I would agree with this. I used to play a lot of level two Allies, and no one builds rallies, no one defends and when a cap point is taken, instead of retreating to defend the next cap point, they stay at the old cap point looking for kills until half the next cap point is taken. I got so sick of being the only one trying to capture or defend I just gave up playing level two Allies.
I play more level three allies, and in the past when I did not get level five Japs, my side won probably 60% of the time, and in the past few weeks I think I have won 18 out of 23 playing level three Allies. However, that will change when factions get new toys.
I play a lot of level two Germans as well, and usually win the majority but the past few weeks I have maybe been 50/50 or less, and have won with level two Soviets probably 70% of the time this past week, maybe because of the new smg and semi auto they got in level two.
For real though, I just think more vets and experienced players gravitate to Japan for some reason, more often than not they’ll build rallies and put up APCs. Plus they’ve got some decent infantry kits available to them at most BRs.
From what ive witnessed is the lack of knowledge from the US side or unwilling to play objectives. now when you have US doing this against Germany and have one or 2 Good vet players they can carry the team by building rallys and supporting attacks on objective and have a chance to win. but compared this to japan and your coming across a full team of dedicated player who actively build rallys and aggresively defend /attack and pull of big flanking attacks and wipe out your only teams rally you dont stand a chance even with 2 vets trying there best.
I’ve been in games where you’ll have 2 mortars way back some squads of rifle men trying to snipe very far away from cap zones and just the one rally i built what got knocked out and the Japanese team in the capture zone but no urgency from the US players to get there to help out. Its half not knowing how to win and half people just playing for themselves and just wanting to sit back and get kills likes its a solo game. You cannot mess around when playing against the Japanese faction if you want to win as there very quick on objectives once one is captured theirs likely 2 squads already in position to attack the next point.
Also the best ones i have seen is 3 squads all laid prone right next to the defense circle but not inside it and we lost the point. I still have fun but as i play random faction you do notice a remarkable difference when playing Japan , Germany and Soviets compared to US with skill.
Space marine seed was based on WW2 Japanese soldiers DNA. They could easily throw their Trucks at the enemy with their bare hands, but decided to play fair with Americans.
Ho-I is fully playable at BR2 and can work at BR3 with it’s heat rounds. Ho-ri is fine only in matches without plane fanatics. Shame about the rest, Chi-to should be a BR3 tank and Chi-nu is weaker than Ho-I.
Map design doesn’t really favour tank gameplay unless you have rare high ground on a hill. There are too many trenches, too many wooden/concrete buildings, too many trees so can’t see much. It’s kinda like Stalingrad/Berlin but at least with those two you have clear lanes where enemies will come but Pacific and Burma are too open with so many alternative paths to the objective. New Seelow nerfed tanks by a ton by giving a lot of cover to the infantry you can easily sneak on Tigers and nuke them with your panzerfausts.
I am playing br 2 japan since the “join any” implemented in the game, and I can say that low br japan is the most intelligent and “play for the win” type guys I found in the game. compared to other low br factions. most importantly they either loves doing obj or building rallies which is good whatever they decide to do each match lol
Honestly yeah the BR1 options in particular can be very hit or miss. Though the Ka-Mi with its 3 machine guns and newly added HE shells aren’t too terrible for dealing with infantry from a distance so long as you make sure your flank is covered from enemy tanks. Ho-I is solid though, HEAT shells made it bit of a beast.
Speaking of tanks I’d honestly say they should put the Na-To in BR2 or even BR1 that thing is painfully slow, silhouette is tall as hell, armour is paper thin, a Boys-AT rifle could delete it. The crew is laughably exposed, the range of motion of the main gun sucks, no machine gun and the HE shells for the main gun is very lackluster and you only get like 6 of them.
