Not in fact true. They got 52.2% at BR4 and the highest win rate at that BR.
They already have some of the strongest equipment in the game. The PPSh, SVT-38, AVT-40, AVS-36, RD-44, AS-44, Fedorov Avtomat, Fedorov 1912, Winchester M1895, PPS-43, Uragan, M1 Bazooka and that’s not even mentioning their event and premium equipment. There’s no more crutches to give a faction who’s entire playerbase apparently needs to play on godmode to not suck ass.
that is the entire point. the playerbase have a skill issue, therefore they need crutches. if you remove the crutches to a faction that is already underperforming, where does that leaves the faction? i am talking in practical terms. not theoretical and magical improvement of the players, sorry but you cant ask for that. you can take a horse to the water, but you cant take the soviet main to the build rally point icon.
Open for people to improve. If the faction is less of a crutch, see Japan, people with actual skill choose that faction
nope.sadly, the player community dont work that way. see: former campaign system and entire bot faction farms. tunisia, berlin, etc etc. we must learn from history, else we risk repeating it.
The campaign system had problems because at that time splitting the playerbase into that many queues didn’t work. Japan despite it’s bad equipment has the second highest win rate across the board. The problem with the campaign system wasn’t that the players were genuinely ass at the game it was that the game split them into too many queues when it did not have the number of players to support that. Those problems are entirely separate from what this.
It’s like taking a child through the store and they continuously beg for a toy.
In other words, are they officially saying that body armor must remain untouched because many people paid to have that advantage?
They’re not NOT saying that. “It’s complicated.”
Like Japan.
The weakest faction in every aspects, yet having the most hardcore playerbase of fanatics.
There’s the “underdog effect” ppl fail to consider. It’s a very real thing here…
Perhaps Soviets playerbase got a skill issue BECAUSE they only have good stuff and no real flaw. It makes those players complacent, maybe 
So the Japanese samurai swords are no longer visible to you, right?
Ok let’s add it to the equation:
Germany 100% HP
Japan 100% HP + 25% possible sprint boost with swords instead of axes
USA 100% HP
USSR 100% HP + body armor HP
Is this fair?
The currently recognized characteristics
Soviet bulletproof vest
American aircraft
German tanks
Japanese samurai sword
In fact, Germany has a relatively higher winning rate.
Wait I thought we have abandoned asymmetrical balance because “history = bad”?
If Americans are allowed to have “good aircraft” and Germans are allowed to have “good tanks”, we can finally delete ASs 44 and Hyde AR as mirrors for STG, Su-9 1946 as mirror to Me 262 and Hori 2017 as mirror to Pershing?
That’s a lie. Maybe, KTH is better than IS-2, but KV-1 is better than any German tank at 3 BR.
Oh? You want to include tech tree characteristics?
Let’s see how a fair comparison will turn out:
Japan: swords allowing sprint in TT…
But, worst vehicles of all factions, worst air force of all factions, worst small arms of all factions (no assault rifle, no br 4 semi, a br5 smg that should be br 4, etc. they just have type Hei)
Soviets: hp boosting armour cosmetic, best small arms, powerful tanks, powerful air force. Generally undertiered TT things over other factions things of comparable stats. Not a single flaw.
How nicely does it balances out! Japan is op, they got swords!!!
Eheheheh
What’s wrong with spit?
It (the Mk IX event spitfire) breaks its wings randomly when you perform some aerial maneuvers.
It is inconsistent but sometimes the Spitfire will just crash randomly because of this, it is really annoyikg to fly now.
I thought in Aces it was like that too, need historian player to confirm reality…
It was acknowledged as a bug by helpers. But it wasn’t fixed yet.
Probably due to it being possible broken in warthunder as well