Obj 279 can’t point and click everything it sees, it struggles to pen the M60A1 apart from the cupola and sometimes the turret ring, and because it uses a full calliber 130mm shell, volumetric just says no to you when go for weak spots.
105mm DM23 can reliable pen the Obj. 279 front up to 1km killing the driver and destroying it’s engine,
sometimes it can also one tap it depeding on the angle.
Obj. 279 does not have an auto loader, it has a assisted loading mechanism, killing the loader messes up with the reload like every normal tank.
Nope… you have 50/50 change to go through it, and even a slightly angle makes it almost impossible to pen. Also i’m talking about the M60A1 not the M60 with reduced armor thickness.
It’s a pain to fight because it has a good gun and most MBTs at it’s BR don’t have any armor
But you can always shoot it’s gun
And take your time to shoot those weakspots, without having to flank it
Obviously you’ll want to just shoot the weakspots and kill it that way, without having to shoot the gun. But if your tank struggles, shooting the gun is usually a “I win” button.
This is true.
I’m currently spading TTS at 9.0 and had a couple of 1v1 fights against 279s, and at least in those engagements, they struggled to go through my UFP.
I’m not looking at it from down hill. In the protection analysis we are shooting at the M60A1 as if it were just a few meters from us.
At 100 meters while at ground level the shell trajectory is different and impacts the tank in a different way.
Obj. 279’s shell is not a point and click adventure like everyone likes to say, it loves to ricochet at 63º and gets messed up by volumetric very often because of it’s full bore shell, causing it to non-pen extremely easy shots compared to APFSDS and late APDS.
These are my statistics, object 279 in Realistic Battles.
The site takes into account tank statistics only for those players who are registered on it and now this site actually does not work.
Unfortunately, this tank is only strong at the top, but most battles when this tank was at 8.7 took place at 9.0, 9.3 and tanks of this battle rating had no problems destroying 279.
It was very fun to meet Merkavas, German T-72s and Leopards with KPZ-70, apparently the players on these tanks play so badly that the poor suffered from 279 which is lower in the battle rating.
Now this tank is constantly fighting against tanks of the future and has become unplayable.
It’s not a matter of who plays which nation of the tank, it’s a matter of the weak skill of the players themselves who, on a tank higher in the battle rating, don’t know how to destroy 279 and then cry on the forum.
For example, me on the Pz.4 G - statistics are 1 in 5 and 80+% victories and that now this tank can also be considered imbalanced?
Moreover, 279 is not so often found on the enemy team.
And speaking of IQ, look at your game stats.
It’s not surprising that you have problems destroying tanks in the game and Object 279 even more so.
In the old battle rating, this tank always played at the bottom or middle of the list, that is, 9.0, 9.3 and 1-2 battles at the top of the list.
And now he plays non-stop at a battle rating of 10.0.
By making changes to the battle ratings, the developers destroyed the most playable battle rating 9.0 - 8.7.
Now that’s a huge skill issue lol, the AVRE has enormous weakspots everywhere.
The M60 is hard to pen ok.
2 things :
1- That’s one tank that’s hard to pen. If you have problems to pen other tanks with the 279, learn to play it.
2- Even if it did have some penetration problems, welcome to a game about tanks. Tanks have armour. Try to play the EBR 51, the Jumbo or any solid shot shooter facing soviet tanks and then we’ll talk
Maybe, but there was a squishy swedish ATGM carrier to my side and I got trolled by volumetric armor overlap on the AVRE. Ofc the swede pushed me after the Avre did pretty much no damage at all to me. Respawned but the whole enemy team was already rushing our spawn and hiding between wrecks.
And two my defence, I had two, maybe three okay matches in the 279. In my last one (on Golden Quarry) I got slightly over 1900 score and died once right at the end of the match. Bad shot, only got the enemy driver and started a fire, he got my breech and I got pushed from behind as well.
At some point of time I think this tank was indestructible, but now its uptiered every time I try to play it. Its not worth its price, there are way better tanks in low tiers like KV-220 that are really insane. All tanks on 8.3-9.3 can go through this tank and its filled with ammo, so its either you penn it and it just explode or you dont and you dont have any chance against it. Hard to balance that.
