What do you guys think about playing Japan? Is it balanced, fun? Any issues or suggestions you have to improve/fix the faction? Thoughts on vehicles or weapons? Just wanna know what people gotta say.
I remember, I used to only play the pacific theatre, Japan before the merge. And while feeling fun, I would constantly be reminded that the US was not balanced at all, it felt like an uphill battle. Recently returning, I’ve been having great fun in battles, it feels quite fun and balanced.
It would be more balanced if the type 100 was uptiered to BR II at the very least. If not, BR III with the other Type 100 and possibly Type 2 as well.
Although the Type 2 has less damage and no bayonet, so maybe it can stay BR II.
It’s extremely unbalanced faction.
Having one of the best BR3 SMGs in BR1 is total joke.
And it just goes to show that Enlisted is on life support. I mean, the devs have been giving zero fcks about this totally artificial issue they themselves created for no good reason. That says it all.
We had 3 smgs that had different playstyles. Now we have 3 smgs with basically identical stats.
Congrats, they definitely improved the game.
What makes the Type 100 Early so OP?
Balance is terrible for Japan.
They are stuck with no attacker aircraft on BR4 or 5, but have to face the faction most notorious for aircraft cycling.
On the otherhand they can never get uptiered when playing BR3 (terrible mistake again).
And the recent buffs without BR changes are just pure pain as US.
I played many BR1 matches with US recently and I can confirm that Type2A and Type 100 (early) needs to be moved to BR3.
its only BR1, but has a fire of 700 rpm and very good damage, very controllable recoil and good reload speed. Its basically identical to the best BR3 SMGs of other nations such as ZK-383, Thompson M1928A1 ect…
The progress plane-wise is a bit strange to me. The Ki-100 in BR3 is loaded with 2 250kg bombs, but two researches more and you are given the Ki-61-II with only 2 100kg bombs. Kinda like the SMGs it really should just be a matter of changing the order of these weapons. Maybe the devs overcompensated in buffing Japan
-Nice bolt actions
-OP BR1 SMG
-All other japanese BR1 - BR3 SMGs are inferior to it
-poor mid BR semi autos
-OP one hit down select fire rifle with 30 round mags
-mostly pathetic tanks
-fantasy BR5 Tank destroyer kinda OP though.
-scoped MGs are an interesting concept.
Ah I see, didn’t know the fire rate was so high. It does seem like a pretty easy fix, like the other stuff, just changing around the progression.
when was the last time you played Ho-Ri?
Its pain to play it with US constantly cycling P-47 and Meteor, especially since its roof armour is so weak they can destroy Ho-Ri by straffing.
it is, but everything seems to take current devs ages.
As Adam said, the game is truely on life support while the actual devs moved on to developing Active Matter.
Loved the bolt action guns, super satisfying imo. But right now I’m only at the Type Hei and, well I just hope the semi-automatics improve from here.
Never even bothered researching tanks lol, just stuck to the planes.
Also never really went down the Anti-tank line for research, stuck to everything else.
Scoped MGs are too hard for me to play lmao, so I’m glad there isn’t much.
Plane defense doesn’t matter in my mind
I’m a big fan of playing with Japan, way back before the merge since they first released the Pacific. Back then when no one would touch that faction with a ten foot pole, I grinded the hell out of it.
For me personally. Despite all the new stuff they’ve added. I have to say that Japan’s sweet spot is BR II or BR III. Anything higher than that is goofy-land fantasy and breaks all immersion for me.
Paired with the fact that Pacific maps were never planned to be played with anything higher than BR III. As a single little island on Gavutu gets wiped out with two tank shells or a plane bomb/rocket ordinance. So yeah, Japan is nice. But high BR Japan is insanity unless you know you’re clearly on the winning side. Otherwise is a torture enduring plane after plane, Pershing after Pershing.
Japan is fun.
But it lacks good tanks and more importantly bombers…
It’s not normal that fighters do better as CAS than bombers…
either you missed the type4 or well i like to think the former rather than the latter you think the type is bad
I certainly did the same with the Pacific Theatre
I’m currently grinding Japan at BRIII right now, and to me it is great fun. Just hope that it stays relatively fine when I get towards the end of the tree. Although, after reading this, I am a bit worried. Japan though as always been my go to nation in the game.
Yeah, it seems to make a lot of the air fighting super unbalanced. The Japanese will always win in a vacuum. by simply being able to do both CAS and dog-fighting while Allied planes can only ever do 1 at a time.
Its a shame that Japan doesn’t have a BR4 rifle, having the Type 4 at BR3 while being the second last rifle kinda sucks imo. Considering how small the Japanese tech tree is, I can’t be mad at saying that the Type 4 isn’t mid BR considering how hard you’d have to grind to get it. It’s in late Tier 4.
Balanced? No, before they overly buffed the BR1 Type 100 smg I won almost 80% with lower level Japanese, and I haven’t lost since. In fact, I haven’t even played a close game in the 10 or 12 games I’ve played Japanese since. So, unless the Allies get a super level one smg buff as well, or the Type 100 gets moved to level two, the Allies will be very little competition at level one. 