I generally don’t complain about it, it definitely reduces attack power once a crew member is lost in non autoloaders but that’s fair. You could argue the time penalty but these days most of the time it doesn’t matter because the turret is now so fragile you’re dead on the follow-up shot anyway.
Combination of the ERA eating shots with the tracks. It took him like 15 shots to even disable the autoloader. He took so long to kill me, that I started to feel bad for the guy.
Ah yes
I love 30 second repair times and nerfing my own gun traverse speeds
you’re buying expert in Ru MBTs too
this is a non-issue forced by people who find excuses to cry about anything
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Trolly armor and ERA, best UFP armor ingame, autoloader protects from spall, no turret basket, faster than other mbts at same br (such as merkava or challenger), ERA on the sides protects you from a couple of sabot autocannons, and low profile.
I do not see how they need more buffs.
And befofe you say anything, I play chinese ztz which its a little worse armor T-serie tank. And its an absolute beast.
I would say Merkava, Ariete and Challenger are the real ones that needs a buff.
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There is no Russian equivalent to 30mm/35mm SPAA, yet they remain monsters at the BR. What is your point?
Completely false.
Zsu-37-2 and zsu-52-2 have way more pen if you compare it for anti tank purpouses. At lower br even.
We do not have modern sabots ingame yet. We stuck with old ones.
The ZSU-37 does not have APHE and is on a very awful platform with ONE degree of gun depression, meaning you cannot shoot people even at the same level as you. Its terrible for AT.
ZSU-57 is open topped and does not have nearly the same ROF as 35mm APHE, neither does it have STAB or on-par gun handling. Its good for AT, but certainly not an equal to 30/35mm APHE. Moot point.
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I’ll try and find the image for you of T90M with a clean hole straight through it’s thickest frontal armour and the rear two thirds of the tank completely missing. It’s a short video with 2 or three guys looking at it in disbelief. All that’s left of the tank is the first 2 road wheels and the front, the rest has completely dissapeared.
So much Ukraine footage to sift through.
Go ahead.
Should have clarified - i mean Chinas own MBT. M1A2T is insanely good but that just shows how bad Chinas own MBT are, as you said the M1A2T saved China Top Tier. But their own ZTZ99A, VT4A1 and WZ1001? I have an free Ace grinded on the 99A - over 500 Matches in total with Realistic and Arcade.
And once i got the M1A2T a couple of Days ago; i just felt that the entire Grind for the Ace on 99A was pointless. Even unspaded and on low-level Crew the M1A2T immediately was better.
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He’s an average player because he’s neither above nor below average, meaning he’s 50%, and besides, you can’t say much, but I’m not going to get into that again.
Yes. 100% yes (never played Israel tho but hard to believe theres something worse lul) Chinas MBT are basically like Russias but you can reverse however you don’t the have the magic bias of their ERA / non exploding Ammo, and they are purely made of Paper even through weighing like ten tons more because those ten tons of more Armour aren’t even modeled into the Game and entirely focused on the UFP afaik and Gaijin nerfed that.
And if you get penetrated its an instant death. With the M1A2T or other Nations MBT if you get penetrated you can still often survive like with M1A2T since i got it survived so many Stuff i would have instantly died else with 99A/VT4
And the great Mobility? Sure is nice. But you can’t even make use of it. What use is the nice Mobility if you have non-existent gun depression, the slowest ahh Reload of any MBT and are made of Paper? No Spall Liners since two+ years either even tho they have them IRL.
99A/VT4/WZ1001 are basically just like the 11BR 99s but you can reverse.
Their Stats are absolutely hard-carried by the fact that basically no one but people who already grinded other Nations i.e. Veterans play China which boosts their Stats. Just compare the M1A2T Performance with the US Abrams, its like polar opposite. But for non BPA_Jon like-leveled Players like me that kinda sucks absolute ahh…
But nonetheless ZTZ99A still has a special place in my Heart. Idk why and even through they suck, they somehow still feel amazing and fun to play when you are going as fast as an IFV/Light Tank in a ~55 Ton MBT xD Like after playing some Germany Top Tier with the Leopards or the RoC M1A2T from the USA and then you hop into the 99A…almost surreal especially in Arcade where you can go as fast as like 90km/h with them
That kinda sums up the China MBT experience when you go full s p e e d to Cap or some flank to then die one-hit or realize u have no gun depression and cant make use of that nice spot xD
Im not a high tier player and my tolerance of being cross universe sniped by russian CAS and BMPTs is very low nowadays.
when my friends drag me that high im using the stormer AD to cleanse the game of russia thunders CAS spam
Finna bet he’s either never coming back to you, or at best the picture of the T-80 that got shot at the junction of the UFP and LFP.
I’ll add it to the pile of “proof” that I’m waiting to be provided, along with the Leclerc that’ve been taken out frontally by 20mm (claim made by a clickbait specialist that covered devblogs back in the days), and the fact that darts on light vehicles turns the people inside liquid (idea that I saw in a Warhammer codex long before the WT forum became the zoo they are today).
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As I said, I’m not going to waste my energy on pointless discussions; I only joined in because the flaws pointed out by the author are valid, but Russian tanks are far from bad, I say this as someone with immense experience with them.
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more than fair enough. The idea that they need another buff after the questionable to downright incorrect autoloader speed increase is nonsensical.
The best improvement we could have is to redesign these trash shit ass maps from Gaijin.
And finally eliminate multipath so that SPAA like BUK Claws etc. etc. become useful, I’m quitting GRB because of the maps.
Theres some unbelievably trash maps in this game, make all vehicles suffer because of it.
hopefully make skysabre work finally too.
Multipath sucks but at the same time how else are they gonna keep people buying the SU30mk2 amv as an overpowered top tier premium cas plane?
Arcade is unironically better anyway. Played thousands of GRB Matches, nowdays im almost exclusively playing Arcade. Has its issues / annoying Stuff as well but simply more fun, at least for me.
Once map positioning and tactics are encouraged in map design , then maybe I can see where you’re coming from, but so long as there is clash royal style maps and COD gameplay, Russian MBTs will continue to be decent even in the worst case.
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