I wager 7.3 is not enough - 7.0 is what it needs, same with the IS-4M.
In exchange though I would happily see the KT105 go up to 7.3, alongside the Panther II and Coelian. All three are miles better than the Maus in nearly every situation.
We just need decompression.
There needs to be a new BR bracket somewhere around 2.0 to 3.7, the jump in capability between 2.0-3.0, 2.3-3.3, and 2.7-3.7 are massive. I think a new BR around 3.0 would be great, then shuffle everything up 0.3 would really help new players.
There needs to be another BR somewhere around 6.3, as 6.7 is heavily compressed. Such as vehicles like the Early Tiger II and M26, clearly aren’t deserving of the same BR as their counterparts. This would also space out vehicles like the Later Tiger II and T26E5.
Then there needs to be a new BR somewhere around 8.0 to distance the end of WW2/start of Cold War from HEATFS slinging vehicles and AT missiles. This would indirectly space vehicles away from the Maus and similar vehicles.
Ok, but when I get the Maus, i want to play it a lot. I dont just want to play when its 7.7 or lower, because most of the time i get uptiered
I wouldn’t mind it. They should also decompress cold war BRs more.
I tried to get the Maus to work at 7.7, but even as a decent player it’s just awful. It’s all uptiers at 7.7 against darts, stabilizers and laser range finders. It’s just a poor excuse that they can’t balance the tank. Soviet heavies essentially take up the same spot yet they are still in the TT.
Gaijin just wanted an excuse to remove another unique German prototype from the tree.
Everything above 6.7 to me is just unplayable because they refuse to decompress CW ranks.
Well too bad, huh. Cry me a river.
Dude, you literally can have a setup of Maus, PzH 2000 and Wiesel1A4 for every kind of situation.
7.7? - Play Maus
Uptier? - Play PzH
Map not flat enough? Play Wiesel
There’s nothing to complain and be sour about.
Ok fine you can have a setup but when i said i want to play maus i mean maus only
Then what will you do if you get fields of poland? Just be a hindrance for your team?
I would go a step further IS-6, T-10A, IS-4m at 7.0? Maus at 6.7. Quite the proposition don’t you think?
Yeah probably. Or ill just try to get to the B point and stay in that area
bmpt to 2.0
jokes aside its hard to rate the maus in terms of br if it is lowered even slightly it would be overpowered if uptiered slightly big cannon foder, its a fun vehicle but it is also problematic.
It’s br is exactly 7.7, not a single bracket lower, not a single bracket higher.
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You are right about all of that. Maybe this is part of gajiin saying look the vehicles you meantioned above like the Ru-251 and object 906 have been played for probably close to a decade they have had their time, newer vehicles and mechanics are in town. I would say only a small fraction of the old vehicles will continue to be relevant as time moves on in war thunder. I could be wrong though. It is similar to owning a 30 year old Mercedes luxury car, it is still a fantastic car, especially if it is well maintained but in terms of it being relevant on the market vs other newer luxury cars it can no longer do that.
Got a nuke with it recently on Arctic in an 8.3 match. You have so much going on besides the armour. Internal space can make you survivable against darts if you bring the right amount of ammo. The coax decimates light targets and allows you to blind people with smoke. You have trolly reverse. Anything that can pen you in an uptier, you can pen in return and you have APHE. Track + barrel enemies with the coax while reloading, then hit them with the APHE nuke.
The Maus is far more map dependent than BR dependent. If it can get to the fight early, it’s absolutely competitive even in a full uptier.
Sorry, you need to angle the Maus even in a full downtier. Your largest weak spot (turret cheek where the armour normalises) is rather easy to pen for plenty of guns in WT.
Instead of asking for the game to be dumbed down, learn to play.
Nah, completely different use cases.
The Tiger II 105 for example is more of a classic push heavy. You need to be leading the charge while using universal Ground RB skills to stay alive. In the Maus you don’t have the mobility to do that, so instead you have to be a nuisance. A roadblock.
Imagine a Tutel but you have two barrels and one is much harder to disable. Every time people barrel me I use the coax to disable them and calmly repair.
The Maus has, in short, an unparalleled ability to tie up the enemy team’s resources and attention. You can sit in the open with six people shooting at you and still survive by constantly angling and using the coax to disable, while you pick them off one by one with the main gun. You can buy your team so much time when you play the Maus. You can get nukes fairly easily too. And you can buy your team local superiority elsewhere on the map.
It’s a support vehicle. The Tiger II 105 is very much meant to be the tip of the spearhead while the Maus is the ProblemTM.
So, play it a lot. What’s stopping you? Bonk Bradleys and Sheridans like there’s no tomorrow.
The Maus has a very unique playstyle. A good player might be tempted to “transfer” some skills from other tanks that just do not apply to the Maus. It requires a bit of a bespoke approach. If you have the patience for it, the rewards are well worth it imho.