Dude’s post is out here indirectly calling 3BM60 among the weakest darts.
Calling 600 - 750+ mm of armor “weakest” when M1A1 AIM, Leclerc, Ariete, Merkava Mk4, Type 10, and Challenger 2s all have weaker armor than ZTZ99A and VT-4.
No tanks have non-exploding carousels either.
No tanks have dart-absorbing ERA on the side.
T-80BVM sized weakspots while not ideal is not as bad as you’re portraying.
DTC10-125 is among the weakest Darts. It only has 570mm of penetration with an 7.1 Second long Reload. Other Nations Tank have not just Darts with almost a hundred more penetration but also multiple seconds faster Reload…at the same BR. Or in case of France which i saw has slightly weaker APFSDS than the DTC10-125 they at least got among the fastest Reload and gun depression…and yknow a whooping six 12BR MBTs…Chinas entire 12BR Line Up isn’t even that large lol.
About the Armour continue reading. Also M1A1 AIM is 11.7 not 12BR. The front Armour of the ZTZ99A also doesn’t matter at all due to reasons i arleady gave. And it is not as high as you say it is because Gaijin nerfed it in-Game from what it has IRL.
And also theres multiple bug reports some almost two years old…of the Armour being bugged on 99A/VT4A1 and they haven’t fixed it. You can penetrate an angled VT4A1 at the UFP with DM33…
This has been discussed and posted about dozens of time
Happens quite often too…DM53 right into Side of T-90M / T-80BVM. Enjoy the ERA absorbing 99% of it and the Dart not even managing to pass through the Spall Liner after that. I even had an TURMS LFP ERA tank my 2A4s APFSDS in a Match. Its not working correctly.
Just going to link this here
The Chinese MBTs are by a long-shot the worst 12BR MBTs in the Game and multiple professional Players have called them out to be so as well multiple times like BPA_Jon or Cavenub or a few German Players i watch all agree on that they suck and aren’t anywhere close to the Level of other 12BR MBTs.
No tank uses flat armor at top BR as main armor.
DTC-10 125 has 664mm of penetration at 60 degrees: 332mm RHA steel plate /cos 60 = 664.
Which is inconsequentially different from 3BM60’s 668mm of pen at 60 degrees 100 meters:
OFL F1 is 664mm, the same pen as 3BM60 and DTC-10.
m/95/M332 [Merkava Mk3s and Strv 122s] is 678, a 14mm difference.
L27A1 [Challenger 2s] is 652mm, 12mm less.
USA’s M829A2 is 726mm, which is 62mm more pen, not 100.
Who cares if T-80BVM’s and ZTZ99A’s weakspots are larger than VT-4’s and T-90M’s? There’s still a chance they don’t hit those areas.
The only rounds objectively better than DTC-10 are M829A2, DM53, and M338. And all of them will still bounce off of the turret cheeks of VT-4.
I’ve seen zero videos of ERA absorbing ammo, and I’ve never had ERA absorb my rounds.
Relikt only has 54mm of protection against kinetic rounds, and that’s the best ERA the Soviet tech tree has.
ZTZ99A is a top ten MBT. There are at least 5 MBTs worse than it in other tech trees if not more.
Also you claimed it’s 11.3 capable, so me bringing up a potentially under-BR’d 11.7 is valid.
Finaly someone have sayed that type tank are just worst then the nato variant almost by default in game and the only one kinda close is the bvm but for real chinese tank are just worst russian one. Leo 2a5 is 12 and not 11.7 just becajse the abrams player are known to be ineficent “lets call them this”
I find it balanced (chally 3 at 11.7 if to funny also)
Why would u take 2a5 when u can take 2a6?
2A6 is the same thing but ugly, and there’s no situation where the muzzle velocity difference matters.
Lol what?
It look nearly the same and it has dm53 woth its full capability like 2a7
Nothing beats the Leo 2K in terms of sexiness. But hey, to each his own
In terms of looks, Abrams and Merkavas both get mogged big time by the Leopard 2 variants, both in looks and performance, also looks matter because playing ugly tanks seems harder because staring at ugly things gets you feeling irritated and uncomfortable. It is what it is, some nations just don’t know how to design things that both looks good and also performs, there is nothing anybody can do about it lol
Out of the bunch only the Merkava is good looking due to not having some cringe assymetrical torsion bar suspension.
Disagree on merkava m4 and merkava 2d and 3d
The rest of the merkavas are ugly i agree and abrams are mid
But its all about taste in the end
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In game yea
Holy yapping
the hate towards a specific nation in the subtext is clear btw and u can say whatever u want but merk m4 is among the best looking mbts if not the best
Still missing half its armor litterally
Your taste is special bro merkavas 4 literally look like an depressed obese person who let himself go and one day he accidentally sits on his iphone it becomes an ipad.
Its for balance purposes.
They need to increase the highest BR. Put MBTs such as the Leopard 2A5+ at for example 13-14BR and then the ZTZ99A/VT4A1 can be one below that and Russias somewhere inbetween. As of now at ~11.3 they would be to strong but anything higher they are way to weak now both individually and available Line Up you get.
The 2A5/6/PSO are just fine at 12.0, 10.7s shouldn’t be facing them.
I have very clasic taste
Merkava look like a futuristic tank with cool angles
Its big but with good proportion of hull-turret
Merkava is up there with leo for sure
Yes. Imo the Leopard 2A5/A6 need to be put higher in BR. Make the highest BR something around 13-14 instead of 12 and put the Leopards there with PSO/2A7V maybe 0.3 higher than 2A5/2A6 but MBTs like the ZTZ99A should be around 13BR then, they are nowhere near of being equal with the Leopards or other Nations MBT. Its the worst 12BR MBT in-Game maybe except Ariete but even with that you are more likely survive due to the additional Crewmember and can get rly quick Reload with better Darts. Chinas MBT are just utter garbage compare to others…they could be better but Gaijin since each of those addition deciding to nerf them but still put them at same BR as something like an 2A7V
The first 8 or so responses to this thread said pretty much everything you need to hear about this issue.