Then you’re not playing these sorts of tanks optimally, and thus can’t really speak for their balance.
To me, there’s no difference between someone who plays like this, and someone who plays their Nashorn on any map, and thus willfully takes it brawling on Advance to the Rhine, and then complains on the forums that the Nashorn is woefully underpowered.
You’re taking a vehicle outside of it’s intended niche, where it is most effective, and then complaining that it can’t perform well. Then you’re demanding changes that would allow it to perform outside of it’s niche, with the knockon effect of making it overpowered within that original niche.
Agreed, so don’t play it there. Or, rather, don’t first spawn it. The longer the game goes on, the fewer top tier tanks are going to be roaming around, and the more likely people will be stuck in lower tiered tanks or lineup fillers with weaker guns.
When I’m playing a lineup with a BR sensitive tank in it (Say, 4.7 UK with the Churchill VII), and I end up in a full uptier, I spawn other vehicles first. I save that heavy tank until a later spawn, where odds are better it’ll run into weaker tanks it can handle. It’s still not going to perform like it can when it’s top tier, and I don’t delude myself into expecting that it will be able to.
I understand the fact that such vehicles will be very bipolar depending on the matchmaker, and that’s infinitely preferable to them being balanced around being uptiered. See the PUMA and BMPT when they were released for examples of what happens when a tank with very strong armor and weak firepower is placed at a tier where it’s firepower doesn’t hold it back.
Soft maybe. I’m open to changing it’s soft stats to help it settle at it’s BR. That means I could see it getting a slight reload buff and/or the upgraded 85mm shell. But I don’t know if it would be balanced with those at it’s current BR. I’d need to have hands on experience with it. I’m just leery because I remember how it was with it’s original BR, where it was hands down the most overpowered tank in the game (At the time). It’s why people are so sensitive to giving it buffs, we’ve seen that thing ruin the entire BR bracket before, we don’t want to see that again.
