I won’t make any claims on TryHarding to improve or anything - With how rigged and unbalanced the game is there’s no point. However, I still have enough pride as a gamer to not indulge in cheating myself out of a proper experience through doing things like using ULQ or playing Russia every single day of the week.
Lmfao. How compelling.
“Bu-but it’s not the same! The bishma it’s from india it’s obviously different!”
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I guess all those Russia-mains who went ballistic complaining about the UK getting a T-90…were doing it because it’s bad?..
🤔
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It’s rather funny ngl
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Are you saying there isn’t a single bad vehicle in the Russian tech tree?
The T-90A is a bad tank by any metric, but that doesn’t mean I think the Object 292 (or any other comparable tank) is bad.
Just to make this clear: Obviously I don’t think the Russian tech tree is bad, in fact, I’ve always said it’s the joint best tech tree in the game together with the German and American tech tree, these three have an enormous selection of competitive and enjoyable vehicles throughout.
I’ve got an entire post dedicated to how many T-series tanks have overperforming glacis armour.
You’re barking up the wrong tree here.
My most played vehicle is the Leopard 1.
My recent most played vehicle is the M1A1 Abrams.
Are you sure you’re addressing the correct person here?
I don’t think you want to go down that road with me.
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I remember a lot of everybody whining about the T-90S in the British tree. There were Indian fans complaining about it being British, British fans complaining about a Russian tank in the tree, Russian fans complaining about the same, and then American mains complaining about how the M1E3 isn’t in game or something.
It is -6?
Idk, a V-92S2F is a pretty powerful engine.
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Compared to other Nations Russia has the lowest number of vehicles that are objectively bad. Same applies for objectively passable.
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Very good. My opinion of you has improved slightly.
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I don’t statcheck, but from what I’ve read from you as of late it made a strong impression of you being another IvanBoo.
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Or what, you’ll statcheck me? Be my guest. You couldn’t pay me to care less, especially since I regularly ODL, so even I don’t care about my own stats.
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What do you think makes it bad? It’s personally one of my favorite tanks for its BR in the Soviet tree, and for what it has it’s quite great.
Main downside is the abysmal reverse speed. It forces you into a rather defensive playstyle, same with the T72 series.
Defensive playing usually doesn’t win you games.
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There are always complaints when another nation than the manufacturer gets a vehicle, thats not unique to russia.
Last time i remember was the huge Hunter drama. Which i also still think should not have gone to germany.
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I’m sorry, but given the fact that you believe the T-90A to be a good vehicle, I don’t trust your judgment regarding what is and isn’t a good Russian vehicle.
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Okay.
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I’d prefer if you just asked me about, instead of assuming I am someone that I’m not.
You also said that I play Russian vehicles a lot, how’d you know that if you didn’t stat check? Regardless, I play 5 different nations. -
Then why accuse someone of being bad in the first place?
I mean this in the best possible way but please… mate, I provided you with a handy chart that explains exactly which tank uses which engine. But you’re still confused about it?
The T-90A does not use the V-92S2F.
Old chart and an out-dated comparison, but it still gets the point across:
- Absolute worst gun handling at high tier? Check.
- Absolutely awful mobility? Check.
- Awful reload rate? Check.
- Terrible survivability? Check
It’s a tank that’s extremely passive. It can’t reach powerpositions before your opposition does due to it’s horrendous mobility.
It can’t play aggressively because it’s got cripplingly poor reaction speed, it also can’t handle multiple opponents at once due to the terrible reload rate.
It can’t properly peak corners or hills because the reverse speed is atrocious.
It can’t brawl consistently, because the moment you run into someone with basic T-72/T-80/T-90 weakspot knowledge you’re done for.
It’s resigned to being a backline sniper with it’s thermals and good penetration, but that simply isn’t the META in War Thunder.
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Well, given its decently abundant smoke grenade stock and great traverse speed, as well as good acceleration, it’s quite easy to get out of some situations if you take care to be aware of the terrain around you.
I’d say the armor also makes up for the poor reverse speed, allowing for very aggressive gameplay and hard pushes that other tanks simply can’t do.
I don’t know enough about this.
But even if he was right and T90 uses said powerful engine, isn’t the limiting factor for the reverse speed the gearbox anyway ?
I mean you can mount a jet engine in there, if the gearbox sucks it sucks.
Smoke grenades are fairly useless without reverse speed though.
I don’t know man, in my expierience, which is don’t rely on armor anyway, it doesn’t really.
Im not saying it’s a bad tank, it’s just a forced gameplay experience.
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In War Thunder engine power is quite important, the M18 Hellcat just received an additional 60 horsepower in yesterday’s patch, and it now accelerates MASSIVELY quicker than it did before, the only problem is that I don’t quite remember if Gaijin changed the terrain type in any update between my first and current test.
Acceleration to 40 km/h:
- (old): 8:13 seconds.
- (new): 5:92 seconds.
Yup, V-92S2. Not sure why I specifically said S2F, as that came almost 2 decades after the S2’s implementation.
That’s just a pretty bad chart overall, with incorrect information, completely void information in some areas, as well as generalizations that seem to be made off of the stat-card.
I have no clue why reverse pivot is N/A, as the T-90 is entirely capable of it.
It also is vastly superior to the M1A1 when comparing both in their best pivot gears, which is 4F for the M1 and 3F for the T-90A.
I also find the -4dg hilarious, the T-90A has -6dg of depression.
Also not sure when the armor figures were taken, as I can’t think of anywhere but the driver port that offers less than 400mm of protection. Both are about on-par without the ERA, and K-5 only assists in that.
I wasn’t, it uses the base V-92S-2, which is only 1000hp i stead of the 1130 of the S-2F.
It is, though the engine power assists in traverse speed and the ability to turn around and leave instead of outright reversing.
The entire point of the smoke grenades is to give you the concealment to turn around and leave.
I’ve had quite a few moments where it has taken a beating. Especially with the great turret armor coverage for a wide angle, as well as the general increase in protection that ERA offers, it’s very forgiving for the first few shots thrown at you.