After the arrival of the Kungstiger to the Swedish tree, the visuals of it’s archetype, the Tiger II P (the H has some smaller problems of it’s own, but we can’t make any direct comparisons here) have shown their age and inaccuracies, not only the resolution of the 3D model but the tank’s turret appears to be generally misshaped. Bare in mind that it also extends to the tank’s armour model, which affects gameplay by making it harder to defeat.
The old turret’s front has a noticeably pointier front, which results in a smaller window for a penetrating hit
on the kungstiger the more rounded, yet flatter appearance allows the shooter to aim less precisely with no fear of a bounce
here from the top view we see how angular the old model is, which can lead to unexpected non penetrating hits from time to time
on the remodel the turret face is noticeably flatter, true to how it looked irl, there’s no fear of a trollish bounce here
old model shows it’s low level of detail, the ring’s thickness corresponds to the turret’s, and it doesn’t even match the visual model because of the small number of polygons
the thinner, possibly more accurate in terms of thickness turret ring protection here offers a new weak spot which was one of the reasons why this turret got replaced irl
In conclusion, the solution is obvious, replace the old early King Tiger model and base it on the newer, much more accurate kungstiger model, obv the late/H King Tiger also deserves a refresh
Why would they even make an updated model, only to not update the already existing one? <_<
Like half a year prior to the Kungstiger I made a bug report how the Tiger II (P) model is outdated, lacking volumetric and armor overlap on the turret front.
Now we have a new model but they don’t replace the old one.
Well, think of the KV-85 turret when they updated the IS-1, think of the Churchill III hull when they added the NA75, think of most T-34s when the D-5T got updated…
One good thing they did is updating the Ferdinand shortly after adding the Elefant, sad thing this didn’t become a trend
Pz.Bef.Wg.VI P needs a major remodel since the model itself looks like circa 1997 complete with issues & errors such as a convenient floating turret that results in incoming rounds being channeled into the turret ring, missing Nebelwurfgerät, incorrect armor thicknesses around the MG port & ball mount, an incorrect armor thickness of 80 mm on its cupola, & machine guns without a Panzerlauf which incorrectly protrude from the mantlet & ball mount:
In fact, the in-game model is so substandard & low grade that by sheer coincidence, the additional bolted on 100 mm armor plate conveniently does not cover the plate behind it (problem with the game’s Ferdinand & Elefant as well), almost as if some biased prankster decided to add a super (not so) secret bolshevik exploit™ in order to deliberately bypass 200 mm worth of armor:
