Honest rant about the French tech tree post-8.0
The French line after BR 8.0 feels like a bad joke. You struggle through a bunch of vehicles with no stabilizers, hoping that eventually you’ll be rewarded with something actually strong. But no — the best you get is a borrowed Leopard 2A4 and the AMX-40. It’s frustrating.
And to make things worse, the one bright spot was a great aircraft at 10.3. But of course, Gaijin decided that four bombs were “too few,” gave it six… and bumped it up to BR 11.0. Genius, right?
Now seriously, how is anyone supposed to play 11.0 effectively with this lineup? Am I really supposed to take my mighty AMX-40 up against Leopard 2A7s, 2A6s, Strv 122s, Type 10s? It’s honestly laughable. It feels like the updates are made just to mess with people who play France.
And to top it all off, we get a subsonic plane, with laser-guided bombs, no thermals in the targeting pod, facing Pantsirs, FlaKrads, ITOs… The whole thing is ridiculous.
Gaijin, the game urgently needs BR decompression from 10.3 to 12.0!
Honestly, I just can’t understand the logic behind any of this.
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Multiple things are proven missing from the AMX-40, eg. the composite armor in the turret
Super Etendard at 11.0 is also quite dumb seeing as it’s very well-known to be missing GBU-49, DAMOCLES (I believe, a thermal pod of some sort was on SEM-5), and then there’s multiple variants of the AMX-40 to expand that BR, many light vehicles, etc.
It’s really dumb
Anything 8.0+ in France is massively incorrect and underpowered (Minus the Rafale and Mirage 2000, Rafale of which was simply added far too early)
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11.0 ground is already decompressed.
And Pantsir is 12.0 not 11.0.
8.7 and 9.3 are my favorite French lineups due to how strong they are. Especially stronger than Soviets.
I’ll probably due 10.0 later.
Oh, and you intentionally bringing AMX-40s into 12.0 matches when they’re 2 BRs apart is YOUR decision, and bringing that up is admitting there’s no compression.
Man, honestly, you must work for Gaijin, because every time someone posts about the most absurd thing imaginable, you show up to defend it. Maybe you also think the Char 25T is a true 8.0, right? The AMX-40 used to be playable together with the Super Étendard back when it was 10.3. Then it went to 10.7, and after the addition of the 2A4 to the French tech tree… now suddenly 11.0 is ‘unplayable,’ according to you. If I were to use the Super Étendard with anything now, it would be with the Leclercs at 12.0, which is absolutely impractical. And honestly, do I need to draw you a picture? Or have you finally figured out that if a vehicle is 11.0, it fights 12.0? Pretty cool info, huh?
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he did that every post that catch his interest just let him cook his own meal
@_MR_blekaut claiming that criticizing the game is working for Gaijin…
I criticized the game that CAS is too easily OP. Subsonic GBU CAS being the same BR as 10km SPAA is necessary IMO, especially the faster it climbs. Nothing to do with France itself.
AMX-40 is 10.0 not 11.0.
And no one is forcing you to spawn CAS in a full uptier.
AMX-40 use to be 0.3BR lower than Leopard 2A4, which it makes sense that they’re different BRs cause Leopard 2A4 has more turret armor.
The decompression got too much when Leopard 2K and AMX-40 were 1.0 below Leopard 2A4 and M1 Abrams with zero changes to the 2A4 and Abrams. I think 0.7 is a more fair position myself.
I’ve criticized both the air and ground aspects for years in this regard.
I also don’t care what the targeting pod is at this point, thermals or not, they’ll out-range SPAA regardless, so much as well give the most modern version.
