Why are Heavy Tanks not allowed to actually function as HEAVY TANKS?

I only complain about things that F***** up the fun and do you do any different? Take your post war stuff and stick it up your backside for all I care.

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Doesn’t sound like a bad idea given that the only times I enjoy WW2 Era tanks results in me being named a shameless sealcubber and cruel level 100 player so i am left rather jaded towards low tiers rn

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well the only truly consistent projectiles in game are 57mm+ APHE, (25-57mm/90-152mm) APFSDS and tandem charged ATGMs, the rest have been left to rot for a while, especially HESH. HEATGR and APDS which all feel hopelessly bad in game regardless of their on-paper statistics

That’s because the calculator has a maximum filler penalty of 25% penetration loss for conventional AP rounds, acheived when filler is over 4% of the total weight of the round.

In other words, the calculator only goes so far on penetration penalties, and simply isn’t coded for rounds like HE.

Funnily HE rounds do have a kinetic element to them now. It’s just far more limited than what you’ve posted.

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Who cares what others say you have every right to enjoy yourself at any tier .

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Because I already receive enough harassment for playing what I enjoy, as seen in Fox is still overpowered

It’s just not pleasant having to constantly battle of hoards of people telling me I am a bad person or a scumbag for playing certain BRs or vehicles, and to some degree I will ignore it (the fox and Za-35 my beloved) but a lot of the time it discourages me from playing them again

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Ahhh F*** em. This game is too uptight and so is the forum.Worse thing this game ever did was show stats because when they did we all became a slave to them instead of having fun,That is sad because this game really is fun if you chill and just take it for what it is .I am as bad as anybody else at not doing that.

I dropped back a couple of BRs tonight played China where I don’t normally go and had a great time.I won a few and got my arse spanked on a few ,I don’t care.

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Most Russian heavies are overtiered as well. The ones that aren’t are low br. The KV-1 and KV-1E.

I wish they weren’t overtiered but they are. Just look at all the IS series

The best heavy in the game is unironically T-28 (American premium one)

Find a corridor and sit there. 300mm+ armor. God gun for the BR

If you don’t get flanked you literally cannot die

But I agree that heavies suffer, most of them really do. I loved armor meta, and miss it a lot.

Tired of the go kart meta

Daily Malekitth whining about russian vehicles in a random thread…

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Precisely, they go beyond what the calculator is set up for.

In general there can be many complaints made about the current calculators.

I’m not whining. Literally %80 of all heavies in the game are overtiered.

Example about the is series: the battle pass reward one. Object something. It has the armor of a god damn 5.3 IS-1. It’s at 6.7 now.

The normal is-2, has pathetic armor. But because it has a 122 gun (which is a terrible gun because of the reload) sits at 6.3.

A 6.3 and 6.7 with an is-1 hull

They should be classed as mediums at that BR

They are overtiered to give newer players an easier time playing the game, imagine being some fresh new american player in the 3.7 sherman coming across a KV-1E in it’s prime, it’s a quality of life change as well as a balance one

It should be 6.0 at most. Even at 5.7 it was fairly balanced due to its weakish armour and long reload.

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And the dude above says I’m whining, even though I’m pointing out something very obvious lol.

But honestly, the is-2 with is-1 hull is an abomination. I’m sad about jumbo as well. Cobra king was one of my first premium tanks

The extremely huge muzzle brake doesn’t help either

The problem isn’t Russian KV-1E , problem is German KV-1E. Literally no russian gun can pen the KV-1E, but the undertiered 3.3 PZ IV G will lolpen then KV-1E. Adding it to Germany was a mistake.

And usually RU/GER are in opposite sides and when facing Russian KV-1E you will have Germans on your team

Germans have all the best guns between 3.0-7.0

And how I know this matters a lot? Simple. When I play Russian KV-1E I die %90 to PZ IV or some German TD.

So sometimes I join with my friends who play Germany at my request with Germans on my team. And when I do this, I literally do not die. Tbh people also do not know where to aim either.

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IMO they can add a special mechanic: if the only tank in your lineup is a heavy (SPAA doesn’t count) the BR of your Heavy is reduced by 0.3-0.4. you can ofc use backup

I do realize this might cause 1 death leavers but it’s just an idea

T-28 is seriously bonkers at 6.3 though. Especially in downtiers

Anyone who wants a taste of what it’s like to be immune should play that

At least you can just repair and watch the enemy try to penetrate your armour hopelessly

That thing is already partially overtiered, same with the 75mm one.

There’s more people complaining about the jumbos being bad, than there are them being too good.

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