Best thing America can get is another gimped SEPv3, but with Trophy.
Challenger 3 would be neat, but still a Challenger.
Leclerc XLR would be neat, but would probably be as gimped as all other Leclercs.
Even with marginally enhanced capabilities, NATO can’t look forward to anything any better than what they currently have, specially if Gaijin insists on the gimped depictions.
Regarding T-14, it may be one of the most… unique tanks to play.
Incredibly hard to KILL, but incredibly easy to DISABLE. A hull-down Armata may be basically invincible, BUT it would be really easy to disable.
Frontally, its hull armor would be tough enough to be basically immune, but the turret and gun could always be easily disabled.
There’s still a ton of prototypes/demonstrators as well. Things like the KF51, Abrams X, EMBT and the many other similar vehicles would bring a lot more substantial changes.
Sure there’s nations that don’t have that, but generally I think there will still be ways to get new MBT content in some form. Sweden for example through Norway could get the K2NO, which while not winning the competition was still a unique variant made exclusively for Norway.
And even with no more advanced MBTs to add now Japan could see improvements to the existing Type 10 through things like a faster reload (could go up to ~3.2s sustained, maybe ~2s for the second shot) or fixed mobility.
SHARD from Leclerc’s gun penetrates 640mm, so it would be far better than F1, but nothing groundbreaking. In fact, I have no idea why at least S.XXI and AZUR still doesn’t have it!
Sure, but at the end of the day;
-EMBTs are Leopard 2A7V hulls with Leclerc turrets and guns (still, GIB).
-Abrams X is a completely unknown vehicle to which Gaijin will probably give the M1 base 355mm KE hull and no turret armor at all. The best bet for America is probably CATTB, which would basically play like an M1A1 AIM in terms of armor and thermals, but with extreme firepower.
-KF-51 is the most interesting of the bunch thanks to the uparmored hull and 130mm gun, but nothing guarantees us its turret won’t be covered by 0.16 KE “composite screens” or “structural steel” lol. Still could be the closest thing to a T-14 counterpart.
I forgot to consider these vehicles at first, that’s true; but at the end of the day, I don’t think they would be as groundbreaking as Armata will probably be.
The community has been trying to fix Type 10’s mobility for 6 years but it remains unaddressed because the missing acceleration “is not a bug” and the broken steering is absolutely intentional, so xd.
There are quite a few exampled each aside what you mentioned that could give some sort of different gameplay
Imo just like with 5th gen for jets (that imo should never come but its not on topic) the devs should really rework most of the tanks that are gimped since years, decompress, do things that should have been done a lot ago and are long overdue…
Im not very an enjoyer of the reign of tech demostrators, single units or showcased vehicle that are newer then the dinner i had yesterday…but if they have to come, they should really cut the bs up and work fr to make top tier atleast somewhat balanced and fixed before adding vehicles this disproportionate
Sepv4, US can get that, though it is most likely just going to be sepv3 with LWS, maybe gen 3 thermals, no smoke though :( (ROSY can be attached though IIRC) [ but still not a T-14 counter]
A big part of the current issue is that the game accelerated through the early and mid Cold War far too quickly to get to modern-ish tanks and aircraft
This has led to several major issues:
huge swaths of unique missing designs;
over compression as what vehicles that were added needed to coalesce to form line ups;
the current issue of having “run out of track” so to say, where while there is future higher tier content, it’s pretty limited;
a reduced likelihood of seeing many of the vehicles from (1) because so many players use premiums to push to the top of the tree
And while I point to the early Cold War, this issue shows up at 10.0 + as well. Germany still lacks any line up depth between 10.7 and 12.7 (event vehicles aside) and it has had the same end of the line tank for, what, 3 years?
That’s optimistic, I expect SEPv4 to not even have SEPv3’s already underperforming armor, because “n-not enough proof” or something, even though the thing weighted 70 tons. It will probably be just a SEP but slower and with LWS.
That, if it’s ever implemented on the first place.
T-14 is a big unknown tho
IMO should be putted into the same basket as other demonstrators like Abrams X, MGCS or EMBT.
We have nothing but the promises in the brochure. I don’t want any PR-driven “wunderwaffe” tbh.
