That doesn’t mean they didn’t reinforce other areas to compensate as the blow-off panels are most likely a requirement for combat vehicles. In addition to deleting the blow out panels, they extended the hull casting and modified the rear bulkhead to fit the autoloader.
reason usa vs usa in air is because 90% of the player population plays USA air. You read that right, 1 nation makes up 90% of the playerbase in air.
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Agreed, the point I’m trying to make to Necron is that it’s very likely that the M1 hulls were modified to some degree. We can assume that it was made to be more rigid. It’s a possibility the hull armor was increased as well. Necron swears that the measurements taken by Gaijin and from the CAATB program are true for every Abrams to current time.
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I’d like to see more of US vs US in game as well. It gets tiring playing against mostly Russia or Germany
Fair.
And it’s not even a very likely, it’s a known fact. Look up Congressional budget expenditures on M1 hulls throughout the 90s and 2000s.
Only reason we can’t get Gaijin to permit thicker armor is because no one except Lima knows precisely the make-up of the internals, and nobody would tell those unless they want a prison sentence.
Edit: To wit, Necrons is incorrect in his assertions that all hulls remained precisely the same.
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Why doesn’t 90% of the playerbase do so for Germany and Sweden in Ground?
I can’t tell you why 90% of the air playerbase chooses to play USA only.
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Probably because each nation is varied and interesting enough, while also being strong enough to compete with Swedish handholding. Nothing competes with America at top tier air besides maybe Japan with their F-15(M).
Less generously, it might be because for the average 0.6-0.7kd monkey, it doesn’t matter what nation they choose to play; they will always be trash.
It’s tough when you have a huge player base using premium tanks with a glaring fault in the armor to have a good k/d ratio. Most people who have experience with this game picked US as their first nation and they’re on their 2nd or 3rd nation. More than likely they picked a nation with a meta tank such as Sweden or Germany and just play that all day. So you have a buncha new players using a tank with broken armor vs veterans with the best armor playing vs eachother. If the armor of the M1 was fixed, the good US players would have some cannon fodder that could last for more than one shot take up some of the slack.
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‘‘Maybe this, maybe that.’’ and no actual proof being provided for anything.
This isn’t going anywhere particularly productive, it’s fine if you want to speculate on if’s and maybe’s, but I’m not getting much out of it.
I’ll leave it here.
Every nation has these issues now, except france, thanks to gaijin pushing the 11.X premium shit. It’s not a crutch for poor individual performance.
That’s the problem with you, I claim something is fact by showing you non-direct evidence and I’m wrong. I make hypothetical guesses with sound reasoning behind it and I’m wrong. So go on and live your life without thinking for yourself but being spoon-fed the information you’re allowed to think.
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Not every nation has an equal amount of it.
It’s more apparent in US since that’s the introduction to the game to many new players. I’m certainly not denying it happens with other nations as well.
I mean, that is very flimsy evidence to stand on. ‘Hypothetical guesses with sound reasoning’ is also very fucking flimsy. Anyone who’s taken a college-level debate class knows how to destroy this kind of argumentation.
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Did you at least read the prior posts or did you just base what you said off this last statement?
Anybody with some intelligence should know that you don’t make uneducated guesses then try to make others make educated assessments using only observable facts to change your uneducated guess. In other words, gaijin can’t add vehicles they don’t know anything about then ask the community to do the work of giving them declassified observable facts and documents to change the thing that wasn’t based on declassified observable facts to begin with.
There’s actually proof of the hull armor being upgraded, it’s the new frontal armor/armor package that was rolled out in 2006 (coincidentally, the year the limits on DU hulls were removed).
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I didn’t say you were wrong, I said you’re just speculating at this point and that you don’t provide any solid sources to back up your speculation.
You’re giving me nothing to work with here, I’m just sitting here listening to you go: ‘‘Maybe this happened, I dunno. Maybe that happened too, not sure though’’.
I did actually. I’ve been reading this argument for the last hour.