There’s no comparison with the French tanks…none. They run a 4.0s reload time, the T58 has 2.6s!..and its a 155mm! And the oscilating turret on the French rigs is a weakness because their rings are butter. On the T58 the combined thickness you need to get through is almost 500mm at its weakest point.
The thing is absolutely idiotic in its design. It doesn’t need to be moved up a BR, it needs to be removed entirely. But we know that ain’t happening, Gaijin wants its money, game quality be damned.
BRUH, I have the Object 140, I almost never survive ANY shots in it. Especially after they moved it up now. They absolutely ruined it. It needs to go back down. They also ruined mine and many other’s lineups with that increase. It wasn’t even performing well on the charts before the increase.
In GRB it is now 0.3 away from the T-55AM-1
And in Arcade, it is now the SAME BR as the T-55AM-1!!! NO 🙅♂️ It was a terrible decision to increase its BR.
It’s pretty obnoxious when the only thing you can shoot is the hull, so you put an APFSDS in the nose and the driver eats the whole thing, or somehow it bounces. Sure, it’s got no stabilizer, but with its absurd rate of fire you can just start blasting and hope for the best.
The survivability of the T-58 is very trolly, making it really aggravating to play against.
If you are somehow bouncing any sabot or even basic APDS on a M103 hull you need help, that thing is comically weak at 7.7, let alone 8.3, to that same end the front of the hull is 80% charges, even if you hit the driver you will pretty much always hit charge unless the T58 chose to only take rounds in it’s autoloader which means it only has 6 shots.
I’m so sorry that a 8.3 US vehicle actually has armor for once, you might need to actually aim instead of just firing sabot or HEAT center mass.
It had a WORLDWIDE 1.9 KD on statshark, was bought by good players and spammed out by them, hence it went up.
I recently started playing it at 8.7 (never got the chance to play it at 8.3), and its just plain balanced. Its fine at 8.7, just a few undertiered vehicles below it that need to go up and 35mm SPAA that need to get their belts reworked to 1 APHE and 3 HE.
