There is zero way to counter how unreliable (and unrealistic) HESH shells are in this game
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I really can’t comment on HESH realism…as i don’t know.
What i do know is that i don’t think the FV4005 gun to be more inconsistent that most other guns…particularly other brit guns.
When i fire at a target and hit a “vulnerable” spot i get “ricochet” or “non penetration” or “only damage” a lot with lots of different guns…Fv4005 is not in my memory (which has increasing faults with age) as particularly weak.
I have more “bad memories” from 2pdr and 6pdr guns…back in the day…
As a side note…non-HESH guns sometimes fail to penetrate even if fired with green sights…HESH guns will usually get red sights (as they dont really penetrate) but FV4005 will kill targets even with red sight.
TO BE CLEAR…i dont think FV4005 is a good vehicle…but i see it as just another glass canon…low armor, good-ish gun and slow reload. I use it as 3rd vehicle on a lineup…and there are far worse. As an EXAMPLE…Russian armored SPGs (i.e SU152) annoy me more as they also have slow reload and the added armor does not compensate the issues with aiming and mobility. TDs are often harder to use…
I can tell you that HESH is flat out wrong in every way. I’ve done bug reports using RARDE reports on it’s capabilities before and posess footage of the FV4005s 183mm gun shooting a tank. The wonky penetration in game overall is only a slight problem with the shell as the physical damage is next to non existent in comparison to it’s true punch, as well as normal spall a “scab” of plate should be breaking off the inside of the armour (roughly the diameter of the shell) and turning pretty much everything in it’s path into paste, unfortunately I’m away from my pc at the moment so can’t show the photos of what was left of a tiger 2 after being hit by a 165mm AVRE shell there wasn’t much left in one piece after a hit, not to mention the hole blown through it
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Remember it lost to the Kv-2
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Only because HESH is non functioning in game. If it was accurate I’m not joking it would likely be a 7.7 vehicle as it would be capable of blowing any tank in half, even modern mbts would likely have their hulls disfigured or cracked from a frontal hit
I have been taken out one shot by the thing at 6.7 recently .I was in one of those Italian Fiats. How I didn’t see the lumbering great beast I will never know.Its just a big sniper’s rifle.
If the plate it hits is sub 180mm, there should just be an enormous hole there, yet somehow I hit an M26’s UFP and only get the machine gunner…
I believe you…but this happens also with 88mm guns (as an example) which are also not supposed to only damage an optical module or go trough trucks without making damage…
I dont really know if the stats are correct or not…but
- Lots of shots on lots of different guns seem to do much less that it would seem “logical”
- It goes both ways
- When i fire the gun on FV4005 i am not particularly afraid of the results…(not more than when firing APHE guns)
- I do dislike the reload and manoeuvrability…but guess it fits the BR (give or take 0.3)
Basically, the correct way to play it is you simply don’t.
why gajin was nerfed HESH and gajin go reviewed the hesh please.
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I’m fed up to the point that when I play this shell I want to kill myself
There is no proper way. Its mean to be a powerful tank destroyer that sacrifices armor, mobility and reload to get to one shot any vehicle on the battlefield, but the thing is, it doesn’t. With proper aim it can one shot consistently just as well as any other gun around its br with like 10x faster reload, so the fact that it isn’t always oneshotting (which it should, even if the spalling doesn’t kill all the crew 20kg of hesh should structurally destroy any vehicle) makes it completely redundant.
you are totally right for example the fv it is slow no armor and we almost never finish in one shot even an average tank is that in real life it was made to destroy is 3 is that in the game we don’t even get a one shot of simple tiger 1. So YEAH GAJIN PLEASE responded to our request and please make the hesh be like 2 ago.
PLEASE IN THE NEXT BIG UPDATE PLEASE and a lot of people want the hesh to go back to how it was before there is no longer anyone who plays the hesh tanks and a lot of people have lost hope that one day they will see the hesh from before again (2 years ago).
Played it twice today and got 4 frags both times, it can do well when in the right spot however such a spot is almost never the reality, nor are you doing the damage you should.
not just destroy, wipe off the face of the earth
To make the matter even worse, you already get strafed by stupid planes before even get to first off your first shot. Even if you don’t die and you lost two crews, and your reload timer is now >1 min, might as well just J out
you’re totally right even the is4 is maus should be pulverized but you think gajin are going to do anything about it?
In theory it would kill the T90 just from cracking the hull out of force
you have right but in the game we can’t kill a tiger 1 xd
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