probably never… unfortunately… theyve done nothing but shit on the merkavas and give soviets their op toys with gaijin holding their hand… its sad seeing my favorite mbt be watered down and given armor that barely surpasses 10.7 level
12.7 Merks should get 500mm of hull KE protection and then call it a day.
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would be nicer than 250mm effective armor
They are still considering it, they need their time, its been like 3 years but yeah the considerations takes a lot of time!! We love Gaijin!
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This game is like a toxic relationship. Each time you look at the game, you remember the good times, you consider returning by thinking “maybe after all this time things have changed?” But as always, nothing has changed for better. I used to laugh when looking at the whole picture, on how ridiculous it all is,
blatant lies for excuses that not even the most blissful of children will believe, but now it just makes me sad, sad and disappointed.
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It is really naive to think that Merkava or any other NATO tank will receive any attention in the future when even in dedicated Abrams update Russia received buffs alongside HARMs which are twice effective as NATO’s. Really, in theory, this circus will end when propaganda money will ran out. It’s so obvious that i predict that this message will probably get flagged as inappropriate. Balancing is so hilariously bad that, at this point, there is no chance that there isn’t foul play at hand, one time? sure mistakes happen, but 4 years of this? yeah, no, nobody believes in this. No backbone or respect for customers in this company.
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Anyway, i made another bug report in Russian to get my complimentary “not enough info” and “not a bug”. I ain’t standing still in queue for execution by firing squad. It’s not as detailed but it brings the absurdity of having a meter thick armor having less resistance than T62 tower. Not that physics and logic is considered as credible source by gaijin but a try is a try. Maybe Russian moderators have more common sense to at least forward this to dev team. Here’s the link, fire at will.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/6KwQiosli2R8
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Oh look another terrible player looking for the problem everywhere but himself.
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Dawg 😭
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Dang, i just have to get good then, how did i not notice my trash skill, dang.
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@Smin1080p_WT hey smin. Just had a curious question. With the rising difficulty of the top tier merkavas. Such as other nations getting new stock apfsds and overall improved apfsds like Strvs getting dm53. And the turret basket and vertical guidance modules now in merkava models. Will we now potentially see a Merkava armor buff from the accepted report? It will help make the merkava at least more sought after considering we have gotten new mbts with aps systems. It would just be nice to have considering the whole tank is disabled indefinitely by everything now.
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I have one questions bros since I am too casual and too lazy to do any research myself, does the Merkavas 4’s lower part of turret cheek simply cannot take a 10.3 round like 3bm42 or M829/DM33-120?
The entire turret can’t reliably do it.
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That means even if everything is properly modelled, the turret is still this weak?
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Gaijin knows it’s far too weak; they just haven’t done anything about it for 4 years.
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In a real-world scenario, the lower section of the turret front would have a line-of-sight (LOS) thickness of nearly 600, so it ought to withstand the hit.
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I’d also like it if they could take another look at m339, it used to be my favorite shell and now it’s just worse dm11
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They neutered the shell ahistorically.
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I know it’s naive to expect anything like that but maybe Merkava buff next update? There are quite a few leaks that mention Israel getting attention in next update. Or might be another Leo but this time it’s from Greece.