Shit happens every now and then, I’m sure most of the time you will just obliterate a sherman. Sometimes my sturmtiger shells hit tanks and don’t kill them but that is very rare and not a reason to cry about something as if it was completely useless and broken, <1% of shots.
i dont think they meant that, more than likely their experiences with huge shells involve Sturmtiger which has enough explosive filler to counteract the inconsistencies
Oh they counteract the inconsistencies until they don’t. Like i said i shot at a tank and that tank was undamaged by it. Sometimes “rng” trash happens and that is fine, we can’t hold our expectations to a degree where we cry about something that happens rarely, it’s impossible not to have such rare inconsistencies exist in a game like this.
shermans and most other tanks will be completely decimated 80% of the time. the sturmtiger just has a significantly larger amount of explosive to compensate
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Sounds good to me. With good aiming, that number can probably be raised to 95%?
I also like the fact that most of you here who commented have a record that says you didn’t even play the FV4005 yourselves, and proceed to shit on OP telling him he do it wrong or you can do better, while yourselves doesn’t even have experience playing this particular vehicle and ammunition type to find it is wonky enough and need a fix. I honestly can’t trust anyone who says they could do better or claims they understand the problem if they hadn’t even played the vehicle themselves lmao
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I’m grinding for it however what i said is likely true. You aren’t really going to be bouncing your shells off a sherman unless if you aimed as if you were drunk.
after lord knows how many hours ive sank into this game I’m a decent enough shot, may I ask if you have at least spaded the FV4005 to have experience with the predicament it is in?
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Reading comprehension please.
the shells arent bouncing, they are just having voids of no damage which appear to be random, a perfect shot will often be punished by it
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Then i would be happy if the other person did not misinform me on the issue.
It is super wonky, if WT claims they are trying to be as realistic as possible, a 183mm HESH to the machinegun port area of a Sherman shouldn’t have failed to kill it, it would be more acceptable if yall says it’s subjected to RNG bullshit, it wasn’t even OP fault that the Sherman ate the shot lol try shoot the same spot again it will kill the Sherman, the protection analysis is not accurate at all.
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Regardless, i think this is such a minor issue. It is more easy to hit any part of the tank instead of the machine gun. I don’t think it matters, just don’t aim for the 4 bad pixels. If the inconsistencies are regular with the 183mm hesh with perfect shots, i would assume this to be a bigger shot.
Since both of you probably have the fv4005, can you record 50 of your matches so we can compile some consistency statistics of how the shells work. And by that i mean 50 matches without handpicking the ones with inconsistencies and leaving out the ones without.
as devils advocate i have to say it was not the best-placed shot, however it should still have bagged a kill. I should record when I use FV4005 so I have better examples to use
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They just need to model the explosive filler, which apparently gaijin doesn’t think it exists.
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I remember reading one of the posts that says they did, it has two penetrators and behaves more like the HEAT, which explains why some HESH shots could kill some crews, and with pure HE you either deal 0 crew damage or 100% which is overpressured. I don’t remember the rest.
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17kg of plastic explosive in a 70kg shell is a major underestimate for sure
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Feel free to do your maths
assuming the 183mm similar to the later developed 120mm hesh for chieftain and challenger, id guess the 120 is based on what was learnt from the FV4005 project please help me understand how such a large part of inside the shell makes up so little of the weight and why this means it has to be so wimpish
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