It’s not. And it’s even easier the higher in tier you go, once you get to LRFs, it’s completely irrelevant.
Have you tried playing a Panther? What good reverse speed is on that?
It’s a lot easier to not show your barrel when it doens’t extend several meters out in front of your tank and doesn’t have a brake on it.
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Mate I am covered on bushes in a hull down,cant get any more hidden than that and still the physics dictates that every shot from a speck on the horizon has to smash my barrel out.3 times in 3 games
You make a fair point about zones etc but I am talking game play being ruined not reality as such ,I know we lose reality in many ways but we do have too much of some things and not enough of others.
If you have sufficient cover, then there’s no issue and you can just repair. Consider yourself lucky; a better shot could have just killed you.
And that’s really the core of the issue, barrel shots are only ever efficient when:
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You can’t pen the tank you’re fighting (thus it’s fair to have this mechanic, so tanks with weak guns can actually play the game)
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Your opponent isn’t being disciplined with his barrel. Woe to the unfortunate soul who haphazardly sticks his barrel through walls or around corners. (At that point it’s just a skill issue, watch where you point your barrel):
Any other scenario, and a tank with a better gun or better aimed shot could have just killed you anyway so it doesn’t really matter.
If a barrel shot ends up getting you killed, you probably could have been killed by a shot somewhere else to begin with.
You could have been behind the hill, impossible to see. That’s the only absolute cover. Good players know to scan the ridges of hills for silhouettes.
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I could have not been in a German tank or playing Fallout 4 but that is not the point is it?
I have played 14000 games all WW2 .I have the dreaded P2W bushes covering the turret ,even the barrel and I am on one those hated snipers you all detest and you tell me this? Wrong answer bro : )
Yeah, someone hits my barrel with a 20mm round, it goes orange, but I smoke a barrel with a massive 8.8 or 7.5 cm round, and it does absolutely nothing. The RNG on it is abysmal.
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Don’t cosmetic bushes stop rendering after a certain distance? Or am I confusing that with the effect low quality mode has on all bushes in general.
Anyway, I’m not saying you’re a bad player. My point is that barrel shots are fine as they are, at least in theory. Zyranovos made a good point about them being super janky but that’s a Gaijin issue.
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I’m not sure bushes do anything against CAS but from what everybody tells me they are the Devils garden and make me invulnerable and a P2W nightmare to face but that good old enemy round can see straight through it all and hit the end of my barrel every time in this amazing game of realism : )
I’ll be honest ,I don’t see the Tiger or many other German tanks at 6BR as anything other than sniping tanks.I use them as they were made to be used both in relay and in game(according to you fine people who I come to for advice)
I am saying its too much ,so you face a Tiger ,Oh just one shot the barrel ,No problem.
Fine of you are not playing a German tank but what if you are? I suppose all those who play with certain other tanks have the same game destroying issue.
I am asking is it too much.I guess some say no and some say yes.
I am kind of glad its not just me being a whiner : ) .At least I know now.
Its not sucking in the shells people activly aim for it as they know that they cant deal with a tiger in a ranged engament. It is realstic as the enemy goes for you weak point. You got out skilled, gid gud. Simpel as.
Here is a littel trick, try spining the turret from left to right to make it harder and only stop on targets you want to shoot. It makes your armour even tougher as the movemnt of turret changes the thicknes constantly. You can combine that with scanning for targets.
it isn’t. A large amount of the game only works balance wise because as a lesser tank you can have tools like disabling the enemy tank through weakspots like barrel sniping so you can then flank it for the kill.
Not to mention its simply REALISTIC for this to be the case, if your barrel is shot you are no longer a tank irl, you are a bunker with machine guns.
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When those tanks aren’t balanced to where they can flank or do other shit? Yes. When maps don’t allow flanking and are narrow streets? Yes.
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Unless gaijin wakes up tommorow and decides to fix the massive amount of BR compression this game has and/or rework the maps to actually allow things such as “flanking” then yes.
it isnt
Typical Eddie nonsense yawns
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Eddie has good topics 90% of the time to me, you just don’t like them
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Asking to remove it is a huge no.
Aiming in game is so much easier than it is in real life. However, I do like the mechanics of disabling barrels as it helps outplay, historical, and a useful strategic tactic. It does get annoying, but that’s just how it is and designed. The only way to reduce the chances of getting disabled like that, especially against the barrel, is forcing Gunner Sight mode for GRB just like in SB. But the chances of that happening is close to 0%.
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( it would highly improve grb but the playerbase is bad and would cry :( )
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This is why I hate playing all Panthers, except Panther F
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And before even M2 Browning could disable any cannon with muzzel brake, good it can’t anymore. But still this is RNG BS.
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Shooting the gun is sometimes the best ways to deal with a tiger. A m4 can’t really do much against an angled tiger.
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So is there much point playing a Tiger or any German tank with such a gun set up and is it in any way the reason why Germany has such poor win rates?
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