Simply put, when France was implemented, most of its vehicles were poorly implemented from an historical accuracy point of view, which made most of them worse than what they really were. Paired with the fact that many of France’s most iconic ground vehicles were also missing from the tech tree are why not many players got into France’s tech tree when it was released.
Over time, less and less people played France to a point where only the best of the best players were still playing it.
In consequence, these vehicles were, from a statistical point of view, performing very well, even though they were already overBRed.
Seeing France’s vehicles were performing too well for their BR, Gaijin kept on raising the BR of these vehicles, which in turn drove away even more new players.
The fact that France is still the only nation in War Thunder that still doesn’t have a top tier premium MBT and the fact Italy recently received a Leopard 2A7, makes the Leclercs the worse top tier MBTs at the moment and these are even more reason people are not playing France.
Considering not even 5% of the playerbase plays France’s tech tree, it means Gaijin doesn’t really care about fixing historical issues plaguing France’s vehicles : it takes time and provides them little to no result in return.
And that’s why Gaijin doesn’t really care about France, despite being the world’s second arms exporter after the USA.
EDIT : To change all of the above, we need more people playing France’s tech tree thanks to more premium vehicles. We also need actually interesting top tier ground vehicles and that’s why we’re working so hard to fix the issues plaguing the Leclercs. We can only hope Gaijin will add some worthy light tanks to France’s top tier in the future as well such as the VEXTRA POLE or the EBRC Jaguar.
My guess is they didn’t want to put too many wheeled vehicles in the light branch of the tech tree, so they chose the MARS instead. At least that’s the only thing I can’t think of when they decided to implement this vehicle… They had to model an entire tank from scratch, and unlike the Sagaie, it was a prototype, so the Sagaie would obviously have been a better choice.
Yeah, I was joking about it going to the UK. But I know there is definitely an XLT in development internally. I just don’t see the point though seeing as the devs think all the Leclercs have identical armour. The only real difference is that the XLT uses the EuroPowerPack which would result in slightly worse mobility than the current Leclercs.
This is testing of the Leclerc modelled with the EuroPowerPack in game:
So unless it’s gimped to OFL 120 G1 (which would be stupid), as it stands an XLT would have to be placed at the same BR as current Leclercs. It would therefore be a superfluous addition and a mismanagement of resources as the XLT requires an entirely new model since the chassis is 20cm longer (IIRC) and the turret has its own differences (but I wouldn’t be surprised if the devs were unaware of this) . The time directed to modelling the XLT would be much better served modelling an EBRC Jaguar or even a turret for the Vextra POLE and VBCI Philoctetes (which already have their chassis’ in-game).
But I digress. Speaking of mobility testing… accurate Hyperbar when Gaijiggles?
another great proof that our Leclerc needs better ammunition and better protection.
Little video to show it. De
(I specify that I have the F2 and that my opponent does not know the weak points of the Leclerc which are the ufp and the mantelet, great difficulty in hitting the weak point of the t90 while he could have destroyed me with a single cut)
Not what I meant but yeah good point. I want to see how much effort GAIJING are really willing to spend in aircrafts and tanks remodelling, or are they really going to be lazy and simply give them reload and pen balance. ZTZ99A has clear modelling errors so that has to be fixed whilst for Leclerc I personally think better pen and further BR extension like STRV122Bs L2A7s T80BVM(maybe the new obj2023) go 12.7, and then Leclerc go 12.0 with better round than current; this would also work better with CAS cause they could now go to 13.7 same with ARB.
Funny when i asked Smin if they plan to do remodels of tanks after Cr2 he said no,because Cr2 was burning bla bla bla and now im hearing they are doing it for ZTZ.
I can’t understand why Abrams is replenishing ammunition racks three times faster than Leclerc, and what kind of dumb idiot in the office thinks it’s fair and balanced.
In game the replenishment of secondary ammo makes no sense. Just look at something like object 775 where it takes like 6 seconds despite being extremly cramped.
