Merkava 4 armor is long overdue to be buffed

According to a moderator, the main Report has been “connected to internal reports to track progress(?)” Well this was said 3 years ago, and where’s the progress? it’s almost 4 at this point. I just can’t withstand this absolute radio silence that gaijin is giving us, the developers don’t give a single update on it, not a single answer, no dev blog or community post to talk about it!

In the meanwhile they added more “Merkava” based tanks Like the Namer’s and guess what? Full of issues too, they added the Eitan, Full of issues as well, like please Gaijin do something!

This 1 moderator is all we got for an answer for 4 years.
It literally feels like the bug reporting community is pointless, since things just aren’t gonna get fixed, they’re just ignored.

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Asked @Smin1080p_WT
Only got responses of “still being considered” and “no news currently” as you’ve said it’s been nearly 4 years now. We will never see the report come to the light of day. Gaijin fixed it with leopards. They don’t care

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Fr though @Smin1080p_WT what progress has been made since nearly 4 years ago of asking about this other than getting the same response over and over again. “Still under consideration” just give us some kind of straightforward answer. Do the devs even care to implement the report?? Been nothing but radio silence

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This is why people feel like subtree copy-pastes are added INSTEAD of fixes, and not “IN ADDITION TO”, like Gaijin claims.

-Where are Challenger 2’s missing hull spall liners, first-order rack size and replenishment speed and elevation speed fixes?
Nowhere to be found. Instead, Abrams.

-Where are Merkava Mk.4’s armor fixes?
Nowhere to be found. Instead, Leopard.

-Where are Type 10’s acceleration and armor fixes? (Notice I don’t even mention steering, as regenerative steering will fix that, but it’s still been broken for 5 years until it’s implemented.)
Nowhere to be found. Instead, Leopard.

-Where are Leclerc’s acceleration and upper glacis fixes?
Nowhere to be found. Instead, Leopard.


And I’m criticising this as someone who loves all of the subtree tanks, because I love all tanks equally. I just strongly feel, like many others, that they are coming in detriment to the trees’ unique designs.

Because, while Gaijin’s words say “no”, their actions say “yes”. Otherewise, these errors wouldn’t be lasting for 4+ years each.

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I got banned couple days just because i raised my voice on this matter on general thread.

I told Smin Isreal vehicles/tree needs fixing first rather than getting sub tech trees but turns out im the bad guy for raising my voice for this matter.

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I remember that day!

To be fair, Smin had been asking to and warning not to clog the R&R thread with bug reporting discussions (as we always inevitably do lol) and the matters were still getting out of hand a bit too much, specially with certain comments’ manners.

There were lots of “shooting the messenger” moments, considering Smin was taking a lot of flak despite being a CM and not a Dev with decision making power.

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Whats funny is Smin wasnt the one who banned me and we already ended that discuss right before i got banned.

I just that someone decided play ‘‘hero’’ role cough cough.

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I’ve made this report concerning Merkava!

It’s not armor, but… I guess anything that helps make it more accurate is welcome, right? ^^

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/a0xZKhP85kN6

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Good luck :)

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they say SLERA works better against HEAT rather than KE, does this mean that if SLERA is introduced they will make all merkavas HEAT-resistant but remain KE weak?

SLERA at the end of the day its just a type of ERA. They will be always better at chemical than KE. Still it will offer some KE protection.

even without SLERA, the armor itself shouldnt be weak against KE

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