Not APHE, but funnily enough, they tested a 120mm sabot round with the T43 (M103 prototype)
There was an APDS for the T34 and M103.
Any chance there’s an answer from the devs? Open bias like this should get an answer. @Smin1080p @Stona_WT
Yeah, doesn’t really make much sense that APHE and HE are treated the same.
Obviously a difference whether your explosive breaks up a thin walled HE shell or a thick walled AP round.
The reason is that US players love to complain how their vehicles are treated unfair and are much worse than German tanks but when they add overpressure 90mm APHE, the tanks would just move up even more.
Imagine a M26 or T26E5 that just one shot everything, regardless where they pen.
Should it be added? Probably.
Should overpressure for APHE be changed? Definitely.
It honestly makes no sense that early versions of APHE shells are more effective based on some silly game design decision by Gaijin.
We can only hope for APHE finally getting a rework this year.
Should overpressure for APHE be changed? Definitely.
To be fair this would cause pretty big issues for long reload APHE guns that depend on it. Honestly I think APHE atm is fine, ammunition just needs some overall changes as I have dictated before.
Tiger 1 arleady can do it. And?
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Ok, so do you support the Tiger E going up with its large filler APHE? It should be what 6.7, 7.0?
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@Stona_WT that is my bug report. It was closed for not being a bug. When Gaijin chose to increase the velocity of the M82, they change the one variant those vehicles have access to. When Gaijin chose to implement the BR-471D for the IS-2 44 and other Russian tanks, they added it, not replace an existing round. The result was the 90mms have 1 APHE, while the Soviet tanks have 3 APHEs. Why not add some or all additional 90mm variants, so they also have multiple APHE rounds? I don’t think all 3 are necessary but they are available?
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Nothing, just get accustomted fighting IS-3s and T-54s more often.
I honestly have no clue what you are trying to say here.
Tiger 1 arledy can overpressure everyone.
You say if the 90mm guns receive their large APHE rounds, they have to go up in BR to fight post war MBTs.
In response, I ask what BR the Tiger E should go to, since it has an APHE round with over 200 grams of TNT. Should it be 6.7 or 7.0?
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And the lack of APHE causes even more issue with vehicles firing solid shot.
Not to mention it causes a lot of issues for vehicles with fast reloads that overpressrues, because they become unreasonable effective.
The issue is not that one vehicle should always oneshot the issue is that all vehicles should be able to do that.
It shouldn’t matter whether 152mm AP or APHE hits the lower plate and transmission of a Tiger, and it shouldn’t matter whether a Tiger gets hit in the side of the turret by 17pdr AP or 85mm APHE.
If APHE gets reworked it’s still desirable that all vehicles get more effective, regardless whether they use solid shot or APHE.
Oh no, germany will suffer without their best WR and K/D.
A Tiger is not a T26E5 and fighting post-war MBTs doesn’t mean they have the same BR as them.
In fact they already can fight them so your troll argument makes no sense.
I’m just saying that no US tank with overpressure APHE is going to stay at the same BR.
The M26 is also not a T26E5. The M36 is also not a T26E5.
And I’m just saying the M71 exists with 1200 grams of TNT, so adding the 199 gram M82 changes nothing. If the Tiger E is fine at 6.0 with overpressure, the T26E5 is fine at 6.7 with overpressure.
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That’s not for you to decide :)
A vehicles performance increases, it goes up in BR. Simple.
Wrong.
If vehicle isn’t German it goes up in BR. If vehicle is Italian is goes up in BR twice.
Of course, if it was up to me, Gaijin would treat US tanks like they do Russian and German.