If all tanks were modeled with spall liners yes it’d be quite an entertaining shift in balance rather than the one shot CoD gameplay the game has become.
Unfortunately Gaijin is incapable of self control and rather wait until they’ve efficiently researched spall liners for all Rank VII / VIII tanks they decided shiny new update new Russian tank must have spall liners because it’s the first Russian tank to every gain spall liners.
Now we’ve been haphazardly given spall liners for random NATO tanks leaving multiple nation’s top tier MBTs completely outclassed.
That they need to “research” NATO tanks having spall liners when they’ve been standard design since the M60 / Leopard 1 is a perfect example of Gaijin using “realism” as an excuse to make the game unbalanced.
They chose to release the feature half baked. It’s a necessary feature for the health of the game that should have already been implemented long ago. Now that it’s finally here hopefully in 6 months they’ll have managed to properly implement it.
Quite exactly. Fuel tanks were modeled to absorb 100% of spalling for all tanks. There’s a specific nation that uses extremely poorly placed interior fuel tanks which Gaijin happens to turn in to spall liners.
This goes all the way to the T-34s. You’ve been fighting spall liners since fuel tanks were modeled to absorb spall, they’re just never placed haphazardly except for one specific nation.
Spall liners are not a “new” thing to War Thunder. This will eventually balance NATO / Russia win rates.
@CrispyCornflake
What are you talking about?
T-90M is the only tank that doesn’t spall for Soviets.
T-80BVM never had a spall liner & still does not have one.
They do absorb spall IRL, however small ones like on Leopard 2s are simply not enough. The wall between fuel tanks and compartment is what does the job there.
T-80 BVM was never this bad , leopards right now dominate , huge spacious interior with garbage spall means they are extremely survivable, to the point of being broken
Honestly its more interesting in cases like the Centurion and Abrams where one would expect the fuel tank to absorb spall, which it does, but then the clever armor designers decided to put armor behind the fuel tank, or thick enough structural steel (17mm on centurion, where the threshold for palling is between 15 and 17mm) at which point it generates a lot of spall
In the case of Warthunder additions, it is. Or in the case of modified vehicles adding compartments like the Centurion, where idk if the extra 17mm structural steel plate has a spall liner
Well idk what their intentions were previously, but its very understandable that they didn’t for so long. Their awful way of implementing it isn’t great either.
Im more annoyed with their arbitrary cutoff in regards to spalling very clearly being at the detriment of some nations and others not so much.
For the sourcing standards of Gaijin it is. Abrams of often referenced as having a spall liner. Good luck getting appropriate material to push that suggestion. I know its not easy because of how long that thread is before they were successful