This wouldn’t be a problem if Realistic had mixed battles as a common basis. However, Russia barely ever faces itself, leading to lolpen literally any other NATO hull besides the 2A7/122s improved glacis. That’s why this buff may not be a huge thing, but its another step on meta shifting.
Now Russia not only has the best plane-launched AGM, among the best heli AGMs, and the best ERA packages, now it also has a standardized competitive reload rate to an entire tank series which already lolpens NATO hulls.
I will never understand how people constantly talk down on the BVM, even making the argument that the Leclercs are better than the BVM, a tank that can be penned by almost everything everywhere, compared to a tank that has some of the best armor in the game…
It’s not necessarily meant as bashing on the T-80BVM. It’s just that highly mobile MBTs with good gun depression and a 5 second reload will always be incredibly strong in the hands of good players.
My humble bet is that it’s a bug and it’ll be fixed. it makes no sense to do a blog to announce an improvement only to be apply such buff for weaker rounds.
Also, notice how the T-80BVM is the only T-80 w/3BM60, yet the round shares the same reload buff time as the T-72/T-90 series, reinforcing the bug theory.
The issues is that war thunder doesnt model the ammo placement, so the next round that you load can literally be anything, and for a 10+seconds you would need to pass over quite a few rounds
Though I’ll keep some skepticism stored. Nothing personal, by the way. It’s just that I have an idea of how Gaijin ends up working, and sometimes they tweak numbers even after officials say anything.
Perhaps not, but it wouldn’t be hard to implement a longer reload when switching to a new shell type and even the Soviet manual they linked said that every two cassettes that are passed adds ~1s to the reload time
the only tanks that actually got buffed from this is t64a, t80U and whole lot of premium\squadron\event t80us (1 t80u in TT and 5 paid)
t80B is 7sec so not a second but 0.1
literally worthless update if you are not giga delux premium gamer that plays 11.7
Personally i fine by giving them this as a temporary measure, but i would rather give this to every vehicle, as you could pick and choose where to place the ammo
I mean UD buff is good but it’s definitely gonna be raised in br so it’s going from great 10.3 lineup vehicle to a not so great 10.7 lineup because all good vehicles are 10.0-10.3
so you gonna be left with 2 BMPTs (one premium), t80b (not a good vehicle in general), tunguska and object 292
This whole thing looks like a premium giga delux gamers only buff to me
