So the added weight of the SEP improvements weren’t for the armor because “there were no surface area changes” or something? Seems odd considering they could’ve just fit better armor into the space the old armor was in without changing the “size” of the front plate. If the excuse is that the Abrams front plate never changed size, and that’s how you know there was no extra armor ever, that seems pretty weak tbh.
Honestly like if they’d come up with an actual good reason for not having it I wouldn’t care. Yes it needs better armor but with a good excuse it’d be fine. This is not a good excuse though, this just seems like laziness
Gaijin ground devs continue to go out of their way to nerf the US ground tree. Its been an issue since the tree was added. From nerfing APCB performance, to refusing to give US tanks service ammunition, to giving the tree worse variants of vehicles than foreign trees also operated.
All Gaijin is achieving is to drive away bug reporters and long time players. The idea that the US would not up-armor the hull of its main battle tank after 40 years of service is beyond absurd.
cough HSTV-L, M1128 (x2), XM1060 (best ADS in game), 4 variants of the XM8/AGS prototypes, a Turkish M60 (a bastardization of the SLEP), the Israel Dor-Dalet (Israel doesn’t even get this variant), the OH-58D (I can only find a very select few units fielding these 100M USD relics), a prototype AH-64 (who doesn’t need 4?), and… The MBT-70, which seemingly has 2 existing unfinished prototypes.
Do you have any of those prototype variants in-game? No? Thought so.
Yes but the imported thermals were superior to local prodcution, so in a way him claiming that they cant produce the thermals they used to use is correct.
Jokes aside I can’t believe they used the suspension as an excuse like there wouldn’t be modifications that wouldn’t be made to account for the extra 20kg/m.