Aren’t most maps just fields full of vegetation and clutter?
That’s your personal experience, right? Some players prefer minimal graphics settings, others play on huge 4K monitors. This comes down to individual player experience, but it doesn’t reflect the tank’s actual capabilities.
We’re talking about baseline features at 10.7, and thermal vision is one of them for the general audience.
Do you realise the T-80UD needs to go up because it’s almost impossible to kill for most 9.3 tanks? If you get into a brawl, the T-80 is winning; if you get into a sniping competition, the T-80UD is winning. When other tanks at 10.7 sure might have better armour, actually have weak spots bigger than 2 pixels at range, or don’t just kill the driver and engine. Sure, if it gets clubbed at 10.7, that’s annoying, but it can’t stay at 10.3. Too many vehicles suffer from it.
yes but you dont need thermals to see the tank shaped tank. or the tank shaped bush.
yea for the competitive edge because “optimisations” for inferior hardware was done in an unhealthy way
Thermals are a crutch or assistance. quite often they didnt change the actual outcome so they really are not a baseline function and requirement by any means at all
“damn why is that bush moving up a crest and why is it so tank shaped?”
The -4 km/h reverse speed is also a factor. On the T-80UD, I need more time to spot my opponent than my opponent needs to spot me using thermal sights. So even if I do see a tank, there’s a high chance it will shoot first, usually straight at my barrel. And due to the awful reverse speed, there’s a high chance I won’t be able to retreat properly and will get hit again.
It is better to not try sniping with those to be honest, as the reverse speed is bad and so is the gun depression. You’re better off flanking or something else.
Too many vehicles at 8.0-9.0 BR suffer from extremely toxic SPAAs that shred everything head-on and farm nukes. So what’s the solution? Decompression - yet no one seems to talk about decompression. Instead, most players just want to nerf the few good tanks rather than buff the weak ones by global rebalance and decompression.
Vehicle: JAS-39E Gripen Gamemode: Arcade, Realistic, and Simulator Air Battles BR Change: 14.0 -----> 14.7 Reason:
The Gripen E is not only one of the very best dogfighters in the game, it also has one of the best secondary armaments and amazing avionics. It doesn’t make sense that an F/A-18E is at a higher BR than the Gripen E.
Right, but not in situations where for example Leopards 123 or Christians have already taken key positions and broken the timing. In those cases, the match turns into a shooting range and ends within minutes.