ToS violation, you know. Expect to see the account banned.
279, which has always been a beast mode tank, and always will be - has just received yet another major buff with the latest BR changes. If you play the 279, you would know that the only thing that worries you is to be stuck on a team full of 10.0 Turms premiums manned by low-level newbies. Now that is no more. All hail the king, the Object 279. Free of premium players bringing its team down.
Ah yes, it saw decompression like ANY 9.0-9.3 tank, very OP
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You misunderstood my comment, but good job. The only thing holding back the 279 was its own team. Nothing it actually faced. 279 is my most used tank, I’m not someone crying about it being OP. I’m just enjoying not having to have people in Turms on my team, anymore. It’s a major buff, to one of the best tanks of that entire BR bracket. Tanks at 9.3 still have to put up with those premium players in the many uptiers they’ll be getting.
Played a lot yesterday have gotten barely any of full uptiers, most of them if were uptiers were 9.7-10.0 uptiers.
Also checked 10.7 to see for any downtiers, have only been getting full uptiers.
It’s not a buff, it’s a decompression practically everyone at 9.0-9.3 saw, that’s my point.
It’s rather a nerf of 10.0-10.3 and after that that they wont get to bully 9.0-9.3 tanks constantly.
Took it out today after not playing for weeks, most matches are 120sp which is 9.7, and only one full downtier lol even have one match that went 0-1 because I forgot how to lead APHE as I forgot how quickly are APFSDS.
I know what it is, I’m saying that the 279 is going to benefit more than any other vehicle that is decompressed. Sure, it will help tanks like the T-62M1, who were suffering under compression, but many of these shouldn’t have been 9.0 to begin with, and it won’t help them too much even now. I agree about 10.0-10.3, but Soviet 10.0-10.3 always was getting bullied by Britain 10.3 and others, so normal for them.
The only sad point is that they’ve broken the 279/BMP3/BMD4 line-up. Am slotting in IT-1 to replace it for now. With the BR changes, my 9.0 Soviet line-up is:
279, BMP3, MiG-17AS, T-62M1 (hardly ever use this), IT-1, PT-76-57 (one of the best battlepass vehicles they’ve ever put in the game), Mi-24A, Mi-8TV (never use, but have an empty slot).
I guess people were (obviously) just doing much better in BMD4 than they were in BMP3. I do like the extra mobility and quicker firing ATGM, but I still enjoy the BMP3 more. It takes more of a hit (as much as one can expect in an IFV that isn’t a Puma), and gets more ATGM overall. I’m honestly surprised they haven’t moved the BMP3 up to 9.3, though - if they think BMD4 warrants an increase.
Did they changed how APHE works? now it took me 2-3 shots to kill TAMs even when it’s a direct hit to the turret cheek, don’t remember they surviving any turret shot from the 130mm but today it feels a little off, now that TAMs has an easier time killing me than I could kill it. Goddamn
Yes, they did. APHE has been reworked. It isn’t like the nuclear bomb it once was. But it is more reliable in other ways, you just just need to take more care with where you hit than before. It’s for all APHE, not just 279’s 130mm. Edit: I just assumed they were added already, they’re probably not. Something just feels different.
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Yeah, i played about 10 games last night and i got a couple 8.7, one 8.3, but most games were 9.3 and above. My typical kill list included 9.3’s like the T-72, Begleit, and other 9.3-10.0.
(Got a few 14.5mm kills against Begleit’s and Tams last night, which is always funny).
Time for me to revisit tank polygon, don’t know how to kill it anymore, the engine blocks is part I always hit when >700m, because the sight zoom sucks big time its easy to miss the weakspot.
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Yeah, it can be annoying - sometimes the light vehicles will survive your shot and the more armored tanks die much more easily. I typically aim to nuke their gun crew these days, so if they survive they can’t put up much of a fight afterwards. Good ol’ APHE to the turret cheeks is always nice.
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Where the heck are you getting this, as far as I know they havent done this. They tested it on the dev server, but it hasnt been implemented and the vote hasnt come up yet.
APHE def is not the same as it used to be. Use the 279 and you’ll know. If it isn’t those proposed changes, then it must be something else. One of their 1000th hull-break changes, probably. All I know is, I’ve been using the 279 since I ground it out in the event and the APHE is not working like it used to. Just got out of a game where a Rooikat just survived a shell that would have nuked it 99% of the time not too long ago.
Citation Needed™
Source: Playing the game, not trolling on the forum. Try it.
Dont have the 279.
Anyway, I’m not even going to argue about it. Happy to concede I’m wrong if the latest APHE changes haven’t been implemented. But something feels different, that’s for sure. 279 is still doing what it always does, so I’m not complaining too much. Just some light vehicles needing an extra hit or two before they die.
Might be overpen maybe?
I think BMD-4 got upBRed like it should have been, BMP-3 is definitely not such flank breaker like BMD-4.
Although I do wish they would fix BMP-3, as currently it lacks IRST it has IRL and lacks anything to help load ATGMs with (IRL theres either autoloader or assistance loader which makes you only need to ram missile in instead of loading it yourself. That way ATGM reload wouldnt be around 30 sec with default crew but would be more like 15 seconds with assistance loader or 10 seconds with autoloader)
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