Nah, the APDS is there to clown on people who spend their lives playing boring well-rounded MBTs. It’s a public service.
General surrounding awareness training.
No matter what the spaas still need to flank to take out most targets effectively
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Agree, with your points. Was comparing it to dedicated SPAAG’s
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May be off topic but you mentioned some other points regarding new modules,
The presence of a APDS belt in most or all of the 35 mm caliber SPAAG is, for me, nothing gamebreaking, it’s one of the ways to engage heavier targets, in such battle rating where you’ll face a lot, the 40 rounds can be handy — I suppose you haven’t played those guns, but if you do you know that even the AP-I, with the damage they do, isn’t enough against a T-54, Type 69 or a M60 up front. Yesterday I managed to get 5 destroyed ground targets and 1 destroyed air target,
It doesn’t means the vehicle is broken, actually I played with the worst of all, the Type 87 SPAAG, which is very, very slow, even, I could get 5 destroyed ground targets which I believe 4 of this number were using the APDS rounds, they deal so much damage you only need a very short burst of 4 to 2 rounds (2 and 1 each cannon) to knockout a vehicle. Does it means this feature is broken? No, should the vehicles it has be changed? No. In my opinion you need to have something to unbalance the environment to create a better balance, I mean you need to sacrifice one thing to get another, in this case is the 35 mm DM23 rounds existance.
Regarding the other topic, I believe that the existence of the APDS rounds in 35 mm automatic cannons isn’t the problem, but the modules those vehicles features — The extra module update was great I can’t lie but regarding the ItPsV 90, Gepard 1, Gepard 1A2, Type 87 SPAAG and PGZ09 SPAAG just made those vehicles more resistant to enemy retaliation, even if you directly hit in the turret, usually you only destroy mechanical and eletronic equipment and only one of the two crewmembers are affected. I believe Gaijin could review this minor issue, making the engagements against those vehicles less frustrating.
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It’s a mess. In my opinion is the best from all Strf 9040s in the game, it’s actually useful and the 40 mm Bofors feels to punchy. But when I mean is a mess, it shouldn’t be labeled as a SPAA but light tank. Throwing a bucket on top of a IFV and renaming to to “Anti-air Cannon” won’t help when you’re limited to only 24 rounds and doesn’t have scouting mechanic.
Yes, remove
Remove
Remove
EDIT
Also, double or triple rewards for shooting down planes
Sooo is your opinion just that all vehicles with autocannons should have their AP munitions removed?
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No
Even the aggressor squadrons?
Maybe you should remove yourself from the game? Since you are so hostile to other people it’s clear that multiplayer games are not for you
I died so often in MBTs and Heavys due to overpressure or something like that on my front plate from a 35mm or 40mm from Gepard, Marksman or m247
Honestly APDS is only good against heavy tanks that cant be lol penned by APHE DM13 with 68 pen, ive killed IS3 frontally with it so it doesn’t matter, its literally a nuke round and the higher BR the gepard and other 35mm nuke machines go the better they perform in AT. Love the type 87 because you can use your suspension to sit on hills where people aren’t ready and you just rip T55’s apart if you hit the lip once on the bottom.
Honestly while ive never over pressured a tank with a SPAA i have seen it happen, Honestly i dont have probelms with autocannon tanks since they are massive, only problem children are the ZA-35 and the Falcon because no armor and small size. Makes them absolute pain to deal with occasionally.
TBF the LVKV is using its accurate designation which is a SPAA id say if the other 9040’s got their inertial tracking then id be fine if the LVKV lost its spaa role. No reason to remove the only 10.0 SPAA if you are not going to replace it.
one problem in fighting spaa is if you have high grapics you cant see them if they are shooting you because of the dust infront of you XD
Sometimes? Depends on the tank but honestly all they ever manage to do is take my parts and scurry off, rarely do they ever kill me like that. I know the ways of the Rat and am always playing counter Rat in my tanks to prevent a Falcon or Leo Marksman from pulling a 6 man feed.
To be fair you do come off as overtly hostile on many other posts
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honestly would depend on the topic, but generaly wouldnt say i am.
Being german i just do sound harsher and rougher as well i guess
Doesn’t matter about your nationality considering this is all text based so its a moot point. So again its your general tone when you reply to a post which comes off as hostile. Once you’ve got a reputation for being hostile most people just report anything you say so you don’t get to say anything even if it is good criticism. (Can’t help that unfortunately)