By survivability you mean FCS eating a shell. You have its FCS. It cant shoot, it cant turn, it cant aim. Furthermore, it can be MGed to death, unlike the VIDAR which can survive autocannon fire from the RH202 20mm and 30mm fox gun.
8.0 is fine, its just a VIDAR that trades armor and thermals for a better reload.
From my experience when I bring the Pzh2000 into the higher BRs I am still able to keep up, the issue arises with lack of advanced optics such as thermals. Even in top tier its fun to play but 7.7 is to low and easy for this type of vehicle.
Its bad one the move, lacks good zoom and lacks thermal as well. The gun isn’t stabilized, so 8.7 is probably too high.
Maybe its time to adjust the BR of all cold war and modern warfare SPGs, starting with M109’s and 2S3. They’re all toxic and too low BRed. Especially the Vidar, cause with thermals its just alot better to snipe everything down on bigger maps.
That is true, but with enough map knowledge you don’t need thermals. Such as I am slowly finding spots on many maps that allow me to use the proximity fuse on the PzH2000 to take out spaa and light tanks in some cases spawn to spawn firing.
Artillery should be historically set by BR. 155mm is 155mm Gaijin, so make it fair at least, not ww2 tanks fighting against M44 and cold war tanks against PzH2000, with LRF, quick-fire autoloader, and, as usual for arty, absurdly high survivability.
Seeing this thing get an entire +1 BR is at the top of my wishlist for the next round of balancing. What a game-ruining vehicle. I’d actually consider this more broken then CAS because it can counter planes even better then any SPAA around its BR.
doesnt get penned with 50 cal and several autocannons frontally tho. Especially like 300m+ away, so its not paper thin, it has good cardboard thickness.
I mean even HES are useless against PZH as they dont do shi… to its 40mm walls and anti-HEAT sheets.
122mm IS-6s HE does not destroy it when hit turret, and its like the best HE shot at that rating that tanks carry (not the howitzers).