Its almost the chance of untrained tank crews in western tanks is ZERO. They all have to fullfill a minimum standared or they won’t roll out.
In contrast, there is a very high chance that the desired shell in a russian autoloading caroussel is farther off and requires much longer rotating than just 6 or 7 seconds.
A game which favor eastern tanks mainly. First the turret baskets, now reload times. Its a bit onesided currently. A global reload buff without adjusting BRs should be a nogo. Its one of the most important stats of a tank. You can’t just change dozens of tanks by -1 sec reload.
I think they’re too slow now, in comparison. THe autoloader is too fast or the elite tank crews of western tanks are too slow. It can’t be that this strange russian caroussell, is at 6 seconds base, while western tank crews are at 8 secs, bit better with full training. But still slower now.
I def agree 0.1 seconds is def a buff not worth complaining about, tho the tanks that got the 1 sec reload buff might have to get their brs looked at other than just the T64B, but i think were the friction is coming from is the fact that in GRB Russia kind of has the best vehicles in every other category, Best CAS, Best Heli, Best AA , so when players see them getting a buff and combo that with the massive neft to survivability that some western tanks got and its no surprise people are pissed.
And which of the reload values for manual loaders are being used when Gaijin evaluates the state of balance for a vehicle? The differences are quite big
Especially since autoloaders can’t be killed and protect from spall in russian tanks. Quite alot advantages. And now, all of the sudden, they will be even faster than an elite crew?
What is this about? Leopard and Abrams recently had a massive nerf with these turret baskets?!
Thats not even part of my question. I know that Gaijin balances vehicles BRs around their Spaded performance and loadouts. Now im curious what state of Crew knowledge is considered the default for balancing decisions since reload times are quite a big thing in top tier
However you don’t have to wait 20+ seconds to be able to fire again, unlike manual loaders that replace crew in 10 secs/don’t get affected by crew replenishment at all.
Manual loading will still be faster most of the time too, even with these buffs.
State of balance for a vehicle is evaluated by it’s stats.
Buffing reload speed will buff all values, so the increased efficiency will affect every single player.