Why do most ground vehicles get mixed belts?

Machinery of War Discussion Ground Vehicle
1

Why are most belts in this game mixed? AP and APDS belts often have 1 HE shell, HE belts often have 1 AP shell, etc.

I never understood why this is a thing. It doesn’t make sense having shells with different velocities in the same belt (despite all shells in the belt having the muzzle velocity of the first shell in game).

Is this a realism thing or is it for balancing?

2

Mixed belts is a thing usually. You might have 1 round of tracer for every 3 or 4 non-tracer rounds for example.

3

I think its just old code, Gaijin never fixed.

Each shell should have it’s velocity, but I guess gaijin doesnt want to deal with having mixed velocities from the same gun.

Likewise we probably should have belt configuration, but I guess that is something Gaijin likewise doesnt want.

1 Like
4

its more so really old legacy code, like i think talking older then War thunder itself

But yeah they should redo that stuff

5

Doesn’t really make much sense when both the AP and HE shells have tracers though

1 Like
6

I was sort of referring to IRL.

Gaijin appear to have their own logic about such things - whether coding related or otherwise. It may also be something as simple as having more tracers - more visuals for the casual audience?

(He says - noting how often FPS games seem to be running around firing full tracer all the time.)

2 Likes
7

Yeah, let alone other issues like missing rounds or incorrect compositions within the current setup

For example Tornado’s air belts should have a lot more HEF and the Typhoon is totally missing PELE-T rounds found on the Gripen.

1 Like
8

Tbh I’m most annoyed about the SPAA that have only mixed belts

9

Yeah, that is even worse.

Even if restricted to the current game limitations, there is no excuse for why there isnt an option for just AP, Just HE and then a mixed

1 Like
10

Hopefully we get custom belts one day

1 Like
11

That would be the best option.

A couple of historically accurate default setups, but then custom belt option as well. I cant see any reason why that would ahve a notable balance issue

1 Like
12

with how belt code is set up rn keep dreaming

its basically a list
for every belt
over and over again

1 Like