Who have you been combative with? Those saying the 2S38 should go up and given evidence for? Or the ones calling others mentally deficient and dumb for wanting it to go up in BR?
HSTVL is double the speed of 2S38 with a 30KPH higher top speed, it’s smaller, slightly more armored, with a vastly superior gun, better round, and superior gun laying.
Which is why it’s 11.3 and not 10.3. HSTVL is so vastly superior to 2S38 and Strf 9040C.
Which is why the HSTVL cost more than all other light vehicles in the world to prototype.
Okay? BR doesn’t mean something is better or worse, or even an indicator of how much better or worse. That’s the entire reason for this thread existing. Gaijin is inept at balance, and always has been. The Ki-84 Hei is at 7.7 in arcade. It fights Mig 15s.
Does that mean the Ki-84 Hei is capable of fighting a Mig-15? It sure the fuck is not.
The Otomatic is a full BR and a half higher than the 2S38, does that mean it is better? No. The Otomatic is in fact worse at doing its job than the 2S38 is.
Is the HSTV-L better than the 2S38? Meh. Kind of. Not really. It’s a lot faster as a light tank, and can flank better, can get into cheeky spots with its insane depression, but otherwise it performs a different role. The 2S38 can sit hull down, and be area denial. It can do a LOT more damage in a lot shorter time frame than the HSTV-L can, just like most IFVs can, just because of its rate of fire and ammo options.
It can also perform as an anti-air. So no, it’s not that much worse than the HSTV-L, it’s just sitting in a different role. It’s like comparing the Puma to the Begleit.
Arcade flight models are far more cracked than RB flight models.
A2D is 9.0 in air arcade and that’s 100% deserved.
OTOMATIC fires DM23 equivalent rounds, that’s the only reason it’s above 10.0.
HSTVL is the 2nd fastest tank in the game, period. The fastest is the VT-1-2 casemate tank.
There are no hull-down maps anymore. 2S38 is as weak as Strf 9040C to APFSDS.
2S38 is 10.0, not 9.0. 2S38 being a 9.3 SPAA at 10.0 doesn’t mean anything. 2S38’s SPAA ability is entirely irrelevant to its BR.
2S38, Begleit, HSTVL, and Strf 9040C are all BR’d based purely on their anti-tank capabilities since their anti-air is vastly inferior.