If Merkava Mk.4 weighs 80 tons, it certainly won’t be for the fun of it…
However, many players started bashing me until I had to delete the post because “Gaijin would surely just increase the weight but not the armor”, even though Gaijin’s main defence not to improve the armor is that “it would be impossible to be better for this weight”… although I don’t know anymore, hahah.
When I play nations like Germany or Russia at top tier, I am bewildered by how unkillable you feel. It’s actually insane how unbalanced top tier is.
Even if Gaijin goes for a Balance over Realistic approach, you can’t honestly tell me that the Challenger, Merkava, Ariete, Leclerc, etc can’t stop DM33 reliably.
I’m genuinely baffled by how poorly they modelled the Merkava’s armour. At least the Chally can tank otherwise penetrating shots to the turret cheek, and Italy now has a 2A7, so they can’t fully complain anymore unless they want to defend the Ariete. I haven’t checked the Leclerc in a while, so I can’t say much about that atm.
At the moment there are quite a lot of bugs when it comes to losing the tank, just from destroying the ammunition to overpressure on the side where the cameras are with a 35mm HE, the hull should at least have the same values as the Mk4…
They have nothing special going for them aside for like reverse speed. Being the best protected MBTs would actually make them special and unique from all the other MBTs