After having played in the U.S., Africa, EU and CIS countries locally, not just connecting to the servers across the pond.
I can say without a doubt it’s the premium spam, and the fact that NA players are genuinely bad. Now that I’m back here in the U.S. these games, regardless of team are decided in 1-2 mins. Everyone just presses W and whichever team folds first the game is decided.
It’s the premium spam and the press w mentality. 2 kills and spawn CAS. I deal with way more CAS spam here than everywhere else too.
I’ve had a much better time playing locally in every other continent than I have now in the U.S. after coming back home this week(after 2 years away).
For range and accuracy the rifled barrel is better but im think it lowers the shells velocity. Smoothbore has higher velocity and better for firing HEAT and for logistics of firing NATO rounds. 120mm smoothbore is used by all of NATO but the UK so the UK can only fire its CHARM 2 shell unlike the rest of NATO countries that can share shells. UK still prefers HESH though as the tank can be used as artillery firing HESH accurately into trenches/building to suppress them or clear them out for pushing infantry which is what Ukraine mainly uses the challengers for.
Not really the fault of M1A2. M1A2 is one of the best MBT behind the Leo2A7/Strv122 and the T-90M. Great firepower, adequate mobility, armour is mediocre but sufficient, and great “soft qualities” such as depression, turret traverse speed, reverse.
Due to many premium players in US, US mains are universally known to be terrible at top tier on average, even by themselves.
I honestly don’t really know about velocity but I am sure of the fact that for decades it’s been agreed upon imparting extra spin on a dart is bad. It doesn’t make them more accurate and in fact makes them less I’m quite sure. The rifling was for the hesh round, and only that.
I’m pretty sure even the challenger 3 will be a smoothbore gun.
So I think you’re wrong man.
Edit: In fact I just went and looked it up.
You are correct the rifling lowers velocity. It also lowers accuracy as the spin is bad because of its long rod and the point of the fins add more accuracy through stabilization and slight spin than if you tried to spin stabilize it like a bullet(hesh round).
So yeah man, smoothbore is better for a dart. Rifling is better for more bullet-type rounds, and the gun isn’t inherently more accurate because it’s rifled. Unless we’re sneaking only about a hesh round which no one really uses and for the U.S. for example we use fin stabilized rounds for eveything.
Yes CR3 has changed to smoothbore but yeah, they kept rifled purely for HESH because it proved incredibly valuable in OP Granby on the CR1s
But the interopability (made apparent by a certain eastern conflict) and the increase in drone warfare and guided weapons (like ground launch Brimstones) has mitigated the value of HESH.
L27A1 though should be a way more potent shell than it is in game.
Both smoothbore and rifles are roughly equal in accuracy due to the fin stabilised rounds that negate the need for rifling but fired from a rifled barrel causes drag
I think we were both confused. Smoothbore more range and velocity, can use any 120mm smoothbore round and HEAT. Rifled more accurate. Can use only the CHARM 2/other Rifled barrel shells and HESH.
101% Agreed the CHARM 2 was made specifically to penetrate Russian frontal armour with the full C2 firing sequence starting from the command of “Load Sabot” and ending with “Target” or “Target Stop” taking between 4 and 4.5secs while aiming for centre mass of the spotted target from a tree line miles away.
Its designed and made to be a 1 shot K-KILL shell.
More accurate when using a hesh round, as the means of stabilizing it is spin stabilized. The sabots themself on the cr2 remove the spin, they have a ring on them that counteracts the spin so when fired it comes out just like a smoothbore with little spin.
The rifling is only relevant to the hesh round, or if we were using apds.
They’re all accurate to get the job done at km’s away, just through different means lol