Sad, because the US never used this vehicle, there so many choices
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Yeah… But their vehicle placement has just gone out the window, like britian getting the Mig-21 and T-90
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Somewhat true, but Gaijin does not care about the complaints of the playerbase. They heard American players asking for the Skink and realized that it could be a quick copy paste job while being accepted by at least part of the community.
You don’t have to look closely to realize that many of Gaijin’s decisions nowadays rely on how easily they can add an identical copy of a vehicle to another tree.
It is very dissapointing because on many instances they have proven that they are more than capable of implementing moderately faithful representations of obscure prototypes based on extremely limited information, so a copy paste such as the Skink should be completely avoidable.
Instead people try to back and support Gaijin as if it was some sort of well-thought-out and tasteful decision, when in reality it is pure laziness that can be realized in the many other SPAA suggestions on this very forum.
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I saw a T90-A for the US in Olivia leak xD
yeah… and even “new” stuff is usually made out of C&P parts that are often placeholders and we have to wait years to be fixed. Like F-111F have an F-5E radar or the Sea Harrier FA2 having the Harrier Gr3 HUD (and neither with correct RWRs which should be a simple C&P from something with equal abilities)
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For sure. I don’t play air but I would certainly agree that they depend most on unique components to keep their mode alive. With tanks a new turret, hull, cannon, engine, armor layout, etc. can result in a noticeably different playstyle for both the player and their opponents.
Looking purely at ground… the 6 CR2s we’ve gotten all feel pretty similar to me :D
Because many of the US mains, who often don’t do research believed they deserved the Skink.
Going “it’s a Sherman” and not looking into it any further(between what the tank truly is and its story). Gaijin caved in because it is one of the big three and they must get the upper hand(and that is an easy C&P)
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Well of course those attributes diminish the further you get into top tier, even a new cannon won’t do all too much to change the way one plays, if every tank already has defined weaknesses, more penetration will just increase the effectiveness at which said enemy tanks can be killed.
And that is just the unfortunate consequence of standardization, which happens to technology of all branches of armed forces across the world; nobody is willing to try anything new because tanks and jets are at peak performance currently.
To make it look like they care about filling the SPAA gap…
For God’s sake, the M16 MGMC still has a 100m/s better muzzle velocity and the perfectly good late war incendiary M20 rounds.
The only upside of the Skink is armour meaning you can slap a plane who is suicidally straight plus super close and head-on. But that means sod all when any decently sized bomb comes into the mix.
Do better Gaijin, give the US tree an indigenous design!
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The “muh freebrams” people will get mad b/c they “don’t have a viable SPAA option”
Oh, also, not to mention the M1A2 AIM should be in the British tech tree, but nah, it went to the US.
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It’s lazy, the T77 and others would have filled the gap better
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I’m a British main its total shit…
Yup
I’m not going to condemn that fact, but USA mains think it’ll be helpful.
Yeah, the Sherman, that tank that almost every nation on the face of the planet has used, even Sweden…
Are US mains generally speaking that this is their thoughts, or just the dumb and vocal minority?
If you Google the skink on Reddit you will see the dumbest, whiniest cope posts. Most of the awful opinions come from there
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Unlike most Sherman’s in other nations, the Canadian Grizzly (Sherman) is 100% built in canad
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The weirdest thing for me is I have to spade it for the second time. Lul