I know that these decorative items, like fuel cans or helmets, wouldn’t provide a huge protection advantage, and I’m not suggesting they should dramatically change the vehicle’s survivability. What I’m really talking about is the realism. In real-world combat, even small items on a vehicle can impact its effectiveness, whether through added protection or by becoming a vulnerability. By incorporating these items into the damage model, it would make the game world feel more authentic, showing that even small, cosmetic details could have a meaningful role. The idea isn’t to make tanks overpowered, but to give a more realistic touch without disrupting the game’s balance.
Read my post again.
The game has a hard enough time/bugs dealing with just one set of volumetric calculations to make, I doubt it could handle adding dynamic objects.
Players would “game” it in unrealistic ahistoric ways such as stacking and sticking decorations in strange ways.
They would add “decorations” that provided meaningful protection and price them at like 2000 GE. It would become a pay-to-win feature. Let alone being a buggy mess that would cause damage model chaos as people figured out ways to exploit it
It’s a cool idea and I would love more customisation options like camo netting. But they already almost provide too much benefit with just the bushes and increasing survivability would just be bad for the game’s health
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No amount of decorations is going to protect against a tank shell. We don’t get to put much decorations as is, it will take more than a few helmets to cover by tank’s vital areas.
Maybe at the lowest tier there can be some potential, but I was thinking about higher tier tanks.
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I just want them to patch the bustle baskets and such to be usable, most don’t interact with decorations at all and decorations can’t attach to them, and then some even are modelled as solid boxes, so you can’t put anything inside even if it would technically attached to the turret side like with the other baskets. The ICV (P) is the latest example off the top of my head.
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So when we have a bomb poking out of the top of our tank, it acts like a bomb… interesting idea?
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that would create major P2W issues, things like the road signs would add an extra couple mm of armour which could make things 50cal proof that weren’t before.
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And any stand-off would greatly reduce HEAT pen (IRL anyway).
that would be absurdly powerful in some instances
Yeah gajijn would ruin it with their stupid moneymaking strategies
They advertise their game as ‘realistic,’ so making things .50 cal proof is just going to make it more ‘realistic,’ right? Of course, if they are money-hungry, they’re going to add something with 100mm of armor for pay-to-win players, but I mean…
Ngl this seems very ai generated
Some decoration might give you disadvantage instead, also causing harm to teammates around you.
Example:
If it gets shot by enemy
Im mad that decoration wasnt also usable on naval
On battleships? you need the fab-5000 or tallboy else no one can even see it lol
For a BB true, a PT boat? Would be hilarious
inb4
Grand Slam decoration on L3/33
Hehe.
Also definetly need a Tallboy decoration added alongside the Tirpitz
Yes I’m not a native English speaker so I told ChatGPT to translate it in English and idk what it did
Ofc the bomb wouldn’t explode