It does not deserve to be at 5.7, fighting Tigers and Panthers. It can barely pen the Panther if it’s facing you, and if the Tiger is angled you can’t even pen it. Why is it 5.7? It uses the same chassis as the Chi-To Late and Chi-To, and the same gun with the same rounds. The two main differences are the 37mm gun, which is completely useless with both rounds — the HE can’t do anything with 58g of explosive, and the APHE can’t even pen anything except maybe light tanks, and there are very few of those — and the semi-auto loader, which isn’t even that useful. Also, it constantly gets full uptiers to 6.7, where it’s even more useless, and if you don’t get uptiered to 6.7, you’ll get uptiered to 6.0–6.3.
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I liked it better at 5.0 when it had a fun gimmick. Now ot just gets overshadowed by the sherman at the same br
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Even by me sniping with it (Which is more safe with the insanely garbage armor it has at that BR) it insanely bad,if you do good in it you just got lucky cause most vehicles were light ones…
5.0 was decent for it…
i got 10 kills, zero deaths in my first game in the thing like 2 days ago
i think its okay, 5.3 maybe, it feels like a better delat torn, and its surprisingly survivable imo
I did a nuke,doesnt automaticly means its a good vehicle for its br
Try to tank any German gun,plot twist,you cant
Going down in br wouldnt be a really bad thing,we will see after BR changes
It was comically overtiered before, now it just makes no sense at all with Pz.IVs having 5 sec reloads and being a full 2.0 BR lower
Only Japan would get a massive fire rate nerf AND a 2 step BR increase to “balance” the nerf.
To be completely fair that “burst fire” was historically inaccurate and based on a misunderstanding on how the semi auto loader worked (still modeled wrong in game BTW), but the massive up tier on top of the nerf was uncalled for.
you cant tank a USA 75mm from under 1.5km
i did, a few panther shots directly into my turret
oh yeah obviously but im like a pretty average GRB player on a good day,
eh from my understanding its not even that much of a nerf, the sustained fire rate is much higher now without having to stop to reload the ready rack constantly
That’s probably true for after they changed it to act as an autoloader rather than a 1st stage ammo rack so you had to restock a round into it before you could reload the gun. The original system gave 2 3.3 sec reloads, then a sustained reload of 6.5 sec.
Changing it from the autoloader system to the current system could be considered a side grade, depending on how you look at it, but both are a significant nerf on the original system.
While the current system is what should be used due to it being the correct way the Chi-Ri functioned the up tier was excessive, especially now the Pz.IVH/Js have a 5 sec reload, only 0.5 seconds slower than the Chi-Ri, only ~6mm less pen, have more armour on the hull and almost as much on the turret (with the addon armour at least), all at 4.0.
was such a crazy thing, i certainly did not expect it
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Yeah, especially since stuff like VK 3002 (M) sitting at 5.0 is absolutely normal.
Bro their is a “suggestions” tab for a reason, but I still agree with you.
Yeah i mean…anything will go through the Chi-Ri without any issue