Against my better judgement and to the detriment of my own mental health, I finally finished the Berlin allied campaign. I switched over to axis and have so far found that it’s just as unenjoyable on that side as well…
As I experienced playing as soviets: I primarily find myself on a completely stacked axis team with an endless chain of tiger 2s mindlessly blasting away with narry a worry at the army of bots and unfortunate players on the Soviet team.
It’s a sprint just to get to the point before it’s been captured and everyone rushes to the next point without drawing a breath. I find myself rooting for enemy aircraft and tanks to take on the tigers, but rarely do I see any success on their side.
That’s all I’ve got to say: Berlin isn’t fun for anybody but the apparently large crowd of people who play this game solely to sit and giggle at the dozens of Soviet bots they can kill with each 88mm shell they launch from the safety of their metal bunkers. I don’t understand how that doesn’t get dull, but here we are.
I’m apparently too much of a masochist that I wont quit until I max every campaign… Only one level to go. Once that’s done I’ll be done with Berlin for a long while.
I’d rather play as a Lone Fighter against ridiculous odds in some form of PvE horde defense/assault mode than play with seriously stacked teams. They literally make me tired and nearly fall asleep like late-game Warframe does.
Play full acc Stalingrad with squad of 1-2, you maybe get some relaxing. Overall German metal carriers often overpowered, which should be fixed with better maps, improving damage model and introducing new allied catbusters like Jackson
As someone also play both sides, i didnt find berlin fun at all for few reason
Berlin supposed to be Dense Urban Warfare not this open field battle, this is not war thunder, or whatever, Tank and plane play big role, but they have hard time to bomb or even support and infanty play huge role
Axis player keep complaining about soviet weapon way too overpowered, in reality the player is the one who op, i use ppd40, ppsh41, even federov they perform same imo, when somehow i see people fire FG42 from 100m full auto, can hit everyone and funny fact it has high recoil, more recoil than avs 36.
they also complain IS2 is op, but they forget that KT H more op, IS2 indeed capable pen KT H front armor but it has slow reload speed and in mean time, KT H can fire 2-3 bullets to you
i also german main but i dont feel enjoyment slaughter full bot team, thats why i play soviet and see what happened. i also half way in soviet tree. Maybe im biased but it is what it is, even merge wont fix the problem.
the only reason why i love berlin, it’s because of the volkssturms units, and above all, somewhat the maps.
but… not really a " playground " campaign.
that’s… quite the committment.
i was young and fool once, and had the same goals
until i just… couldn’t.
i didn’t maxed allied moscow ( didn’t even touched them ), allied tunisia ( just grinded enough to get majority of british equipment. i stopped at the crusader and i will not grind the entirety of axis either. as soon i get the bike, i’ll skidaddle ), and didn’t finished japan because i’m waiting for the merge.
( which, i know it’s technically unnecessary, but i don’t like playing rofl stomp campaigns.
( despite me grinding tunisia and berlin allies right now… because i want the bike, and the ppsh41. but it ain’t no fun at all, let me tell ya )
all i have " on my back " is the memories and friends made along Stalingrad, Normandy, Pacific Allies ( during the dark times but those johnsons were too much to avoid ) somewhat moscow axis and tunisia allies.
Even the worst times of Normandy Allies wasn’t this bad compared to Berlin now considering there’s still dedicated players for both sides. Pacific maybe on par but both sides have a dedicated playerbase so was Moscow but the campaign that I could think of with a similar situation to current Berlin is Tunisia that’s mostly an Allied bot farm to the point that some players just desert when facing a competent Axis team there.
Even the early days of Berlin wasn’t a one sided stomp like some German players complained but still playable for both sides despite the faction trends at the time. It was the announcement of the merge that gave people some pressure to grind Germany’s best stuff in Berlin before the merge to the point that Berlin is just lopsided as more people want the new and shiny King Tiger before merge.
There were a lot of versions of Jack, including closed top, due to urgent production and literally putting it on everything that can drive and hold da 90mm stick. And stick is so good it could crack panther/jpanther UFP up to 1 km with T33 round. I really want to see axis rreeaction on this in game
I maxed Berlin Axis as my first campaign before MG15 and 8cm mortar exist, is a sweat fest just like the first day IS2 1944 and KT dropped
I like Berlin because of the map and CQC fight, is very automatic meta and that’s the fun of it if you play aggressively, tanks can be fun but they can’t be always viable for the cap, also Panzerfaust exist so they are not that big of a deal unlike other campaign
Currently the soviet just refuse to play Berlin despite the Devs gave them more BS weapons and a better IS2, guess Moscow is lot easier since the Axis can’t even fight back with all the disadvantages, just like Tunisia
Berlin used to be more balanced in terms of playerbase prior to the announcement of the merge where German players from various campaigns especially Normandy migrated to Berlin to get the faction’s best stuff as quickly as possible before the merge meanwhile Soviet has plenty of alternatives where they can get their some of their best stuff in Moscow and Stalingrad instead of torturing themselves to get the same guns in Berlin.
The only difference between those 2 campaigns and Berlin for Soviets are some few late war guns like PPS-43, DPM, RD-44 and AS-44 along with vehicles like T-34-85 with ZiS-S-53 that can be unlocked early and the IS-2 which is not a direct upgrade to the T-34-85 where its only supplemental unlike Germany from Panther to Tiger E to King Tigers besides Germany has more guns like FG 42 II for riflemen that’s not available in Normandy.
all IS series are trash in Berlin maps, inferior to T-34 in terms of fire rate which is critical. Also those “bs weebpons” except fedorov still don’t counter fg-42-2 and lots of mgs. Close contact and hugs with your lovely brrrr spam is fun and all but it’s not really what Berlin is. Hello to pseudozeelow and all those trashstrasse with opened cap points, being spammed by arty/bombs/etc
IS-2 not really trash but more like situational like some things the T-34-85 can do but IS-2 cannot like T-34-85 can do more damage than IS-2 in a few shots while IS-2 can do one big damage with a well landed HE shot.
Add the problem with the poorly designed small open cap points like the ones on the middle of the street that’s vulnerable to everything including bombs, mortars, arty and tanks besides artificially nerfed ticket bonus, cap times and ticket bleed.
but those johnsons were too much to avoid ) somewhat moscow axis and tunisia allies.