just MG and assaulters and honestly that levels the playing field if anything and makes more squads competitive. Having an engineer squad with FG2’s vs SMG spam in either bracket is sure a whole hell of a lot better than fighting SMG and HMGs with bolt action or godawful early semis.
basically this
although BR5 matches are more likely to have more experienced players with more squads/gear/slots, so the fighting is more intense IMO
(although I’ve been stuck in matchmaker shadow realm, forever sent to BR2 germany lol)
My fun in Br 5, is THANKS to cas and tank spam. Because I like to play fighters.
As for tanks themselves, I loved measuring myself to those dreaded KT(H) yesterday with Is2 1944, an winning (smarts win the day… and good reverse speed plus cover )
I’d say that less clutter is more important than bigger maps.
Due to trees and bomb craters, offroad driving is very annoying/inefficient. And roads often are full of random debrees that also make it hard to manouver (like the search lights / generators we all know and love).
Clutter has its place in certain terrain, whereas the lack of larger operational area detracts from the basic dynamic function of the large amount of personnel carriers just introduced.
Yeah, but larger maps won’t solve anything is they consist mostly of bomb craters and tank traps.
Ppl: want larger maps to flank with vehicles
Devs: release a big map with multiple layers of dragon teeth across it and claim they listen to the feedback
Don’t even suggest the Sigfried line lol. That moscow mist would really change the ardennes maps. I’m fine in BR 4-5 w/ BR3 gear, I think the matchmaker is waiting for more players before it can do a proper separation of ratings. Players should check the pick random side button its rather interesting.
Literally just got another match where I rolled BR3 russians for the team that already would win easily
The german team was basically just new players and they got completely destroyed by SVT-38/PPS-43 mix I had
I also was queueing as BR2 germany. It might have been a decent match if it put me on the german team
there is no reason to matchmaking
it just shoves people into matches basically at random
I have unethical amounts of impact grenades, but I only use them when I get heavily uptiered playing BR3 or my enemies are tryhards in deathstack, those deserve to get impacted.
Welcome to high pressure mode
If you can’t fight any of the above
I suggest you go back and play BF5
There may be many illegal players
But there must be a balance you like
Incidentally
I enjoy using various explosives and powerful aircraft to beat those old antiques who don’t know how to adapt until they can’t take care of themselves.
At the same time, I am very willing to spend money on this game to improve this enjoyment.