It’s because they balanced it around the VCC with the fast reload and heavily nerfed performance, which also clearly showcases that shell performance has nothing to do with real world performance and is nerfed on the fly.
One of them is a 30mm APDS 500 RPM, one a 25mm APDS 200 RPM and on a 60mm APFSDS 8 RPM.
Or just move it down to 7.0/7.3 where it belongs :shrug:
The M551 76 is at 7.0 with more pen and better post pen as well as more armor and survivability + a 50 cal
While the HVG gets an even worse driver hatch deadzone than the M551 76 with worse pen and post pen (not to even mention how good the APCBC of the M551 76 is in a flank)
Fair point actually, M551 has more armor, higher pen, higher post pen damage, faster reload, better turret rotation speed, smoke shells, .50 cal, extra crew member, better depression, tracked, MG protection, better lineup options… all at an entire BR lower.
Putting it at 7.0 wouldn’t do anything for it however with autocannon post pen but with less than 2% of the RoF
It would make its mobility and penetration matter.
At 8.0, while most things are not as fast as you, they are fast enough to make your mobility irrelevant
Additionally, at 8.0 most vehicles barely have any armor and are a lot more surviveable compared to 7.0 heavies. While yeah 7.0 heavies are surviveable, your penetration does matter and you will have to actually aim for weakspots because some tanks actually have more armor than you can pen (cough cough t95)
You’ll still die after every shot because you won’t kill anything at 7.0 either, the only way to kill anything is ammo rack it or something that was already shot and low on crew or have cramped crew.
The thing is at 7.0 you will be able to use your speed and long range capabilities a lot better which means that you will be in less situations where you cant do anything
As long as the post pen damage isn’t improved it’s going to suck at BR 1.
It’s a realistic amount of post pen though
I don’t know if that’s realistic, when the vehicle was first added it was actually playable, they just heavily nerfed small caliber APFSDS at some point.
I don’t see how it can be realistic that 60mm APFSDS has the same post pen as 30mm APDS.
Most APFSDS overperforms
This is why I don’t get why the m551, T29, and the like aren’t 7.3 or higher.
But I think with what I’ve suggested, it’ll fix the Aubl to be fun and fair
In the real world ripping through a tank with APFSDS is enough to have the crew bail out and not going to be a threat anymore, but the game doesn’t have that type of realism, which is why it’s obnoxious they will model a safety feature for the Leopard 2 that existed to protect the barrel when barrels don’t even interact with the world and cannot be damaged.
Some crew are very brave irl, others, not so much.
What cannons did you use here?
This issue also exists in rooikat MK.1D
BMP-2M, M3A3 Bradley.
Rookat??? Are you joking? It has a 105 XD
Rooikat MK1D is a 76mm main gun, it is not Rooikat 105, they are not the same gun
Yup, if anything it will be worst because you see more 50 cals that easily kill you.
It needs reload and post pen then it will be fine for 8.0
I’m sure that 76mm does way more damage than the 60mm of the Aubl / Vcc 80/60. Both which, in addition to little spall, oddly don’t cause ammo hits to detonate in enemy tanks often. I had to shoot a T95 4 times in the ammo before it exploded.