#Tech Tree re-balancing?

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formal valve
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Are there any plans to review and re-balance any of the World War II tech trees, especially in the lower tiers? I've been grinding the Italian line towards the Rinoceronte and just started the Polish line heading down the medium line. The Italian line was rough, but it pales in comparison to how awful the Polish line has been thus far. These poor tanks are so incredibly outclassed by fully leveled tech tree tanks, and even more so by premiums, that they really can't make any meaningful contribution to a match. Surely nobody enjoys slinging low pen rounds that might pen for 110 damage, while taking 300-400 guaranteed damage in return, courtesy of cardboard armor!

formal valve
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Was just reading Zorin's Friday Stream Recap and noticed the following:

WW2: Improving stock grinds of lower tiers. Focused on China, Czech, Italian and French tanks.

Guess that answers my question, and can say with certainty that it will make the early grind much more bearable. It took me 11 games to fully level the 14TP, during which time I felt completely useless and that was still worth a 7974 wn8 which is bananas.

thorn veldt
formal valve
# thorn veldt I found the polish line gets better at tier 7 but everything before that was a s...

I found that all of the Czech and Polish tanks before tier 7 were complete rubbish compared to the handful of tanks that people play in each tier. Even 7 and 8 were rough until getting a couple of upgrades. I had a game in the Tier IV stock 14TP where I fired all 60 rounds and had 0 pens and 5 critical hits. I briefly contemplated deleting the game, because that's just crazy. Thankfully they have acknowledged that this is an issue and hopefully something it done to bring that tanks up to par.

shell jasper
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Czech tier 6 is one of the best in game and very enjoyable.

I also hope they dont "Fix" Italy's low tier HE pen.

Anyhow low tier balance is a funky task as there are a lot of tanks with dubious armor half the time. The guns on most tanks are have horrid dispersion and handling, combined with many having auto cannons.