Hey guys, just looking for your opinions on these tanks.
Should it be moved up/down BR? Are they fair or unfair to fight? Balanced or not? Should they be nerfed or buffed?
Feel free to share your thoughts!
Incredibly unfair and infuriating to fight, yet somehow not undetiered. Maybe the rakatenautomat could go up due to having more ammo and a better platform than the USH.
The USH is surprisingly sluggish and slow to react for a wheeled vehicle, and it has no functional armour. It being wheeled also limits its viability on some maps. With how common autocannon equipped tanks are becoming at 8.0, it also faces stuff that can shred it before it can get its guns on target.
If they were to be buffed, I’d like to see a faster reload time on a cap point.
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I agree with all of your points. I think the Rakutenautomat is probably the pinnacle of HEAT spammer tanks. Dying to one of these feels cheap IMO.
fun yet annoying to play. you feel scummy but the kills come in quite nicely. if they go up, they face things they really cannot do much to (T-72A, T-64A, composite essentially).
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Difficult. I think vehicles can be fair and balanced at a BR - whilst simultaneously being immensely frustrating to play against at that BR. And that’s a category a lot of the ratmobiles and HEAT-goblins fall into.
Really, unless you were to bump them so high that they only fought against things with decent ERA & composites, they’re still just going to do exactly what they do now. And you can’t bump them that high because that would be unfair to them.
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Cant buff the USH, docs for it are nearly impossible to come by, even the 205 is running on fiction. Besides if you buff the ISH so it was more balanced then people would complain. People already conplain about the 205 at 5.3 sayi g its the R3 T20, difference is the R3 is nearly 50 cal proof frontally, has a stabilizer which helps with recoil and is faster and in general a better vehicle ultimately now its 6.0 because it was a insanely good LT hunter unlike the USH. Honestly the rakatenautomat should probably move up .3 but im against that as it ruins a lineup, overall it would probably be better to just leave the USH in its current state to avoid people crying about it.
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Speaking from AB:
USH is quire balanced - fairly mobile with massive potential, but dies to MGs and has no pen indicator or range lead. Best used with individual fire for its rockets, especially given you can reload on the fly.
Rakaten is a goddamn menace and needs to go up to 8.0. Fairly mobile, with a heavy advantage in survivability given that turret hits do not immobilize it (If the gunner of the USH gets taken out it is forced to stop to replenish crew, rakaten is not.)
They are a pain in the ass to fight, but in all honestly while I may despise the rakaten I do not think it is particularly broken.
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My favourite thing about the 81mm Swiss rockets on the Rakutenautomat and USH is that they apparently still have an ‘audio bug’ when you hit the player so they don’t know where they’re getting from hit solely based on spatial sound due to the rocket impact hit sounds being silent or muffled. Not that it matters when you can just spam these HEAT rockets so quickly to kill any 6.7-7.7 vehicle in literal seconds. XD
We need more cancer/rat vehicles with this exact same trolly rocket revolver weapon system for more nations IMO.
U.S:
(wasn’t fully built or finished it seems)
OR
The Brazillian M8 Greyhound
France:
VXB-170 Armoured Car
There are also more like the MOWAG Piranha and Tornado. However, based on the vehicle platforms and country of origin, they would most likely go to Germany and Sweden again when they already have their own now in-game.
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True
More Gremlins… 😀
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