Damn they accepted the bug report a year ago and we still ain’t seeing any sign of progress even with a premium ariete.
At this point is really just a joke: why the hell do they not fix the ariete armour? It’s clear that doing it would make the new premium sell more so they have a pretty strong incentive (insert picture of mr krab saying “I like money”)
Italian coastal sucks badly, especially some recent additions such us RN Ghibli, this thing is sitting at 4.0 while having everything worse than even 3.3 vessels and you can’t persuade Gaijin to move it lower, because they don’t have their own statistics as Ghibli is played (or tryed to be played) by a very few amount of people.
This is comparison with new 3.7 Grecale for example:
And Grecale is not even something special at 3.7, Ghibli is worse than reserve destroyers, worse than frigates of other nations from lower brs.
Freccia was a lot of fun, even a bit annoying for enemy destroyers, then they nerfed HE belts and bumped it to fight light cruisers lol
Add to that 0 squadron vehicles, while USSR is getting its 6th already…
Honestly I thought at least with the introduction of subtree, Italy will get way more options in terms of premiums/squadron, but actually not much has been changed.
There were some nice moments, for example Ariete used to have the best shell in the game compared to what other nations had, making it a cool railgun/glass cannon; R3 was marathon grinder for completing capture points, it made Italy the most popular nation during marathons in the past 😆
I would say Italy is still worth to play and have a ton of cool stuff, there are powerful GRB lineups with good CAS options, though some very old issues like massacred Ariete armor disencourage people to play it.
Oh, I heard about this before!
I saw some humor about that Italy’s main tactic on the ground RB when they didn’t get the Hungarian Leopard 2
utilize Centauro
farm a good amount of spawn points
If you die, initiate revenge CAS planes and show hell to enemies
Anyway, thanks for a sincere answer to my question. I hope you guys get proper care from Gaijin someday, too.
I really thought it was annoying when Japan got an F-16A OCU with AIM-120 while Italy still failed to get an AIM-120 on their F-16A ADF.
The moment that “F-16C has 120CM, while F-16A ADF has 60cm with worse engine, nobody’s gonna play it anyway” claim has gone invalid as long as 16A OCU has 45CM total. :|
For now, I am grinding Italy ‘slowly’ because there are Tornados left to spade
and your reply added some extra enthusiasm!
I think I might need to pay extra attention for grind when Gaijin finally decides to fix Ariete’s armor. XD
In my experience the problem with reports is that mods want only one thing: numbers.
This obviously cannot work with modern equipment, which is often classified.
The cool thing is that, with this report, they have numbers to work on. Therefore there is no more reason for them to wait, this is as good as it gets.
Yeah, this is especially annoying since when they modelled these tanks they didn’t have numbers as well and used pure assumptions and it was even before Ariete weights were corrected (like it weighed 53 t without add-on kits and 54 t with WAR).
Italian tree just get the block 10 they had as spare parts as the premium. The whole tree is running on vibes and positive wishes of 20 Italian mains and 50 enjoyers
The issue with the Ariete’s armor is still there but apparently Gaijin can’t be bothered to make some new estimations, players must do their work.
Here @Roshindow was proposing to try and calculate the weight of the armor if made with steel and compare it with the weight in brochures.
The grim reality of things is that Italy just doesn’t sell enough, the community isn’t as big and loud as some others and the SubTTs weren’t interesting enough to make it more relevant(who would’ve though that a copy paste fiesta would do so uh?)
Haha, not really. I have been making reports on Magachs, Merkavas and the two Namers. The situation there is as bad if not worse. The devs approach to modern MBTs needs some rework, in my opinion.
