Anyone else think PUMA is mediocre?

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BMP-2M can be killed by .50 cals, PUMA is near-CE and autocanon-immune (and it’s missing armor, as far as I’m aware!)

If PUMA received Spikes (fixed ones at that), its armor was further improved and the mass increase on its shells as in the Dev Server increased their penetration, it would perfectly be 10.7 material.

BMP-2M should be 10.3 at minimum due to the effectiveness of its missiles, too. I use it at 11.7 without any issue, which is where I would like to be able to use PUMA too.

But, as of now, PUMA at 1-.7 is pointless, unlike BMP-2M, due to its implementation.

Sadly, I don’t think Haijin will be giving PUMA its Spikes; instead, they will ad ANOTHER PUMA with the Spikes, so you will need to grind extra 400,000 RP (plus modifications) just to get the Spikes.

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You can use autocannons against the PUMA, but I guess 10.7 would be fair.

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I wanna know what you thought lol

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most ppl around 10.0 shoot apfsds that won’t have trouble penetrating the puma the few poor souls that shoot heat-fs just have to aim for the huge unmanned turret to see a nice fireball xD
which
A: makes you useless for the next 30 seconds + if you can run away
B: you survive and somehow become a 30mm single shot tank ( no idea is that is a bug/feature from gaijin)

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Honestly I haven’t even got the engine transmission upgrade yet and already seeing more fireworks than Chinese new year celebration, when that happens everyone sees you and CAS hanging around in planet Mars was like check this out, it’s this fool playing fireworks again, and then the next thing you find is 80% of your ammo is gone and your puny 30mm cannon has the same reload rate as IS-2.

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play with a VBCI before tell it sd mediocre puma is a cancer tank if you know how to play it

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Lol I think I know what you’re saying yeah that’s messed up

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It was a very well armoured IFV… at 8.3 when it was added.
At 10.0, its armour doesn’t stand up against any proper cannon or ATGM. IIRC it’s not even proof against 25/30mm autocannon darts.

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Nor is it meant to.

It does stand up to auto cannon fire due to its layout and it can survive poorly placed ATGMs.

Proof? No. Resistant yes.

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Claiming that a vehicle is well armoured when it’s only resistant to a single weapon type (the least powerful one, and the only type it has) is ridiculous. In that case, the M18 is well-armoured because APHE overpens. This is especially ridiculous if it’s used as the argument for why the vehicle is at a BR where it is ineffective and otherwise directly worse than every other vehicle of the class.

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IFVs aren’t meant to contend with an MBT frontally believe it or not.

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Yes it needs to be given spikes now that they are coded in to the game there is very little excuse not to.

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Lol

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Most autocannon vehicles in this game are complete garbage.

Adding spikes does nothing but increase BR even more and they are also completely useless.

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god, don’t make me laugh anymore, i cant stop😂

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I think I’ve experienced another issue, I’ve full-auto and managed to use most of the ammo, then at one point it takes forever to reload the last batch of ammo, based on how slow the loading animation rotate, it looks like it will be taking at least 10 MINUTES! I don’t know if it’s an intended feature or a bug