Since I do not post this on the WT forums out of fear of being banned or simply having my post deleted.
Russian bias. Blatant, simple, Russian bias. And WT devs have gotten more and more lazy of late.
Look, I get that it's easier to just take the values of a gun in one vehicle then apply it for all tanks that carry the same gun, but that's not how things work in real life. Also, yes WT devs, you're biased. If you can't see it, close your eyes, clear your thoughts for a moment, and look again. Your T-34 tanks are firing as fast as your SPG platforms and heavy tanks, despite having more cramped turrets compared to these other platforms, yet on the German side not only do you reduce weapon rates of fire to that of the slowest RoF of any vehicle mounting a weapon, and giving some tanks outright unhistorical rates of fire.
Long-gunned Panzer IV tanks? You give the rate of fire of the Hetzer. Never mind that the Hetzer lacked ready racks, unlike the PzIV, nor that the Hetzer required the loader to lift a round over the gun to the other side to slide it in the breech, unlike the Panzer IV. Oh and the historical sources suggesting an average of 2-3 times the RoF historically in comparison to the T-34, you instead make it reload slower.
Panther? You give it the manual's stated -training- rate of fire. Yes, they limited it to 6 rounds per minute in training soas not to cause undue stress on the recoil mechanism. Yes, if you fired too fast for too long the recoil mechanism would stop working correctly and would take as long as thirty seconds to return to a position where it could fire again. But I don't see any of your tanks or planes, known for recoil issues, being limited to a -training- rate of fire due to their flaws. The panther? Never mind the post-war French tests showing a maximum RoF of 20 rounds per minute. Or the Eisenhower and British reports suggesting 12-15 rounds per minute.
Sherman Premium? Here is a blatant disregard for... everything. The manual says 20 Rounds per minute. International testing had a record of 24, with most crews averaging a maximum RoF of 18-20 RPM from the ready rack... which has 20 shells. But you reduce the Rate of Fire to 12 rounds per minute, the average rate for pulling ammo from the hull. While your Russian tanks all get their RoF's based on ready racks. Oh, and let's leave in the Sherman's ready rack as a full ammo rack able to be set off for extra lulz even though obviously you're not using the values.
Oh, and then we have the fun bit that all the German guns are being give penetration values at 30 degrees in-game, for against 90 degree armor in the game calculations. Nevermind that the Russian guns all get those nice vs 90 penetration values.
Another thing, transmission fires, nevermind it doesn't bother Russian tanks. Sure, you -say- that you have historical evidence... but when asked for it you say you can't provide it, ignoring the fact that all historical sources the entire international forum community have gone through shows not one single occurrence of a tank lost to a transmission fire.
And this isn't even getting into planes, where Russian planes are severely undertiered compared to all the other nation planes for the most part.
Just... what the hell Gaijin. What happened to historical accuracy and your promise to be unbiased? If you're wondering, this is why I haven't bought gold in quite some time.
Sincerely, Evaris.
... I apologize for that everyone, I just needed to let that out.