The model was changed without reworking the internals. They just removed armor that didn’t fit the new model instead of repositioning it, making the frontal armor weaker than prior to the rework. Its actually a lot less survivable now since they also added the new autoloader module. There is so much room inside of the ZTZ-99A turret that it allows spalling from glancing hits to spread and break the fragile loading mechanism.
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A half-assed rework if I’ve ever seen one, similar to the Challenger 2 “rework” which really didn’t change much.
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I see.
About the reload speed; is there somewhere I might find info on that?
There’s the Thai tanker manual for the VT-4 that shows the maximum fire rate of the main gun to be 9 rounds per minute, which translates to 6.7/6.5 seconds. VT-4 shares components with the 99A so it isn’t far-fetched for the 99A to share an autoloader with the VT-4.
Reload is said by Gaijin to be a balancing factor anyway, such as the Stryker MGS having a 7.5 second reload when irl it can reload in 6 seconds. With the state of CN top tier tanks, I don’t think a reload buff is an unreasonable request.
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But Gaijin (mainly its main developer) would say this: If the Kytay ZTZ99A and VT-4 are getting a buff to their autoloaders, so are the T-72B3 and T-90M
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Which is nonsense becuase the 99A doesn’t have the exact same autoloader as the previous generation; upgrades took it to 9 rounds instead of 8 per minute. The russians just made one that accepts longer rounds for their tanks.
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You can actually see the difference of the autoloader model in the x-ray, funnily enough
Though there are no changes in performance ingame
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I wonder if we’ll get the ztq15 now that the vt5 and vt5BD seem to be showing up.
Ztq15 is a different tank entirely, but seeing the vt5 gives me hope.
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Four months later and new Update coming soon and still no buffs for Chinas MBTs.
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True, and chinese mbts is maybe the worst today because of a lot of really big problems
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woah… will this be a new vehicle? maybe just a modification?
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It should be a new tank
Despite the issue for adding a spall liner to Chinese MBTs being passed so long ago, there’s still no sign of it being implemented in the game yet.
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Gaijin be like: we think this is marketing lie xaxaxa
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Gaijin accepted the report for a faster reload like 2+ years ago, there’s still zero response from them lol.
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Sounds like they just wait for a reason to buff 99A and reload speed is “balancing value” (unless it autoloaders, then please provide time tables).
Im, honestly, more bothered with lack of softkill APS (and it being marked as “optics”)
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