TLDR
Snail secretly limits game mechanics to favor the ruskis again. Gaijin is supposed to be the Creators of a sandbox and then referee and historical judge if they want to be a war simulator that has a future. But constantly siding with one team and being so overtly biased at every level of the system completely kills credibility.
All first gen thermals in game use 500x300…800x600 for 2.
I’ve actually used the Hughes system and got to briefly look into through an export Agava2 and they were not equal at all. So I thought why wouldn’t they just put the actual resolution? Just like everything else.?
We don’t say 1st gen apdfs or ERA. We put in actual values. Would be incredibly easy. One line in a config file, and a filtering image for that associated resolution.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the Agava having 512x256? Sure they are completely unreliable, use digital zoom and not actual optical zoom, have a 4 inch crt or the early models needed to be manually uncovered… with a crew member getting out of the tank.
But who cares if they get a little extra resolution?
But once againUS NATO get screwed in a small way but 100 small ways adds up to an unbalanced game where there’s 200 people at Russian 10.3 and 30 in all NATO.
Fgeneration Abrams, Leo and other NATO tanks get 640x480 and actually zoom in and have three times the denoising filter to for clarity.
So once again the “system” in place happens to benefit one side heavily and not the other.
One side gets a massive buff at almost 35% while the other one gets a massive nerfed by almost the same amount.
(Very similar to the autoloader carousel. Rather than model it. They picked the very perfect lab condition where the crew needs the number one shell and that becomes the reload for the entire carousel, no matter how many shells, angle of the gun breach, order of the shells etc… in that case the Abrams with the best loader in the army can load a round every 2.9 seconds for 3 rounds. Should the Abrams get a 2.9 second reload?)
Once again, this would be OK if they just admitted this is not a simulator and they don’t base all their decisions on real life.
But it’s funny how every time they can’t find information or have multiple sources the US gets the very minimum or worst case scenario and the Russians seem to get the lab conditions or clearly inflated numbers from military contractors.
Long Rant
Played the game since 2014. Noticed the Russian tanks always got the benefit of the doubt. Always used their very best versions of themselves. Always got the load out they could have had even while 1 in 20 of their vehicles carried that ammo or ERA or missile while US and NATO always seemed to get their strict battle compliment and production line loadouts.
Things like the XM1 not getting the m774 even though it was actively being tested in 79. The M1 not getting the M900 because it didn’t get that round till later… the list goes on and on. (this isn’t even including the downright denial of reality with things like blowout panels)
But then their vehicles like the T 90a or T80 that never shipped with thermals at all get them. But looking deeper, they even benefit way more from mechanics that aren’t added.
I got a chance to look in an export t80 with agava2 thermals and was shocked at how horrible the quality was and how small tiny the screen was compared to the Hughes thermal system I used (that was the exact same as the Abrams)…. It was night and day to use a cheesy pun.
I started looking into it more. “First gen” thermals are not created equal. Generational weapon design only matters if it’s standardized. 1st gen, quality electronics from the company that designed the concept, did tons of research and testing and adjusted the product multiple times in multiple iterations before putting their stamp on it, is completely different from first generation technology that is figuring out the concept as a whole.
A first generation Ferrari and a second generation Ford Pinto are not the same.
If the agava his first generation, the NATO first generations are 1.5 at least. Not only are they much clearer and have much better denoising filters. They use actual optical zoom and not digital zoom.
Imagine an image that’s 512x256 image that we now use for thumbnails. Now imagine taking a screenshot and zooming in on it by 18 times and that’s what their thermals look like…. That’s assuming they had the thermals which only the commanders variants did or special tanks. If this game was accurate It would broadly be no thermals versus thermals.
They only have three resolution of thermals.
Second GEN thermals are also similar.
The French thermals on the second gen optics are not equal to the Abrams sep gen 2s. One is actual 800x 600 the other is Catherine is 754x576.
It may not seem like a lot, but it is when you’re zooming out to maximum ranges. Once again, the denoising software that was upgraded in the TIS system and Ziess are much better.
There are so many examples of Russians, getting experimental equipment or equipment that was so scarce it might as well been while US has hard historical limits . It’s crazy and needs to end.
The HSTVL program tester said it penetrated a T 72 and 80 front ally and I have the test that shows it was at least 1800 m/s velocity capable.
Or the T 95 medium not having a stabilizer and them choosing one of the few without it, not using its silica armor it was planned for.
Or the many nerfs like that XM247 all of a sudden not getting an AP round because it didn’t have it in its battle loadout, forgetting the fact that 40 mm has dozens of Armor piercing variances from all over the world and would’ve definitely incorporated it in actual battle.
Or the XM 246 not having Sabot because of the belts.
Forgetting the fact the soldiers themselves load those belts.
How about every single US Abrams dart penetration being nerfed? 829 and 829a2 by 100mm each.
Every source in the world agrees.
