I can’t tell if “fun” was the punchline to this April Fools’ event or like its like deliberate incompetence to say “see, you don’t actually want WW1 vehicles”. I’m reminded of a video of some saleman deliberately using a squeegee wrong seven different times to justify why you should use his product instead. Wack vehicle balance, wack vehicle movement, wack infantry inclusion.
And whats crazy is like the aircraft, which are terrible, are being held for their other game which is a terrible marketing move. “Hey, see these not fun vehicles? Guess what? You can fly them in our other game!” Like why would I if they’re bad here? Honestly, this is just making me want to go play BF1.
St Chamon is super op since the buff. With 78mm pen and good precision you kill everything with 1 shot. You could theoretically use it in rank 1-2 matches in common ground modes. Gajin kind of overreacted a bit and buffed this APHE shell to WW2 levels. Strongest armor WW1: 30mm; Pen St Chamond APHE shell 78mm, more than double, not even angling helps anymore. There’s no chance not to score, except you miss.
just like the a7v, but him not needing to aim that much.
it’s a ww1 shell, the 1897 is not very far for the sherman 75mm m3 and even closer, the m3gmc gun that is a 1897a4, aka a modernised 1897 produced by the usa.
Just made a 1050m kill with St Chamon. Rangemeter works to 1200m. It covers the entire map and its percision good enough lol. Even at 1200m you got enough pen to defeat the strongest ingame armor.
Whoever made this report, I doubt all of WW1 saw such a rapid firing, super ranging, high pen machine.
Now French have double the penetration values than MarkV and AV7. Super high firerate, was buffed to 15 shots per min. Along with the +100m/s muzzle speed buff it has a superior trajectory for long range shots as well. Gajin was never good in balancing things out. One extreme, next day another extreme.
that’s because it was an artificial nerf (and a CP from the b1 75mm), and now they CP the sau40. If you’re complaining, just know that they could get the mle1916 from the 2c with 460g of tnt and 66mm pen.
you still have no problem one shoting the saint chamond cross map with the a7v, it’s just that now they can do almost the same (the a7 still has it’s 18 billion crew and it usually requires 2-3 shots to kil the thing if you don’t ammorack it).
As I said, you could use it as sniper in normal rank II matches. Its totally ww2 capable with that shell.
Also strange that all 3 tanks now have the same speed. A7 was used to be the fastest with 16 km/h, now MarkV and Chamond reach that as well. Thats ahistoric, Mark had 7km/ h or something.
Chamond firepower is too strong for this gamemode, it lights everything up over any range. They need to find a weaker shell or at least tone down the fire rate.
