And it’s not a universal autoloader “issue” either, because in T-80/Oplot’s case, the autoloader is skeletonized so it doesn’t absorb anything.
It’s only a primary issue with the horizontal autoloaders, which of course include bustle autoloaders such as the Type 10’s, that have solid walls of mild materials.
And it’s an issue that can be resolved on our end by intentionally aiming for the powder charges in the case of T-72/ZTZ vehicles rather than relying on armor spall, or shell fragmentation.
Back when shell fragments and armor spall did low damage to ammo, even in WW2 tanks, I started to just aim for the ammo itself.
Japanese and French MBTs have blow OUT panels. Unless your round compromises the wall between crew compartment and ammo, nothing will happen. Even if they load heat, as the heat used by these tanks CAN NOT blow up and only cook off.
Russian tanks have blow UP panels. If you hit ammo, they cook. I at least run russian MBTs with a full carousel and have checked some of my replays and see that the autoloader 110% saved me from a fatal ammo rack. The typical “Driver-Engine” or Driver-Autoloader-Engine" shot that would have been fatal before the buff happened. That allowed me to shoot back, at least crippeling the enemy or just outright disabling them because “Basket - Engine” is essentally totally disabling the enemy.
And now with autoloader modules, their ammo has a spall liner, so if you do compromise the blast door, you need to directly hit ammo pieces to ammorack them.
It’s very blatant on the Leclerc and Type 10, you’ll get shot, lose the autoloader, see that half your shells are orange veering to red, but you’re fine as long as they don’t get directly hit.
Any player with an understanding of the game’s system foresaw autoloaders as ammo spall liner, it’s just that the usual suspects being up to their usual self, they fantasized a major nerf exclusive to Soviet pattern tanks based on their hopes and dream.
What’s your point? It’s still the autoloader stopping an ammo detonation, sure a Type 10 sometimes survives anyway due to the blowout panels, but it still means you need to return to a point to reload and replace the ammo. Are you suggesting that Russian tanks should use a different model for the autoloaders because ammo detonations a always fatal?
Yep, I made the mistake of pointing out in the Dev post where they 1st talked about the detailed autoloader models, that given the already well established track record of modules eating rounds and spall it might end up being a buff, you can imaging the reaction that got. Seems like they had this idea that the autoloader would break when anything hit it, but all the steel its made of would not actually provide any protection.
You don’t get it bruv, surely this time it’ll be different, just trust me blud it was revealed to me in a dream.
Let’s just hope they actually vote for the regenerative steering test at least.
One must imagine Sysyphus happy or something like that.