I’m not sure how to feel about this. I do not really like copypaste and it’s not something that germany really needs but it’s kinda important from historical standpoint and it would be better alternative to Panther plus it looks cool with this box.
It possibly would be good pick for squadron vehicles but I’m not fan of how squadron vehicle mechanic works.
Personaly I would like to see more german stuff first and then more GDR vehicles.
But yeah +1 from me.
I get where you’re coming from, but let’s be honest, Gaijin started this whole situation by adding East German vehicles to the German tech tree in the first place. If they’ve started it, they might as well finish it properly.
As for the “copy-paste” argument, if this tank copies anything, it’s closest in performance to the Chinese T-34-85 Gai, which is currently the best T-34-85 in the game. It features a 61 km/h top speed and electric turret traverse, both of which this East German variant has. On top of that, this specific KPz T-34-85M could potentially bring HEAT shells and smoke bombs, features the Chinese version lacks.
If you actually read through the full suggestion, you’d see that just because it has “T-34” in the name doesn’t make it a simple copy-paste. That said, I do agree that Gaijin has a bad habit of slapping different decals on base models and calling it a day. But this isn’t that.
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I agree, I just think GJ should prioritize german designs unless there is gap in TT that could be filled with something else.
I get it that its not just another T-34, problem is it looks almost exactly like tanks we already have in other TT’s and it would play very similarly despite differences. But most important is that soviets would also have this tank minus cosmetics (depending of how GJ would implement it). I believe that all of this combined would make this a copy paste, maybe not as blatantly as other examples but still.
I really hope that if added, it comes with the HEAT shells to really differentiate it from other T-34-85s.
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It won’t, even with turbo good HEAT it will be better to just use regular AP-nuke shell. You can pen vast majority of tanks from the front and even then you have fast tank, its easy to outflank more armored tanks.
Biggest difference will be that flanking will be bit easier and it will be bit harder to kill you from front.