As the title suggests I think this unique tank that I played and also never had any problems facing should go to 3.0 RB rating. Right now it’s uncompetitive and constantly faces cannons that can easily kill it from the front, combined with it’s 30+ second reload that make all it’s characteristics useless. If it would go to 3.0 it will face in a full downtier players that would need to either flank and get close and shoot from the side, like the US 37mm light tanks, or switch to a specialized shell like HEAT or APCR to shoot it from the front (German/Italian short 75mm or 50mm). This would really make it fun to play and to face. I don’t understand why it should be treated as a forgotten meme tank when the armour could balance out the long reload with a lower battle rating.
Ive had some fun games in a full downtier, but other than that ya it has a gigantic weakspot that makes it barely competitive against tanks at its own BR.
The reload is so long that it makes it maybe one of the most unfun tanks in the game to play. 3.3 would probably be fine, 3.0 is a bit much.
I’ve said 3.0 and not 3.3 because that would lower the chances of getting an uptier and would give the possibility of not meeting German and Japanese 75mm that can one shot it…It has no business being the same BR as a Panzer IV G
Having the longest reload time even at ace crew level is not very fun, KV-2 is a very niche vehicle and this situation isn’t very good with the KV-2 (1939) as it doesn’t have any machine gun compared to the KV-2 (1940) which is a event Marketplace vehicle.
I wish Gaijin could add the (far from what I know) only working KV-2 which is a huge Frankenstein Monster between a KV-2 MT-2 turret (if I’m not wrong) and a IS-2 chassis, it would incredibly reduce the weakspots but certainly would be placed at a higher battle rating.
idk man ive found it to be pretty decent, although this is coming over from using the FV4005 so the armour feels amazing
Reload is a “balance factor”, so everything should just have a 5 second reload, then we can concentrate on important stuff…
There is no way a tank with 40 seconds reload timer can be competitive, like fv4005 will still be the same if we drop it down to 2.7 as it will get kill by everything there. Kv-2 might be better because it at least has armor lol
They already did this since the vehicle in game has none of its problems:
Holy cow balancing. Ideally, all vehicles should be completely identical and only differ in their skin. And that’s exactly what Gaijin is aiming for, because ‘that’s what the players want’…
How long have you play the Kv-2?
- no tank in wt is intentionally placed at a BR where its fun and powerful because that would give it an unfair advantage to push it’s efficiency while it’s actually you that needs to have a challenge playing the vehicle to increase your own skills
it’s at a good BR, I’ve not often heard people complain about it
I want it at a BR where it’s well armoured compared to what it faces, and it’s also balanced because of it’s poor mobility and reload time. Not one time since I started playing the game in 2018 have I met a KV-2 and “got scared”, and not one time playing it did I meet some player that couldn’t destroy it. I don’t see what skill required you’re talking about while using it, because you have to hide after shooting and wait half a minute. Last match I played it I got the loader shot and the reload was 1 minute and 5 seconds with an expert crew. Hiding and shooting once is not a challenge when the enemy vehicles can shoot you 5 times and kill you 5 times. I looked at the 2.0 BR vehicles it would face and they still have the rounds necessary to kill the KV2
I think it would be more fun tanking a few shots, hiding your sides from fast light tanks then shooting again, than acting like you’re in a horror movie and having to hide for more than half a minute in this “heavy tank”. Now that I think about it I don’t think this game is made for fun, even though I got a few thousand hours in it and did pretty good
no tank is at a BR where it’s well armoured
this is an ongoing problem that we’ve had since the beginning of Ground battles
if you’re armoured enough to withstand most enemy fire it doesn’t matter how slow you are or how bad your gun is
the perfect example for this rule is the Maus
if you put it any lower it’ll be an Invincible vehicle that’ll survive all match and get a kill every few minutes
now it’s at a BR where everything can Oneshot kill it unless you’re really really bad at the game
But the kv2 is actually competetive
I mean, sure, if you want it to go down to 3.0 i am all for it, i would buy the 1940 smaller turret premium one, but i don’t think it suffers that much
Guys do you remember the 152mm Anti-concrete shell which was a 155mm pen APHE shelll which was removed because it was too realistic
it’s gone?
Yeah
DAWG everything aside OF-530 is fake, I guess the germans cried very loud that a 152mm hotwiser with a 40s reload that had the same pen as a 85mm is OP😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏
thing’s still good tho
just aim your 152 and it’s literally fine
the Su/ISU-152 can use it well at a much higher BR
Kv2 is pretty decent. Sitting at a 2.75 k/d in the 1940 and a 1.61 k/d in the 1939.
Well yeah. Did you expect to just sit in the open while you reload?
The turret is not too different. The biggest plus is the machine gun that lets you kill annoying trucks that run around at that br range.