Of course viable domestic designs should have priority in any case.
Yeah its selectively realistic
Potato potahto, point is that Gaijin balances those differences in other BRs without resorting to selective realism as main balancing tool
Idk about that. Seems like people are quite annoyed with the amount of selective realism going on at top tier.
Well i do believe that differencess between Leopard 1, T-55 and Type 74 are abysmall in terms of whistanding shots that penetrated armor. Much unlike difference between T-72 and M1 or Leo 2.
So again, im all for the BR balance, but that leaves the question of if we want to have 2 top tier tanks and bunch of their copypaste, or we do want the uniqueness of the tanks at top tier payed by several compromises
Most people call everything bias when its not in their favour, and protect the bias when its for their favour. So yes, they are annoyed, but for no reason
Thats the question everyone needs to answer for themselves. I personally think that faithful representation is more important for the game and balance needs to be constructed around that in some way.
It does have a reason tho. People want realistic vehicles. And of course youre going to be more annoyed by it if youre on the side that doesnt get artifical pampering but only artifical kneecapping
And i belive the other way. Realism shoudnt stand before balance, especially when its already pretty realistic
But thats the issue. How realistic or unrealistic is fine and when does it become arbitrary. Other balancing factors can be bent and changed however Gaijin wants. Realism has a breaking point
My reasoning behind Russian tanks being the most survivable has its reasons.
With the current state of the game, the majority of western tanks, if not one shotted, lose their ability to be able to fight with mainly losing turret rotation and the engine/track so youre guaranteed death, at least if its frontally.
Meanwhile, with russian tanks, due to the ridiculus inconsistency with them you can only guarantee a one shot kill from side shot or through the drivers port frontally. With the driver port being such a small target to hit when someones moving, majority of players will just go for LFP. The lower front plate is such an inconsisten shot since ive had times were it goes through, autoloader eats the spall and ignores everything else then takes the engine. But with the autoloader being taken, if they have a round loaded they can respond instantly and shoot straight back and disable/kill you. and dont get me started on how busted on the armour around russian breaches that mean if you dont have top rounds its very inconsistent to pen.
Especially with MBTS i very very rarely get ammo detonations even if spall or the shot goes straight through against russian tanks. Only time io ever do is with autocannons and even then if they are at any sort of angle than around 80-100 degrees from where youre looking its the most inconsistent thing in the game to pen.
Its not an issue, its a game designer’s desicion tho
If such happends yes, but in many other situations?
they only loose the turret which leads to them moving back with ENORMOUS reverse mobility, and then reparing.
Like this
which you basically CANT guarantee with NATO side machinery. Especially side shots.
it may be small, but it is a center mass. Most of the shots come there.
It hardly dependent on height difference, but mostly its fuel tank explosion.
Same as if you were aiming at the enemy and got turret basket damaged, you can still shoot, and even reload.
Its a gamble with T-90M only. Others just dont have any armor around the breech. I mean, M735 is enough to pen it easilly.
It can be both.
eeeh, not so much.