This is looking really good! I don’t want to speak too early but things are on the good track at least. Correct turret rotation, smoke grenades fixed, and corrected armour, camouflage and ammunition values are fantastic steps in the direction of what the Leclerc has been lacking since it was implemented. More to go, but it seems promising. Again, thank you guys for all the research and bug reports you’re making.
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Good job
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Now rank 8 is officially confirmed, I wonder will they actually fix Leclerc and give it a new round. Maybe leave s1 at 11.7 and SXXI and Azur to rank 8 ? (after all the fixes and a new round)
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I was gonna say, now that we’re seeing ground BR and rank going up, there’s room to look at the Leclercs performance and split some of the models after changes (fixes).
I am actually curious about what premiums will France get, cuz last time they introduced rank 8 jets, every nation got a premium right? I am secretly hoping for a stabilized end line light tank, that’s the last piece missing for the 12.3 line up for France.
I believe someone has posted a stabilised 120mm armed JakPaz before. Not sure that would make 12.3 though.
Yeah I just want a stabilized light tank that’s it, something that is mobile and can scout, so I can get on my precious mirage :). Amx 10 RC can possibly do the job, but lack of stabilized is just pain.
Best case for top tier lights would be a “What if?” Production Vextra POLE and the Jaguar.
AMX-10 might get left behind.
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The VBCI chassis can be fitted with a 105mm cannon. I think that would make a good premium. Give the much more mobile Vextra 105 to the TT and give the VBCI 105 as a premium. It would play almost identical to a Type 16. That said, I haven’t seen any images of a VBCI with a 105mm turret.
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I think the 105mm VBCI is still a proposal, I haven’t been able to find anything where it mounted any large cannons.
I think so too. If there was ever a mock up made then that would be the best bet for a French premium IMO. That or some variant of the AMX-32 or AMX-40 no one really cares for. I just don’t want the cool French stuff locked behind a paywall.
A new shell already got denied by Smin.
F2, to be specific.
He hasn’t said anything about F1B+.
F2 was denied as it uses the same penetrator as the F1, but DU, and gaining algorithm does not give them much better performance from tungsten to DU.
However, there are at least 3 other more modern rods, in the form of the F1B, OFLE 120 F2 and SHARD just from NEXTER system, but the canon is also able to use all OTAN ammunitions including DM53 and 63 if necessary.
That would depend on how much Gaijing wants to buff the tank according to its statistics. However, as seen on the Ariete, there’s not much advantage to a better fire power when the armor is absolutely insufficient, which the Leclerc is suffering from more and more as updates goes by. And armor could (and imo) should be fixed according to more sensible real life values
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Its a good bet everyone will get a rank 7 ground premium but if you remember the air premiums, they absolutly werent all made the same. Russia got a near copy paste mig-23 MLD while china got a glorified mig-21SMT and america got a 10.0 cas plane with aim-9L’s. Im imagining there will be a few MBTs (like click bait and OEM that we’ve already seen) and then we’ll get some light vehicles, maybe more gun carriers, and maybe even something in the 10.0 range
Lower your expectation. The bug report were accepted. It doesn’t mean anything more than that. These issues might not get fixed for another 3 years.
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I know, but at least they’re accepting said reports, not straight up dismissing them.
If they aren’t coming within 3 patches they’re unfortunately still likely won’t go anywhere and we’ll be stuck with a dead vehicle.
The Buffs are the only France has to keep the Leclerc competitive with Rank VIII being introduced.
If the mentioned changes about the Leclerc frontal protection do get implemented, France won’t be needing any new Leclerc variant for quite a long time. And I’m fine with that. I’d rather have Gaijin focus in the crippling lack of top tier french light tanks and support vehicles.
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If the 2A7V is getting added that means the XLRs time “should” be getting near.
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