Playing mainly germany WW2 tanks, it getting more and more beyond frustration.
90% of time im getting frontally killed by either fantasy ww2 ammo (see fun fact above) or way more by tanks which were produced way after WW2.
My question is:
What is the balancing approach for this tank?
Mostly, especially at further distances i can not pen the enemies, while they one-shot me.
I understand that Gaijin is making most money with these tanks, but facing non-existing opponents from historical point of view is simply wrong.
Playing vs late ww2 soviet heavies makes fun and is challenging. Playing vs WW2 fantasy nations like Sweden, France, Israel etc is simply a fun killer.
What exactly are you struggling with playing one if not the best heavy tank at 6.7 with the best gun for the BR? Especially at range when your armor gets even better
If its a problem that you are not invincible from the front to every tank you face and you can just stand there looking down roads while being invincible from the front like a lot of german tds (jagdpz 4, Jagdtiger, Jagdpanther to a lot of stuff) in a heavy tank that has one relatively small weakspot that you just shouldnt show to the enemies without moving then idk what to tell you
How do you think much worse tanks at this or similar br fare agains king tigers? Italy has a m26a1 as the only medium OR heavy tank at the same br. Same for france but which has the very good amx m4 at 7.0 to save it from the absolutely abysmal m26 experience. GB has literally nothing at 6.7 and playing anything close to it gets sucked up facing Germanys and US insane 6.7 lineups. Japan has two medium tanks with heat fs and nothing with any resemblance of armor except for one TD (HO-RI prot).
Youre playing one of the strongest heavy tanks at that BR/in the game and struggling with how to play it while most other nations (except maybe the US with the m26e5 and T29) have nothing comparable. Surely facing nations with much worse tanks having options of 3 or 4 tanks in your lineup that are frontally unpennable playing germany 6.7 would be an awesome idea for gameplay…put 1 king tiger staring down any sightlane on any map (that takes 3 of them) then maybe the people complaining about being shot in their king tigers turret face while sitting still staring into the sky could finally break 50% win rate?
This is the beast. Though, my baby will pen a KT frontally with ease (M6A2E1). And others that can donk a KT through the turret with ease (such as the T-34-100) can also be deleted with ease by the KT. It’s a good lesson for all players to learn. Whether you’re playing KT, Maus, Object279, whatever, never blindly put faith in your armour. Play as if you have none. Don’t just charge at the enemy thinking you’re T-1000.
Anyway, what OP is not factoring is the unrealistic circumstances (inb4 panther in Cologne) we’re operating in WT. It allows much easier access to the KT’s turret cheeks.
Yeah, the only nation that can rival germany at this BR or 7.0 is US which is possibly even stronger. Anyone else is seriously disadvantaged and most likely playing the br for one or two vehicles uptiering a their rest of the lineup. Obviously that means that half of the german 6.7 lineup needs to be frontally unpennable then. like wtf.
FV 4005 is slow af, has 0 turret armor, 0 gun depression and a reload of half an eternity with one of the most unreliable rounds in game. if that shit cant bonk a king tiger once every 60 seconds while showing its massive paper turret what else is it good for?^^ Should be good for taking out big and heavily armoured threats, but it will never be game deciding with that gun handling, reload and mobility. Sure you can bonk a king tiger once every 30 seconds but as soon as theres more than one enemy pushing you (any enemy basically, even 4.0 stuff pens your turret easily) youre dead when ur alone. The king tiger can kill almost everything frontally every 8 seconds with still decent mobility and gun handling while having some of the strongest armor at the BR. Its no competition
Sure, but what I said still stands. It’s a fun vehicle to play. It’s a non-meta situational vehicle. I bring out Britain 6.3 just to use it. I’m not saying it’s better or more meta than the KT, just saying that Britain has the tools to deal with the KT and not to feel too sorry for Britain. Though, I’m more an AVRE man. Anyway, to me, USA has the strongest 6.7 line-up, followed by Germany (but I play 7.0 for the KT 10.5). I can’t even use the normal KT, since the 10.5 has personality.
Playing non meta stuff is more fun and lets you do stuff that you normally can’t anyhow. But its actually baffling when people then complain that one of the most meta vehicles in the entire game can be penned frontally.
AVRE rules i love it too. Then again, poor king tiger might be struggling with penning it from range. While you need to be a ballistic god to even hit him from more than 500 m away. With a shell that even a t72 could manage to dodge in reverse. But its incredibly fun in cqc. If only the reload was a bit better
The Tiger 2 is excellent. Like all heavy tanks it’s vulnerable to HEAT spammers at it’s BR and is weaker in uptiers but it’s still incredibly serviceable, with acceptable mobility and a great gun.
Agreed. They’re in for a rude awakening when they go and play an unstabilised Leopard 1 at 8.0 that gets melted by autocannon spammers such as the Falcon frontally. In fact, OP doesn’t know how good he has it right now.
Yeah, I’d love if those people would start making videos and play off meta nations. If tiger 2 is so bad grind solid ap Great Britain, 0 lineup japan, the at-2-brs-oh so op sweden (and its not op at 6.7), israel (which even I dont have the mental strength to touch and i did stupid brainmelting grinds in this game) or no stab till 9.3 france. Cmon, people, if everything else is that strong go on, grind it, play it, ill watch it.
All that oh so op stuff (well most of it) is free to play, but doing that would actually give people the realization that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side and as (almost) all thing in this game, basically everything also has drawbacks.
Edit: BTW what was you most annoying or most painful grind in wt? Like tech tree, vehicle stock grind whatever? I bet it wasnt the king tiger
Yup. You see this often with the ‘Russian bias’ topics, where many of those complaining about them have never actually played the vehicles in question. Their entire experience comes from facing them, so they have no idea about what drawbacks that vehicle has, how much player skill is involved, and so on. The best thing you can do in this game is not be a one-nation-wonder, for sure.
I have ground out the air tree by just playing the Ayit. I love that jet. But I’ve neglected the ground tree because it’s just M48/M60 Magach spam for much of it, and I’m more of a quirky non-MBT man. I would say that’s the most painful grind, being stuck with a tree full of boring vehicles, lol.
This. Yeah sure you can be clapped by strong t34s or kv1s in low tier that have better armor layouts, rushed by t80s which bounce a lot of snapshots when they rush you. Sucks. But you sure praise the lord you don’t play them and their terrible reverse/gun depression on hilly maps. The stuff that kills me is always OP because im oh so good. Completely neglecting that maybe I just fked up, did a stupid play (which everyone does) or just sat in a stupid position for too long. I feel like a lot of people complaining on the forum about this one vehicle they somehow struggle with are just caught in a death loop of being addicted to a game where all you do is shoot at each other and explode, but they cant handle getting shot at. Its really weird
Yeah that especially sounds not very appealing, playing mostly the same 2 vehicles all the way to top/high tier.