IMHO nope. There’s no need for another (and fake-ish) BP. And I say this as someone, who’s played about 2k battles with BP and it’s actually my most played vehicle…
Personally, I’d prefer something new, different, original…
And, ofc, M22 + M24. It’s a crime that Brits’s still don’t have them in their TT…
“Nearly every other tech tree”
France only has an M26 at 6.7
Sweden has one LT and one TD
Israel has one TD
China has one heavy and one light
Italy has 2 lights and a medium
Japan has 2 TDs and 3 mediums
So literally the only trees that have a heavy and medium at 6.7 in TT are US and USSR.
Also hilariously enough the british centurion mk 10 is outpreformed by both the swedish and israeli equivalent.
I am against copy paste, but I must recognize that for example the British used in large quantities both the Sherman III (M4A2 with initial hull) and the Sherman V (M4A4), so even if it is a copy paste it would make a lot of sense to add them. I would only ask gaijin on the subject of copy paste, that they at least do not copy the exact 3D model, that they look at real photos and put tarps, backpacks, bags, fuel cans etc in the same way as in the real photos, so that it would be something different at least.
I understand what you’re saying, but I think there are certain vehicles that, by history, should be in those tech trees, what could be done is to add them in a pack together with another native model, in order to be able to use the native one and avoid copy-pasting, and so that it doesn’t slow you down when moving to another Br. For example, in the same way that the Cromwell I and V are together, you could put the Sherman II, III and V together, so that just by unlocking the II you can move on to the next vehicle.
What I find absurd is what they did with the M44, which was to add it to several tech trees at once, allowing for the inclusion of several native vehicles in its place, such as the late model Brummbar or the Hummel in Germany, the Abbot in Britain, and so on.
I think they wanted to give everyone access to the mechanic, without having to “burn” all the cool and famous vehicles at once. Now Wespe can come - let’s say hypothetically - next year and it doesn’t matter if the Sexton is not in the same update and comes eight months after the Wespe, because competitively speaking everyone now has one or more HE slingers already.
I think the devs have done that copy-paste simply because they are not going to add anything similar, neither Wespe, nor Hummel nor Brummbar. All with the same tank (which yes, they historically had) and fewer problems making other 3D models.
In fact, the British used almost exclusively the M4A2 (early hull) and the M4A4, while the Soviets did the same with the M4A2 (late hull) and the M4A2 76W. Only in the Pacific were the M4A2s used by the Americans.
Nahh. If a vehicle exists, it’s guaranteed that at some point it will come to the game. The fact that they come slowly over many years is just the standard for drip feed content industry. They don’t call it drip feed for nothing.