idk if youve ever been in a tank or any tracked vehicle over rough terrain but that is more than expected. seeing as WT takes a static reload rate as your normal the video heavily indicates it ought to be faster
Yeah but WT also doesn’t slow anything down for terrain - the reload rate applies come hell or high water, apart from damage and/or missing crew members
so:
1/ yes to could be faster IRL; and
2/ the video has been around forever in the forum and Gaijin have seen it; and
3/ it ain’t going to change anything; and
4/ yes I have, but only with turret mounted MG’s; and
5/ several years is a long time to be complaining about something that you know is not going to change.
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That British loader inside that Centurion must be either seriously jacked or have the reflexes taught by The Flash.
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Yes when it first came out (old forum - 5-6 yrs ago??) I recall people making (entirely not serious) comments about the RAC running trials in 1952 to be the loader in a video… using Olympic athletes…
Given this is a propaganda reel, I have my suspicions
Or it’s a propaganda film. It was clearly hyping the stabilizer.
I decided to buy it - financed by getting a spare AUBL in the crates :)
I get it’s bad (mostly due to gaijins nonsense of not fixing the reload)
But poor Aubl HVG
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Of course reload IRL are way faster but there is a catch
First of all as it was Said it’s a balancing factor, take the t54E1 give it it’s 2.5 sec reload Time and Watch it being but at 9.0 only to get coocked because yeah I’m Lucky Luke but mobility Is crap, no stab, no LRF.
Same with centurion Mk3 for exemple, it would be impossible to balance.
Second factor: the human loader
I will put you in a tank as a loader and for 1 hour straight you will be loading shells in the breech and it will go like this:
-First 10 minutes you would be an absolute menace with 3 seconds reload as you claim
-After that you will get so tired that the rate for fire would decrease with a reload of now 10-15 sec
So unless you want this mechanic implemented in the game, we don’t need to claim bug reports on reloads because it is slower than the reload on a propaganda film.
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Also like Joseph said, if you take into account the fact that moving and crossing difficult terrain doesn’t impact your reload at all, the average gap to real life begins to narrow for most vehicles anyway
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There’s no logic to it, they just pick and choose.
T-55AMD-1, fitted with experimental Drozd? TT. T-55AM-1, mass produced standard vehicle? Premium.
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Its almost like I warned earlier in this exact thread about a certain video from the 50s of a centurion firing being misread/misleading lmao.
The original video of the tank firing is captured on old tech, updated to new tech, its about 15-16% faster then it should be (been several years since I initially looked into it, but iirc its 24 fps updated to a 30fps system and was changed/modified so it wasnt stuttering/choppy looking, causing a speed up)
edit: While technically possible to use a 20 pounder that fast, the problem is also the turret was pretty unfriendly to it too, its not the norm afaik. further edit: similar things with US 90mm in the M48 too of extreme rates of fire by good crews, but not completely typical either exist.
It isnt propaganda, its the video I noted in my comment to you about not believing reloading videos due to tech changes causing the speed to change xD
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Rather there probably is case by case logic. As a business, wanting to keep a free hand is hardly surprising.
I get that. But the vid is a literal propaganda one, you can tell in the way they show everything.
Vs.
The one I sent was likely recorded my some random guy, and given the rotation speed of the loader, I would have to say it isn’t sped up, it seems accurate.
It’s a video from the 1950s~ vs a video from like 2005? 2008?
more than likley he would have been picked to be a conqueror heavy tank loader the next year. the british army has always had loaders so insane that you would think they are on stroids.
the footage is a little sped up due to desychronisation in digitising the footage however its still unbeleivably fast
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British Pathe isnt a propaganda network. they are (moreso were now) a worldwide newsreel service. theyve became an archive of footage from the entire world during the 1900s and are a highly valuable insight into beyond living memory
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That reel is from 1952, literally ZERO other tank had such a refined system fitted to its main gun yet. its hyping up a technological advancement like they always did
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and therefore was a propaganda film let’s see a modern firing of that.