In hindsight of the BMPT desaster, I’ve come to the conclusion that its not just the BMPT. Its just the most blatant example how fast firing cannon pretty much ruin any tank gameplay.
There is almost nothing tactical anymore. Most successful gameplay seems to be just pressing forward and brrrrp what you can. It alrady starts at lower BRs, where autocannons have sufficient pen to quickly disable key mods and to penetrate most areas of a tank. And it just gets worse. All these BMP, BMD, BTR and whatnot. Many more. Just speeding over maps and lol at everything moving on tracks with a single shot cannon. Mostly combined with ludicrous speeds, it also kills the capture game modes. They always snatch all caps for themselves and get tons of spawn points. Often they also have extended gameplay features like scouting, artillery, ammo crates… Its too much. Ordinary tanks are just left behind in the dust.
It can’t really stay like this. So here’s the suggestion. A more tactical game mode just for tanks. Not brrrp tincans. Just some carefully selected SPAAs, which can’t be abused too much vs ground vehicles.
Something really needs to happen, or GRB dies as Naval did.
We’re officially in the autocannon meta. Russia benefits the most with the absurd amounts of autocannon vehicles. Every other nation has SPAA like Gepard and the likes. And even if we add this new game mode, russia has plenty of classic MBTs like the other nations to do well. I miss the old days of having every shot placement matter and skill being a crucial aspect. Now it’s just A10 gameplay over and over.
A rework to sim would fix this for me. I also don’t enjoy fighting modern IFVs with my cold war tanks, a sim bracket based on the time period would be nice. We will probably never see this though
Gaijin can’t even give us a 100% tank mode without idiots in planes, so removing a tank type because the BMPT is a balancing disaster, you can dream on, I think.
I tested it myself. Yesterday in certain autocannon vehicle around the 7.0 bracket. Its all a bit difficult, cause I get plagued by packet loss spikes, lately.
But, I got a nuke (not dropped, cause tickets blinked down faster), despite most tanks I faced were heavy and super heavy US ones. Its just so quickly…you spray them for a second and everything is disabled. And while they enjoy extraordinary long repair times, I disabled everyone else nearby. Then you drive up to their sides and finish one after another. Or just shot certain weekspots like cupolas and other. Zero aiming, just permanent shooting, spraying. This can’t be it. It also has to be said that permanently shooting them takes away their aiming capabilities, there’s usually so much sparking and smoke, that you they can’t aim at you with a single shot cannon, they mostly miss. It wont matter for you, you simply keep firing in that direction and profit.
Best kills are always spraying their smoke launchers and tracks. Then lolzer them while they can’t see anything, stuck in in their own smokecloud.
Its E-M-B-A-R-A-S-S-I-N-G. Has nothing to do with tank gameplay imho. More like Doom 3D team deathmatch .
Dude, I know all that, but personally I’d rather have a 100% ground-based mode than dream about this kind of thing. WarT isn’t and NEVER will be balanced; nothing they do is good because their priority is money, that’s all. Even BVVD doesn’t play its own game because to come out with nonsense like, “just hide behind a building, it’s very easy to escape an IR missile,” you shouldn’t expect a high IQ from the devs and the direction they’re taking this game, but hey, apparently the community likes it (that’s also BVVD, so it must be true (no)).
Just play ussr 10.7 :)
T80ud/t80b mbt with 6s reload - check
2s38 with both at and aa capabilities - check
Strongest aa at that br (2s6, osa, strela) - check
One of if not strongest cas plane at 10.7 with actual dmg and not just barrel/track, su25bm - check
No strong autocannons playing vs you, just horrid bushmasters - check
And of course, terminator which, well, terminates any leftovers of balance - check
This way you can play no autocannon mode and have fun
Nothing else to write honestly.
It’s like you say that football goal is too small because you can’t hit it from 16m away. Of course people will laugh at you and bring up the skill card.