It frankly feels utterly useless at times thanks to the slow reload and mediocre mobility due to being a heavy tank in Arcade on top of getting sucked into 8.0+ against 2nd generation MBT’s with better everything. Its armor feels unreliable due to weakpoints and the pen indicator. I just don’t know what I could do better with it. I try to go hull down and get out-sniped by MBT’s, and I try to use it in cities and I get out-shot by everything.
The main problem with playing heavy tanks in arcade is people easily knowing where you are and so you have to adjust what you are doing and try to stay away from brawling ( most US tanks are not good in a brawling situation ) Stay in cover as much as you can, they may know where you are but they cant hit you, but lighter tanks may flank you.
After shooting you want to back into cover and wait for the reload. so you want to pop in and out of cover to take the shots to help increase your survivability. You never want to move forward toward the enemy while reloading as this will get you killed.
Heres an old video that still has good info on it
That was unfortunately thoroughly unhelpful considering the entire bit about being “hard to kill” literally doesn’t apply when sabot and HEAT-FS is more common than not, and on platforms that reload at twice your speed. And assuming I found the correct player card, I’ve got a better overall track record in US heavies in Arcade than you do.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason I just can’t deal with the era of sabots and HEAT.
Yea, i dont play arcade all that much, because of everyone sees you from miles away.