I see.
Yeah it probably wouldn’t be oppressive, but it would still probably be the best 11.3 tank at that BR (though the Merkava Mk.3 and the T-80 U may give it a run for its money).
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So if the IPM1 goes to 11.7 and the M1A1, Type 90, and Challenger 2s go to 12.0 (assuming ground gets decompressed to 13.0), then the Al-Khalid and MBT-2000 will no longer be out-classed / lol-penned in most cases 😅
I’m not sure if the T-80Us should go up after the reload buffs, and the Merkava Mk.3s.
As much as I don’t like their gameplay, I can’t say that they aren’t performing well.
I know this is one person but they have been doing very well in them compared to their other top tier vehicles with similar sample sizes:
(Roughly same timeframe)
Might be a hot take, but I think the MBT2K/Al-Khalid-I could still be 11.3 in this hypothetical scenario. I also think T-80U and Merk Mk.3 will be just fine at their respective BRs after this decompression.
Mind telling me who that player is? I gotta watch some of his replays to see how he plays, a 6+ KPS is ridiculous.
That’s what I was thinking too. The armour is much worse than the T-90As / T-72B3s or T-80 Us (for that matter), effectively gets the same round as the T-90As / T-72B3s, with worse gun handling over the T-72B3s.
It just gets better reverse speed and neutral steering over the 11.3 T-72B3 (though that in itself is a huge plus).
That being said, I think it’s better than the Swedish T-80 U, which has better armour… but worse gun handling, thermals, reverse speed, and a much worse dart (it’s stuck with 3BM42), so maybe it’s fine at 11.7.
What I would say needs to get lowered is the VT5, though.
It’s just an M1A1 (P) at 11.7 with no armour, worse gun depression… but gets no NATO Hump, better thermals and the ability to drone and scout. 11.3 would make more sense for it.
The Booker should probably go to 11.0 too.
Maybe. I can’t really tell for sure. They both may have a field day if the other MBTs get moved up though.
He’s from M3RCV, ranked 6th on the monthly leaderboards for KPS.
I don’t know how he plays (whether he spawncamps or not) but just from looking at his win rate and average team position, it seems like he one-spawn leaves quite often, and leaves matches without spawning if it’s an uptier fairly often.
But I agree that an average of 6.5KPS is crazy, let alone at top tier.
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I’d say they’re close enough to be at the same BR honestly.
For sure. It could be 11.0. It went from 10.7 to 11.7, absolutely massacred. Still playable but overtiered af.
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You think the reload and the better armour is equivalent to the much worse round, reverse speed, thermals, gun depression (to a degree) and gun handling?
Yeah I could see that.
Maybe the same BR as the Booker since it’s more mobile but has worse gun depression and round.
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Yeah the reload and significantly better turret make the T 80 U’s disadvantages feel less… disadvantageous.
I cannot be asked to play another 7s vehicle, it’s torture. The upcoming ZTZ96B is looking promising though.
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I guess so.
Yeah… especially if they have a bad reverse speed.
The T-90M should honestly be 12.3, possibly even after the BR decompression to 13.0.
6.7s reload and worse hull armour, but with better reverse speed, round, gun handling and thermals than the 11.7 T-80s.
It seems underBR’d to say the least 😅
Not sure why it’s 0.7 BRs lower than the ZTZ99A.
Looks like it will be better than the Al-Khalid / MBT-2000, and I’m still wondering why the VT4 is at 12.3 still.
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I think 11.7 will be good for the 96B, but it is still unfinished so we’ll see. The main problem will be the very lackluster armor, mainly the turret, that roof is huge and will get overmatched by any APFSDS.
TBH it seems more like it’s unfinished – like you said.
If it remains like that in the live server then I guess it would be fine at 11.7.
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Having tried to screw around with the Leclerc on dev with the new basket modeled (which unlike many I am not opposed to), really feeling like the armour needs to be corrected (even glancing shots that barely pen knock out the horizontal from the other side of the tank if spalling even approaches the module), or a better round needs to be provided to account for the increase in deficiencies.
Or mobility being fixed. But as with Chally, that will only happen when the sun explodes.
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The fact that their introducing such a massive nerf without anything to compensate for it (be it buffs or BR changes) is pure insanity.
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Its February K/D is already not that much higher than the M1A2 SEP and T-80 BVM: 1.41 for the Leclerc SXXI (the best performing variant), 1.30 for the SEP and 1.31 for the BVM. The Leclerc S2 is the worst performing variant and is nearly tied at 1.32. All variants were below the Leo 2A7s and Strv 122s (except the Strv 122A, which was below the SXXI and S1 with K/Ds of 1.39, 1.41 and 1.40 respectively).
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In January, it was: 1.43 for the Leclerc SXXI (again the best performing variant), 1.34 for the SEP and 1.33 for the BVM. The Leclerc S2 was also at 1.32, putting it below the SEP and BVM. All variants besides the SXXI were below the 2A7s and 122s. The SXXI is only ahead of the German 2A7V, with a K/D of 1.43 and 1.42 respectively.
When you take into account the average skill difference between France and US/Russia/Germany players that’s not a great situation, and that’s before this ginormous nerf.
Absolutely unhinged changes.
The BMPT already killed a lot of my drive to play the game, and this has essentially killed almost everything that remained.
Speaking of, imagine adding the basket to one of the most mid tank in the game while another is absolutely decimating the balance of the game and doesn’t have it (even though it’s one of the most recent vehicles in the game and should have had it from day 1)
IIRC, the reason the VBCI has a manned turret is specifically because they wanted to keep fighting capabilities in case of power loss, so that should be accurate.
You can see something that could be one of the crank handle right above the joystick.
Those UFP values seems quite optimistic considering that the Ariete weigh less than a Leclerc while having no weight-saving design features such as an autoloader.
Totally agree on the additional protection from the WAR package being way too low however.
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Community Bug Reporting System here’s the bug report if you want it, i’m no expert so I just assume this is correct.
Seems to be a typo?
It’s more that some 12.7s need to move up to 13.0 than Leclerc going down in BR.
0.3 br difference will not change anything and we both know that.
Even my 12.0’s Abrams constantly gets dragged to 12.3-12.7 games most of the time…
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Welcome to the club.
You are aware leos and abrams were running around with that one sided nerf since quite a long time?
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Leo’s were always better than Leclerc’s up until the turret basked nerf and ROF buff.
After those changes Leclerc’s became better than base Leo’s.
As for the Abrams it was always better than Leclerc’s.
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Unfortunately I don’t have access to any of the sources so I can’t really tell ¯\(ツ)/¯
… Yes? Like, what kind of question is that?
The massive difference here is that the Abrams and Leo 2s/Strv 122s are simply better tanks than the Leclercs.
I swear, the reaction of some of y’all to these changes to the Leclercs and Type 10s has just been catharsis out of some kind of spite or something. It’s not our fault these changes were implemented, so I don’t see why you’re just making these kind of snarky comments.
At least the Type 10 still has amazing firepower, but the Leclerc just has… nothing. Everything it can do, other tanks can do better, including being a jack of all trade. There’s no objective reason to pick over other tanks.
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