12-13 seconds would be IMO, a fair and balanced reload speed for the T32/T32E1’s T15E2 90mm gun.
At least if they’re not going to move down it’s BR because of more compression and unbalance.
Having a total of nearly 15 seconds maybe to kill a single enemy tank while an MBT, IFV or light tank with a stabilizer, HEAT, APFSDS or ATGMs behind or near them rushes you around the corner on a small map is generally going to be unbelievably one-sided especially if you’re alone or don’t have teammate support nearby no offence. Then again this is a common issue for most 7.3-7.7 heavy tanks tbh.
Considering Gaijin has the Soviet 100mm load as fast as the German 88mm because of “reasons” fudging the numbers for the T32 should be considered no big deal. The long 90mm is probably the worst gun at that BR simply because of that massive reload for marginal penetration.
Everyone wants a balanced game but the bad players don’t know how to move things around. If you had good players argue and deciding BRs you’d have a better game than we have today. Pandering to bad players has killed many games in the recent past while those with a carefully adjusted balance stayed relevant much longer.
If someone has a good KD across many vehicles they probably are a good player. That’s the easiest and fastest way to determine their performance.
The only example of this not being the case is if people are 4 man squading in ARB but they’re the minority and can be filtered out by looking at Kills/Match.
War Thunder is much more fast paced than real life so are the deployment and repair times. Idealy they should be close to RL but if necessary there’s no reason not to adjust them for the sake of balance.
Because most of the ones that disagree are the ones that would be considered bad.
The one we have now with the extra RP for 3/6/9K for GRB and 2/3/4K for ARB? I’ve never seen anyone complaing about those. TBH I didn’t pay much attention to the discussion as I didn’t think they were controversial at all.
Doesn’t surprise me. This playerbase has a massive unironic skill issue. The extremes between good and bad players is bigger than in any other game and the amount of 10 K/D and 0.1 K/D ARB pilots is insane.
I agree that, generally, KD across many vehicles can somewhat describe a good player, but there are other factors that come into play. I wouldn’t say a spawn camper is a particularly good player just because they know how to get to a position and destroy unaware players that exist in a pre-determined spot.
I’d say map knowledge is a part of getting better at the game. Of course it’s annoying to get spawnkilled by a VK, M18 or any wheeled tanks but it’s Gaijins job to provide balanced maps however they haven’t managed to create a single one in the last 10 years. Most of the time if a team gets spawn camped it means they lost the fight for map control (other team controls all points and flank routes) and have therefore lost the game. If you think certain maps have spawncamping issues make them public. I have some maps I dislike for this reason too as shown here: Kursk Map Spawncamping From Behind The Spawn
T32E1 removes the entire Achilles’ heel of the tank, the MG port, which can be penned by basically and tank it fights, and replaces it with one very thick and well angled plate almost invulnerable to the vast majority of AP rounds. It’s like any heavy tank, it’s great in a down tier but terrible in an uptier.
The heel is the gun. Two part shells universally have too long reloads in this game. 6.7 nearly every nation has access to HEAT rounds. By 7.7 only russia uses AP rounds. Even at 7.3 almost every nation uses HEAT or APDS that don’t care about the buff to your UFP. You still play the same hull down game as the T32 which means your UFP is nearly irrelevant.
Even if the T32E1 was at 7.3 and full downteir, its no different than 5.7s facing tiger 2s. As it is, no one plays the T32E1.