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[TijgernootTank]

Tier 8 of the week has become meaningless while ago as tanks are offered every other day .

[TungstenHitman]

Needs about 18-20 extra mm of pen buff on it's ammo at this point as I would feel it's become a little bit powercreeped by armor and one of this tanks strong points is it's standard APCR rail gun shell velocity which is pretty much gone if you can't pen even a lower plate and have to switch to HEAT... you then lose that shell speed and it's thus lose one of it's "special tricks" rendering the point of having it pretty pointless if not for that reliable lazer gun support ability from the back. It's this ineffective standard pen which stops me from playing it these days, like I said, it's just not enough nowadays even if you are hitting weak spots. Sure, you can still focus light tanks and papery things but maps design often makes it a case of just having to shoot weak spots on lumbering oafs plodding down corridors and even 250 pen is often not enough I had a few zero damage battles with it on maps like Abbey and Mountain Pass where I didn't do much wrong and shot at weak spots but they were showing orange at best and didn't pen it's not that accurate for hitting those reliably and the reload is slow too. I do like it a lot though, just needs a pen buff, don't forget, it's a really slow tank so it's not really going to be shooting much other than tanks frontally from ranged supporting positions so needs pen.   

[rimmer_the]

This is one of the tanks I love to see on the enemy team. It's  long reload and lowish pen ensure its not much of a threat to my t8 tanks. 

Edited by rimmer_the, 26 June 2019 - 12:40 PM.

[Lorensoth]

This tank is, another great example of power creep in this game. Once solid medium that had become literal obselete with time. Still, not saying its worst tank of game but simply, there is not much of a reason left to play this either and could definitely use some balance here and there.

I was about to give some personal advices/opinions to balance this thing, but noone reads here anyway, so why bother.

Just know that, its not a bad tank, gun still can be enjoyable vs same tier or below. But rest of tank is just nothing special and overally below average.

[rimmer_the]

Profesor_Baltazar, on 26 June 2019 - 09:26 AM, said:

Don't get me wrong, but I'm sick of those cry pussies, every tank is a bad tank. I'm average player, WN8 arround 800, but this tank is exceptional, you shoot EBR like nothing, gun accurate and can snapshot, gun depression 10, great money maker, I simply love this tank, but it's not easy to play (my rate under 50% wins in it) while I have over 60% wins in Type 54 prot. 1, but I don't like it.

 

While wrecking some EBR's is very statisfying, the point is that these marketing articles are half-truths ate best, and we like to balance them out a little with the other haf of the story. 

Thanks to FL, it still has a place, especially if you are training a crew for the tier 10 medium or so.

Edited by rimmer_the, 26 June 2019 - 02:30 PM.

[clickfingers]

its a good tank, i do better in it than the 40t, its good on a hill from some bushes, to pop out and hit hard, its hull is fragile, but if played like a hill warrior/semi td sniper, it works quite well.

  

[HadurHun]

You mean the overbuffed tier 7 to be one of the worst tier 8s ever made!

[Bordhaw]

Community, on 26 June 2019 - 05:00 AM, said:

The M4A1 Revalorisé

 

 

Think I saw one in Frontlines...once.