War Thunder

Oberon · 09-01-15, 11:30 PM

Can't really disagree with you, the match-maker is very much broken. Before you leave though give the ground forces a bash. I tend to play them most these days because the air forces are very much down to Random Number Jesus. At least when you get blown to hell in a tank you generally have a good idea of why it happened.
Of course, RNG does rear its ugly head from time to time, I've had more than one occasion when I've raised my arms to the sky and asked the Gods why that KV-1B just bounced my 152mm nuclear bomb.
That being said, I'd rather have that than the HP system of WoT, I feel it lends a more authentic...if somewhat frustrating experience.

I wouldn't say Germany is completely shafted at Tier I, the He-112B-0 has a nasty little cannon on it which comes with some special fragmentation round which can really chew out enemies. The Romanian He-112B2/U2 is also nice but is a premium/gift bird...damned if I can remember exactly how I wound up with her. The Bf-110 can surprise people, the cannons are very nasty on it and can rip through some other Tier Is quite happily.
Compare that to the RAF which doesn't get any cannons in Tier I.

Yeah, the Japs get screwed over though...but to be fair, there's not that much you can do to help designs that were already not at the highest end of the tech tree...whenever the Japanese ground forces get introduced the same problem is going to be faced.

This being said, I've taken to taking the Tier I Jap aircraft out on the occasional Realistic battle lately and had some good fun with them. So long as you avoid the Russians you can hold your own providing you can drag the enemy down into a turning battle.

09-01-15, 11:30 PM	#28
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Can't really disagree with you, the match-maker is very much broken. Before you leave though give the ground forces a bash. I tend to play them most these days because the air forces are very much down to Random Number Jesus. At least when you get blown to hell in a tank you generally have a good idea of why it happened. Of course, RNG does rear its ugly head from time to time, I've had more than one occasion when I've raised my arms to the sky and asked the Gods why that KV-1B just bounced my 152mm nuclear bomb. That being said, I'd rather have that than the HP system of WoT, I feel it lends a more authentic...if somewhat frustrating experience. I wouldn't say Germany is completely shafted at Tier I, the He-112B-0 has a nasty little cannon on it which comes with some special fragmentation round which can really chew out enemies. The Romanian He-112B2/U2 is also nice but is a premium/gift bird...damned if I can remember exactly how I wound up with her. The Bf-110 can surprise people, the cannons are very nasty on it and can rip through some other Tier Is quite happily. Compare that to the RAF which doesn't get any cannons in Tier I. Yeah, the Japs get screwed over though...but to be fair, there's not that much you can do to help designs that were already not at the highest end of the tech tree...whenever the Japanese ground forces get introduced the same problem is going to be faced. This being said, I've taken to taking the Tier I Jap aircraft out on the occasional Realistic battle lately and had some good fun with them. So long as you avoid the Russians you can hold your own providing you can drag the enemy down into a turning battle.