For real. That and volumetric bs are the two main reasons that make me play way less than i used to. And when i open the forums i see a ton of useless threads regarding small details while the source of the gameplay is slowly dying
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you can barely see it, but it does hit the ammo
“боеукладка” means ammo in English
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Yeah is happens very often. Used to happen a lot on Tiger II and more recently it happened on a ZSU 37, Wiesel and others.
The ammo just vanishes without any explosion.
Also i’m glad to know that a stab is literally just called a stab in russian lol
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happens much more frequently on “single piece” ammo, like ammo belts on SPAA
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I’m pretty sure it’s just behind the scenes manipulation to get the desired outcome, set one vehicle to 30% chance and one to 60% chance and how is anyone going to know?
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Good point, just another reason why I prefer tanks with 200+ grams of filler for lower BRs. I don’t trust ammo racking, but I do trust crew members fried till crispy.
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GJ just loves to make certain tanks less vulnvrable and other injustly vulnerable.
British tanks use 2 part ( yes I know the caps are technically making them 3 part but I don’t care ) and you could shoot the ammo in the rear turret and detonate it, basically you could detonate solid metal with nothing there that can explode.
I also found ( not sure if its still the same ) but 1 of the challenger 2’s I was using, had 1 HESH shell secretly stowed in the hull at the front allowing you to be detonated easy even when carrying no HESH shells at all ( I hope its fixed but since its british I highly doubt it )
not really, inert rounds are modelled and do nothing when struck
before:
after:
actually managed to fire off two atgms at him lmao
replay link
https://warthunder.com/ru/tournament/replay/411278066741080414
it happened around 6:30
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The damage model is so random it’s absurd. Had a game a few days ago where I hit a YAG10 milk truck in the rear ammo box TWICE perfectly with PZIV APHE (I was out of HE) with him completely side on to me, and neither hit did anything but pass straight through, almost like ghost shells. That sort of hit on a YAG10 or FLAK88 is almost always an instakill with the ammo exploding. The inconsistency of the hit results in this game can be infuriating. Especially when you put in the hard work to gain a good position of advantage against an enemy (who in this case didn’t even know I was there until after the second shot) and this happens and YOU end up get one-shotted after having done everything right.
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That’s exactly my issue with the game currently. Skill is mitiagted by broken code and RNG.
Used a very situational tank to get to that one spot you can use ? Great, however take some volumetric bs or some unexplosive shells and there, you’re dead.
Why would i continue playing if skill becomes more and more useless ?
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yet another one
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is there a way to get this abhorrent “feature” out of the game? should anyone report it as a bug?
tbh i don’t think this thread will get any traction enough to make gaijin notice…
people would rather discuss THIS lmao
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Threads never make anything change lol, only steam review bombing.
The game is dead lads, it’s WoT bis mixed with CoD
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I wonder how large the “this vehicle should be in the USSR” wishlist gets with vehicles not even from the USSR
yet another case
yet again “боеукладка” means “ammo rack”
so, my findings about ammoracking are:
-blacked out ammo is not a guaranteed kill
-the chance is calculated per ammo piece hit, so SPAA and IFV’s are more likely to survive ammoracking
-when the non-explosion happens - the hit window shows an “ammo rack” message
-red ammo CAN kill, the chance seems lower, but it is there
-blacking out ammo simply disappears from the vehicle, disappearing from the ammo pool in the process (duh)
-inert two-piece ammo (like in british tanks) works as it should - it wont explode
-this game is BS and GRB is a hellhole
but the worst part is… NOBODY CARES! really telling of a community when NOBODY cares about the biggest damage model part being random!
honestly its quite eye-opening, gives a lot of food for thought
I agree the ammo hit situation is now a lottery ticket , as you said you can hit an SPAA or IFV ammo and still survive and on the other hand you can lose your tank due to a hit on the machinegun ammo …
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bit of an addendum: if you see “ammo rack” in your hit window - congrats! you got the random chance non-exploding ammorack!
here is how it looks from a perspective of a player getting shot
careful, loud video xD
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