unlike Rooikat that has well divided gear ratio
ratel gear ratio is like
gear 1-6 for 1-25 Km/h
AND gear 7 for FREAKING 25-65 Km/h!!
and GEAR 8 for >65 km/h
unless you get downhill or flat terrain you pretty much stuck at around gear 7th @ 30 km/h
because gear 7 torque is too low too accelerate it
making it so irritating to use
NO this is not about HP/ton or engine power, it doesnt matter
Just use the auto drive when u can do like 2/3 so the gear wont go on gear 7 right away and after u reach to the max speed of the 2/3 u go full speed
Ratel has some of the worst gear spacing I have ever seen. I’ve tried submitting Ratel’s real gears to Gaijin (see Ratel series gears incorrect) but of course as this extremely specific information is only in one book, written by the Ratel’s design team it is naturally disregarded as a single secondary source.
To add onto your comment, Dewald Venter mentioned that the Ratel’s transmission (the RENK HSU 106) has a torque converter, so the actual in-game gears should be 12 forward and 4 reverse.
The ZT3A2 is lucky it has those tandem warhead ATGM, because the chasis is a POS. I enjoy using the ZT3A2 despite the chasis, not because of it. It’s funny using it in cities where you try quick reverse and then go forward to get a shot. Meanwhile it’s competitor - the beloved AFT09 is just a formula 1 car that is not only fast but can eat shots. I’d rather they improve the ZT over trying to keep it at 8.3.
I like Dr Venter, but in this instance I’m sure he is inaccurate as shown in Ratel: The Making of a Legend, which is co-authored by the Ratel design team and excerpts of which were kindly shown to me by @Griffin7028, he does not even have the correct name for the transmission.
Dr. Venter never actually mentions the transmission’s name. I (rather ashamedly) got the name of the transmission from Wikipedia, a fact that I should’ve disclosed.
Name aside, it seems the number of gears and the presence of a torque converter is still incorrectly modeled in-game, and it might be worth making a bug report about. If the mods won’t approve the gear ratio change, they might at the very least approve a change to the number of gears.
Ah, my mistake then. Both the HSU and HSV names are frequently found online, but the most authoritative sources I’ve seen have stated that the transmission is the Renk HSV106.
I’m not a fan of Gaijin’s torque converter simulation method, but yes that’s roughly how they would do it. Early gears can often be left as they are as it’s the mid-to-high gears that will most noticeably lack acceleration power due to their low ratio.