one of the most frustrating pain points for U.S. top-tier players, who have spent years watching their iconic main battle tank get dismantled by flaws that don’t align with its real-world reputation. Right now, the tank is defined by massive, easily exploitable weak spots—most notably the turret neck gap and a massive hull profile that feels like it’s made of paper against modern armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds. When you take a shot to the front, the lack of depleted uranium (DU) inserts modeled in the hull means you’re almost always looking at a one-shot kill or a completely disabled turret ring, forcing an incredibly passive, hull-down playstyle that just doesn’t work well with current win rates.Giving the Abrams a proper armor buff would completely revitalize the American top-tier lineup. If developers actually updated the kinetic energy (KE) protection values on the turret cheeks and extended that heavy composite protection down to the lower front plate, the Abrams could finally function as the aggressive, frontline brawler it was built to be. Instead of getting instantly wiped out by a snap-shot from a Leopard 2A7 or a T-90M, a buffed Abrams could reliably absorb or deflect incoming fire, giving players a fighting chance to use its excellent reverse speed and reload time to counterattack. Fixes to the internal spall liners would also mean that even if a round manages to sneak through a gap, the fragment cone wouldn’t instantly knock out all four crew members. Ultimately, this change isn’t just about making the tank overpowered; it’s about restoring a sense of historical survivability and balance to the game, ensuring that driving the legendary Abrams feels rewarding rather than punishing. And fix every other vehicles for the community and don’t even give Russia more vehicles for that matter and got plenty of evidence on me.
bro the abrams literally needs to be buffed because i got hit in the front once by a leopard while going 4 mph backwards at a 17 degree angle during a solar eclipse and instantly died which is obviously proof that the armor is fake and gaijin deleted the DU because they hate america and before anyone says “just angle” the abrams is not supposed to angle because its an american tank and america invented going forward so it should be immune from the front and also the turret ring should be 900mm because historically the turret ring was protected by the concept of freedom and if a 120mm dart penetrates it then that is physically impossible because DU is heavier than tungsten which means it should basically bounce every shell back into the enemy barrel and explode their ammunition through quantum mechanics and the lower plate should be classified as ERA because i said so and the spall should travel backwards because otherwise the crew are unfairly being exposed to consequences and also the loader should reload in 2 seconds because american reloaders drink energy drinks and the commander should have thermals from space and the engine should produce 5000 horsepower because the real abrams engine is american and american horsepower is bigger than european horsepower and russian horsepower doesnt count because they measure it with vodka and while were at it remove the leopard 2a7 because i died to one and remove the t90m because it survived my shot once and remove the pantsir because i dont like planes and remove the 2s38 because it exists and remove france because they have funny tanks and buff japan because i feel bad for them but dont give russia anything because they already have enough tanks and if gaijin gives russia another vehicle before fixing the abrams i will personally uninstall for 45 minutes and come back and spend 80 dollars on a premium because this game is literally unplayable and i have extensive evidence from classified military documents that i found in a google image search but im not posting it because the government will take my screenshot and everyone needs to understand that historical accuracy means the abrams wins every engagement because thats what history means and if you disagree you are either a russian main a leopard main a snail employee or all three and probably a communist
totally agreed bro, arbams sucks tank, useless murican mbt due to artificial nerfs, t-90m the best
ambras sep v3 also useless, a huge hole under the turret chicks can be penned by object 292, which is a 10.7 tank. embarrasing
bro really
It’s shocking what we see on propaganda performing in real life and in-games like War Thunder. It’s the basic of the Survivability Onion. Don’t rely entirely on your armor; see the following:
You can’t make a perfectly armored vehicle that is impossible to pierce its armor and it destroys anything it sees, 1. It’s impossible, and 2. it’s stupid and should not be accepted in a War Thunder-like enviroment where PvP is very regarded as a core mechanic, you have to work with weakspots to reward high-skill gameplay, removing that part of the PvP loop is not helping the situation at all.
Winrates are nothing and not every player plays the same to determine a vehicles’ performance, its a shared number that heavily relies on a team of mixed-nation matchmaking, if you possibly could differentiate the winrates of a specific vehicle for a specific nation without considering the matchmaking that forces or naturally puts different nations with different performing player you could probably predict how good a vehicle is.
Fortunately the recent added Abrams’ variations had an updated armor model and damage model where it made possible for this one specific vehicle shape the top tier environment on its favour in the hands of a good player. However being a good vehicle doesn’t mean being immune to being one-shot by another, player, in advantage. Unfortunately for a few, and fortunately for others War Thunder doesn’t gives a second chance for mistake, if you’re seen; it’s a problem, if you’re shot it’s terrible, if you’re destroyed; unlucky you, get better.
The legendary stories you hear about isn’t applied in the game, and this post is ultimately advocating for an overpowered vehicle as I could read from your writing. If the Abrams is a legendary machine, how it can’t be overpowered? On my end playing the legendary T-72 doesn’t feels very fun, but rather terrible disadvantage, it’s not fun. Segregating a nation, in this case Soviet Union won’t fix the issues you callout for the Abrams, Abrams is not a soviet vehicle.
If you have evidences, please share, it would be helpful since now you haven’t provided proofs of your position that the Abrams is in a disadvantageous position.