The Abrams starting from the M1A2 is garbage and you fight against superior tanks most of the time, they also suffer from several issues such as:
Missing any proper hull protection and it did not improve even after adding 5 Abrams to the game.
No DU in the tank (turret cheeks KE protection is based on export models)
Hydraulic pump is a bug (once shot at it will catch fire and damage your crew if you’re not so fast in extinguishing it, you’d die)
Missing 150mm of protection in turret ring and it should be volumetric.
Fuel tank bulk heads are not modelled correctly.
SEPV2 should’ve came with M829A3 as a buff against the Russian horde, but they said “Muh it wouldn’t add anything to the US” while it’s literally made to penetrate Kontakt.
Several other issues, but my point is YES the Abrams is better than most tanks ingame but it should be better honestly considering their true capabilities in real life, they should be on par with T90M,2A7,B+ in terms of protection, literall no American player asked for a reload buff, they wanted DU in hull and turret cheeks, asked for spall liners, turret ring issue fixed, guess what they got.
The fact they fix and nerf few things in US but not fix the ACTUAL problems the players suffer from is them telling us that they do WHATEVER they want, Merkavas are rotting in several problems for years.
I can only think of the Leopard 2s and maybe the T-80 BVM
We have 7 CR2s, still no fixes at all
Didnt think that was proven
Again, so is pretty much everyone else
And then the Challenger 3 should have come with DM83 and L27A1 is also made to do the same.
I dont really get why you are complaining about shell performance when you have the second best in game just slightly behind DM53, but most DM53 slingers have a 6 second reload, you only have 5…
If they have things to buff, buff them. Realisticaly of course. I wouldn’t be able to know as i don’t play other nations in ground. What i know is that the Abrams is pretty bad compared to the top 3 and it’s not realisticaly implemented. I suppose that bringing it to a realistic standard would help
Im not saying the US doesnt have things to fix. Im just saying, the US also isnt actually all that bad
You still have one of the best shells in the game, with a great RoF and Sustained fire, great moblity, good protection, good optics, etc etc. Trust me when I say, it can always be worse (looks at the CR3TD)
None of the Tanks ingame as far as im aware they do not have a huge weakspot between the turret and the hull.
Atleast few Challengers received spall liners in their turrets which improved their survivability.
I’d trade it anyday for better armor.
Abrams is top 4 after the Leclerc, they have similar hull protection but the Leclerc’s exceeds in being inpenetrable by 3bm42 with tricky turret armor.
As i said earlier, from the base M1 to the HC the Abrams is pretty good, but after that it’s garbage considering they mostly fight against superior tech.
To be fair Abrams has one of the, if not the worst turret rings at top tier in terms of being extremely exposed and even significantly weaker shells can slide right through
The point is, Calling Abrams, the seocnd or third strongest tank in game, “weaker than everyone else” and then asking for a massive shell buff as a result is kinda insane.
What next? F-15 cant outdogfight the Typhoon so you want Block 3 Aim-9X and Aim-120Ds?
Every tank has bugs, lotsa bugs(except T-xx duh) but Gaijin wont fix them
Chally suffer from poor modelling and UK tea tax
Leclerc can be penned by baguette(although Leclerc armor is quite decent sometimes)
Ariete armor is the equivalent of spaghetti
ZTZ/VT armor got butchered by Gaizyn
Leopard armor especially hull armor is still paper which it shouldnt be
And lastly Abrams armor are export model armor, and hull doesnt get generational upgrade
and thats just armor alone
