Ya this seems like the meta spots on every map that has these types of terrain tends to be spots like these.
Honestly I started playing Russia because I bought into the whole Russian bias thing being a German main. When I died all I saw was a tank, that on the face of it has superior armor, usually a superior round and all I could think was “Ya this shit is OP”.
You have to play these things to see what the drawbacks are, you can read 5 degrees depression, 4-11km reverse, turret rotation, vertical guidance and whatnot in the stat cards, but until you actually have to play it, it doesn’t really sink in what all these in combination mean.
My aim and game knowledge was also dogwater when I was playing germany only, and bad aim, and not knowing were to aim in different situations also played into the whole russian armor/tanks OP idea. At this point I’d trade all the armor in the world besides on the turret face for more depression and mobility/gun handling.
Good old bias.
That’s probably the easiest scapegoat to use for skill issues. What’s worse, I think I never saw someone performing that much better in USSR tanks to justify the claims.
It’s easy to focus only on the pros of vehicles that killed you, making your judgement clouded as a result.
So would I.
This is why I think uparmored leopards are the best in the game, as they have little to no crippling flaws and are great at pretty much most things.
Here’s another situation I get into a lot. Im sitting here, see the guy come around and stop at the X mark. I assume he heard me and knows where I am, because hes just sitting there staring in my general direction. Any move I make (Green arrows) results in him getting the first shot every time and IDK what to do besides sit there in a staring contest until a team mate kills him, or I get a shot on someone else. If I was in my leo I could just peak over the middle green arrow and take a shot, worst case scenario he takes out my breach and I use my mobility to get out of town.
Lucky for me he was blaring music and just gave me a free kill after he moves down the road later on. But I run into people where that isn’t the case, and they just push me, take out my breach at a angle I can’t return fire and its over and I have no clue what to do but pop smoke and run as fast as I can to get out of the situation before that happens, which takes forever in these tanks because of the awful reverse forcing me to do a 180 at a snails pace then running.
I’ve stared at this image for a while and just can not think of a single place to hold where I get first shot on someone pushing me, or at least similar shot oppurtunity, its always in their favor if they know what they doing. Maybe im wrong, I’d like to know what to do if anyone has any input (besides running away).
Trying to brawl more now as well, poor turret traverse, and especially vertical targeting is getting me killed all the time when I’d easily get first shot in otherwise.
Heres a funny video of vertical targeting getting me killed, rewatching this I probably should have heard him and looked there a second or 2 sooner but still if I didn’t have ww2 hand cracked vertical targeting speed I would have had first shot there easily and wouldn’t have to panic shoot like that.
