Do not play unless you want to stomp as the Russian team.

The Russian team in the game, have some incredibly powerful vehicles, with each part of the game having something better than everyone else.

During the starting tiers you will fight KV-1's that for new players will be impossible to fight and destroy, having small weak spots that are hard to shoot while having a gun that is powerful enough to knock you out easily. It takes an experienced player to get used to these vehicles and know where to shoot them, before they shoot you; because if they shoot you first it will often one shot you. Shooting them in anywhere but the weak spots will just cause your round to bounce, meaning an easy kill on you.

In the mid tiers, you will fight things such asT34-85's IS-2's, and IS-3's - The T34's are the same problem as the KV-1's, where you have to aim for specific weak spots. They have better guns than the KV-1's, but are much much faster and often have a front plate that will troll and randomly delete your rounds while once again having a gun that will one tap you. IS-2's are easier to destroy, but have a cannon that is FAR better than anything else at the BR as well as incredibly good armour to boot. you will find your rounds doing nothing to them, while they will destroy you with one hit. The IS-3 on the other hand, is a whole different ball game. unless you are a veteran player, it is near impossible to destroy and a pure monster on the battlefield, and completely unbalanced. It takes near no skill to play and can delete players easily with the only thing being able to effectively destroy it easily is bombs.

At the high tiers and end game you will fight T-80's, and BMP-2's etc. - The BMP-2m is one of the only IFV's in the game that can fire tandem missiles while at full speed, every other nation has to stop to fire their missiles meaning that it can shoot you while at full speed still blowing you up with ease. The T-80's are faster, better armoured, and have an amazing gun meaning they can point and click on you to destroy you without really aiming, where you actually have to aim and even then will likely do no damage to them. They get ERA that completely eats your rounds, which no other nation in the game gets, and at BR 10.0 they get the only premium vehicle in the game that can be used effectively as an SPAA, and a tank destroyer, the 2S38. While Sweden, the closest comparable vehicle being the Strf-9040c is a higher BR and has less pen with a limited ammo capacity even though it is almost worse in every way, its only better factor is that it has a radar. The T-80 BVM is the strongest MBT at top tier BY FAR, due to its speed and armour that just negates anything you throw at it, including the near 700mm of penetration from a Leopard 2a6 and will often survive multiple bombs or hellfire missiles where other nations vehicles just wont, and often shots through its ammo rack will just delete rounds, allowing it to destroy you during your reload.

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The game hasn't improved much. Since my last review, Russia gained the T-90m, adding a new mechanic to the game; Spawl liners. This would have been a great addition, had it not been ONLY the T-90m that got one. After player feedback and outrage, Gaijin eventually added spawl liners to other vehicles in the game that wern't Russian, but it took the players complains and mass outrage for them to actually give them to other vehicles.

Russia still have the best SPAA in the game, with the Pantsir S1 out ranging every other SPAA in the game while also having a "predictive tracking" mode, just to make it better, while NATO SPAA missiles tend to lack range and manoeuvrability in some cases making them incredibly situational and hard or impossible to use. Meanwhile, Russia have also been given multiple CAS dominating aircraft to fight along side the Pantsir such as the SU-25's that can lock and fire missiles from 25-40km away, past the range of ANY SPAA in the game, including the Pantsir, while the A-10's (and other NATO CAS aircraft) in the game refuse to track targets from anywhere outside of 15-20km, well within the range of SPAA meaning they are easily shot down. NATO aircraft spawn within range of the Pantsir, meaning they can be destroyed near instantly upon spawning, meaning that you cant even use aircraft to take down the SU-25's outside of your teams SPAA range, which leads to them dominating the ground matches.

Combining the unbalanced CAS, with the unbalanced SPAA, and the unbalanced MBT's that seem to sponge shots to their upper front plates, it makes the Russian team at top tier incredibly powerful and bias.

Reporting problems on the forums is also a no go zone, as in the past the devs have been known to silence people, or shadow ban them from the forums when players make fair and key observations that would disrupt the overwhelming bias towards the Russian team.

They continuously refuse to listen to players where balance is required and providing real life examples to things in the game that are broken is often not enough, specially when it comes to Russian vehicles - for example, there are many pictures from a certain conflict showing T-72's and T-80's destroyed by APFSDS round to the upper front plate, but providing these pictures to Gaijin as many have done before, proves no change and they will often say that the evidence isn't enough to promote a change onto the vehicle. Meanwhile, to nerf a NATO vehicle all you need is a article from a magazine or something, word of mouth that says something is worse than it is in the game, and they will nerf it.

To buff a Russian vehicle it is much the same; a sales brochure or an article would be enough for them to implement a buff onto them, but for a NATO vehicle you would require a 3000 word essay, multiple sources and even then they may mark it as "not a bug" and push it away regardless of the evidence provided. Multiple times players have bug reported the Stormer HMV in the game, saying that its missiles phase through vehicles, but no fix has been implemented as of yet. Multiple times people have bug reported the KA-50 being able to fly flawlessly without a tail, and yet it continues to do so without issue. The devs are bias towards the Russian team in the background, and the more and more i play the game, the more and more obvious it is.

This game is amazing, but it looks like it is doomed to fail by a dev team who do not listen to anyone, and pump out $70 packs like they are hot candy, breaking the balance of the game each time they do it. A playerbase that is more toxic than Rust telling people to do awful things in the chat, disregarding the fact its a PG-13 game, and having more patriotic players willing to sacrifice balance to make their own nation better than any other game I have ever seen. - BALANCE WORKS ALL WAYS. IF ONE TEAM CAN DO SOMETHING, ALL OTHER TEAMS SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE SAME TO AROUND AN EQUAL LEVEL. - THE MOMENT YOU GIVE ONE TEAM AN AA THAT CAN FIRE FURTHER AND TRACK BETTER; AN IFV THAT HAS EVERY ABILITY THAT OTHERS DONT INCLUDING AIRCRAFT TRACKING AND HE-VT, AND A MBT THAT CAN SPONGE ROUNDS THAT NO OTHER VEHICLE COULD, THAT IS NOT BALANCE. THAT IS BIAS. And anybody who supports that bias (which is alot of the playerbase) are part of the problem and are the reason the game is struggling, because you let your personal beliefs dictate how you want the game to be.

Everything I have said in this Review is backed up by multiple pieces of clear evidence over the history of the game and can easily be found by either playing the game yourself, or by looking up plenty of videos on youtube to see some of the things the Dev team have done over the past, or are currently doing.