If the damn thing fires half as fast as a bushmaster but has the same spread, it probably could use an accuracy buff rather than a BR lowering. I don’t think it being 8.7 would change much anyways
It would be interesting if they gave it its true accuracy, so it could hit weak points on the first shot even at long distances, destroying cannons at 800 or 1000 meters with the first shot. The biggest problem with the accuracy advantage in autocannons is that the game itself doesn’t allow you to exploit that advantage, due to the pitiful size of the maps combined with the large amount of cover, and the fact that the large number of MTBs are generally protected frontally against autocannons. In these cases, it’s the rate of fire plus the game’s inherent randomness that determines whether the MTBs are damaged or destroyed, while cannons with a low rate of fire are negatively affected by randomness, since they function like regular weapons and don’t do enough damage. The basic premise of the game is: what’s the point of a sniper rifle on maps where combat is limited to shotgun range?
The Badger is not similar to the Scimitar and fox at all, its much slower, longer and taller, making it hard to maneuver around and hide and easy to hit. That couples with the awful gun is why it can never be a good light tank no matter how much you down tier it.
Just need to wait for the Scimitar Mk2 to replace it
the only difference is that its larger and a little slower, but has thermals and a stabiliser.
firepower is next to identical, scimitar and fox are great with it
Honestly the Stabilzier is a moot point.
The Fox/Scimitar have such fast traverse rates it doesn’t matter, they can fire on the move easily.
The funny thing is that the Budger shares with the Fox and Scimitar the fact that their cannons have a bolt-action design that sacrifices rate of fire for great long-range accuracy, which is something that is not reflected in the game.
That’s part of the problem, because when you find a tank, you shoot at its cannon, and due to the accuracy, several bullets miss, the enemy turns around and kills you, whereas with cannons with a high rate of fire you simply shoot and if several bullets miss, the next ones will hit and break the enemy cannon.
It’s exactly as fast as the statcard says it is.
^ Values without any Modifications
^ Values if spaded
While DENEL did list a RoF of 200rds/min initially, this was before they had even built the gun (GI-30, do not confuse it with EMAK-30 !)
Ever since they went past that step, they decreased the RoF figure to 100rds/min.
Solely a newer advertisement video indicates a further increase as it lists the RoF as 110rds/min.
Press release: (100rds/min)
Snippet from advertisement: (110rds/min)
If implemented, the reload-time would go from 0.6s to 0.545s.
Anyway, I agree that it should be moved down in BR.
At the same time, there are figures for the vehicle (however equipped with a different gun, which in this case kinda sucks for reporting it) listing the 1 sigma dispersion as 0.4mrad.
3 sigma would thus be 1.2mrad, which corresponds to 0.0688°, slightly lower than the current 0.08° (1.4mrad).