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.
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)
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.
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)
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!
Sure. 368,226 Froints please aka 10,000 USD, please. For them to model the damn thing(referring to the size of the vessel also accounts for this cost and why do you think vehicle packs cost so much?
I never really thought about it however the more you think about it, it costs them this much, which is rather expensive especially when you consider that minimum wage is only 266,800 Hungarian forints which is only around 733 dollars and 18 cents per month. That’s 14 months worth when you do the math.
I don’t like copying and pasting but it is far cheaper to just re-add what exists than make a completely new model.
Besides that, the Engine and transmission are both American designs. Training, and building the factories likely got a lot of assistance from the US. This would be a valid excuse to add it as there would mostly be a minority arguing that it shouldn’t.
Besides that this same minority that’s arguing it were the ones defending it to only be in the British tech tree. Well, now it’s on both trees so everyone’s happy. It’s another typical case of pettyness.
The same thing happened with the PG02. Some loved the fast BRT on the ship. Others aka the Japanese wanted historical authenticity which i sided with. Now we have both, its a modification.
I think it also comes down to timing. I don’t know how long it takes to spin uo a new vehicle. For example; data, visual appearance, model, physics etc. and work that into a release.
While I definitely think its possible to add more faithful american spaa, I also highly doubt that it’s a big priority in the pipeline. Especially when you consider how underutilised the existing SPAA is. I think it makes a lot of sense, it’s not the best choice but it’s certainly not a bad choice adding the skink to the US tech tree
