It has to be within spitting distance to pen the hull sides of T26E5, T26E4 (Super Pershing), T29, T34, T32, and T32E1. Ironically it’s far easier to side shot an M103 or T58 with their 50mm side hulls.
And yes, all the light tank plague need to be melted with AA.
On this topic, I personally think CAS is unbalanceable so long as its implemented as a killstreak powerup ripped out of CoD.
Problem is, the way it’s currently set up, you have dumb game mechanics encouraging its use for petty revenge, most ground-to-air counters being ineffective unless the plane is especially dumb, air-to-air counters also being stuck as powerups, and all aircraft lacking the vast majority of their real objectives to kill instead of just player tanks.
If it means making every SPAAG functionally a “destroyer of worlds,” then by all means if that part of the CAS implementation problem is dealt with.
Can we give a shout out to how freakin’ slow the 341 reverses?
So -3KM/h, regardless of on flatground or on an incline. That’s 15km/h less than Panther 2, 1km/h less than T-72, 15km/h less than Object279. So it’s very easy to drive yourself into a situation you cannot get out of if not careful. The real advantage of 341 is an excellent turret rotation speed, paired with more mobile enemies often putting themselves at a disadvantage to try take you out (as seen in the clip).
It’s slow, sure. But that’s not really all that big of a problem when you can just smoke up with your smoke mortar and turn around to run away.
Emergency BR changes probably going to make the tank better since it’ll fight more paper armor, the only downside will be lower enemy reaction time on enemy tanks with stabs (brits only).
Wont change anything, as a matter of fact I think a higher BR will make the Coelian even better since it will face more lightly armored vehicles.
Only way I can imagine this being fixed is by removing the APHE belt, fixing the many bugs there are with high caliber autocannons or make stuff like the elevations and traverse speed horrendous to use. (the turret is largely fictional so Gaijin can do whatever they want with it)
I’m fine with it going up in BR, of course. Just like I like that the Falcon went up from 7.3 to 8.3. Each BR change it only got better. However, lets not act like 7.0-7.7 isn’t heavy vehicle spam.
These emergency BR and balancing changes between the patch cycles only seem to affect German tanks? Was the same with the Leopard 2’s.
Also an indicator for Bias, didn’t ever remember problematic russian tanks got changed that fast. Literally withing days. Remember the PT-76 and many more. (Also current Soyuz).
I aprecciate that the Kugel gets a decent BR now. Was about time.
Small caliber, high-pen, high tnt-equivalent APHE will always be an issue just because of how APHE works at the moment (spherical damage instead of more exaggerated AP spall). You shoot so many per second and can cupola / ricochet them to the point where you can kill practically any tank, even without abusing any armour holes they may have.
We could change how APHE works, but that means more inconsistency for every tank that uses APHE – I don’t think people want to switch to glorified AP, effectively changing how some weak spots are handled (for example, Jumbo 75mm trying to cupola Tiger H1, or Tiger II H trying to cupola T95). This would also enhance the difference in capabilties between overpressure APHE (~170g+ TNT equiv) and non-overpressure APHE shells.
Maybe reduce the penetration, or perhaps the TNT equivalent of the lower caliber APHE (35mm, 37mm, 40mm, 57mm etc) rounds would be the better option here.
Players also could just watch the surroundings. But as long as Gajin prefers to do quick “fixes” at German vehicles, allied teams are safe with holding W.
Leopard 1 with 100mm pen still roaming with 65 km/h at 6.3 or something.
I wanted APHE nerfed to realistic behavior ages before the poll even came up that we were winning to have changed before Gaijin changed their mind like the lazy slobs they are.
