Currently in game, equipping certain modifications completely changes a vehicle’s appearance and effectively turns it into a different sub variant. Examples include the BMP-1 turning into the BMP-1P, or the BMP-2 turning into the BMP-2D. However, the vehicle’s name displayed in game remains the old one.
While this doesn’t have a huge impact on gameplay, seeing a T-64BV still labeled as a simple “T-64B” in the hangar or on the battlefield always feels a bit odd.
More importantly, this change could have some practical benefits. For instance, in AB, being able to see the correct vehicle name would let you quickly identify if an enemy T-80 or T-64 is equipped with ERA. In RB, seeing the correct vehicle name in the kill feed would immediately tell you the threat level, you’d know at a glance if that T-80 you just saw in the feed is the base model or the ERA version.
It’s a small quality of life change that would improve immersion and provide useful information at a glance.
This suggestion is specifically about official production modifications—things that actually change the vehicle’s variant. It doesn’t include things like add on track armor, which are more like field modifications done by the crew rather than a different sub model.
The name change could be either more detailed or more concise depending on the case. Take the T-80B for example. It actually has three distinct in game forms:
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Without modification, it’s the T-80B Obr.1983 (featuring a 30mm applique armor plate)
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With the ERA modification, it becomes the T-80BV Obr.1984 (the 1983 model fitted with Kontakt-1)
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The thermals equipped experimental version could be called T-80BV (Agava-2), similar to how we already have T-72AV (TURMS-T)
Following the same logic, a thermals-upgraded T-80U could simply be called T-80UM.
And of course, if you want to keep it simple, you could just stick with T-80B and T-80BV, no years or extra details needed.
- Yes
- No
- Full version (T-80B Obr.1983/T-80BV Obr.1984/T-80BV (Agava-2))
- Simple version (T-80B / T-80BV)
- Year only (T-80B Obr.1983 / T-80BV Obr.1984)
- Modification only (T-80B / T-80BV / T-80BV (Agava-2))
- I said no