blackeyes90, on 01 December 2019 - 03:41 AM, said:
As players we want an Explaination for this. What happend to the Chieftain ? When will you release it? Give us concrete answers please.
blackeyes90, on 30 November 2019 - 09:17 AM, said:
At least give us a timetable for Chieftain tank line ? They promised us Chieftain Mk.6 and teased multiple times but they never added to the live server. This is the biggest screw up in WG history. And thats saying something.
As far as I know, there have been 3 attempts to balance the tank since in its current state it is considered too strong and being freely available as a tech tree tank would 'break' TX (even more). WG want to have a full line leading up to the Mk6 and had trouble fitting it into the tech tree, and so they have tried to rework the armour and the shells were nerfed in a way not to be too strong, but that meant that the tank became too weak unless it was given realistic armour values in spots, which then made it too strong and so the plans have been shelved.
However, when I compare the Chieftain with the CW Chieftain (https://tanks.gg/compare/chieftain?t=t95fv4201), the former trades better gun stats for worse mobility, worse armour and worse VR... And yet the CW Chieftain is considered 'perfectly fine' even though its not. SOme people already consider it negatively impacting TX (and T8-9) gameplay, but since they are not yet available in such large numbers, its impact is ignored / considered negligable by WG. If WG would release the Mk6 in its current state as a TX tech tree tank, a significantly large® numbers would flood the game; Imagine 200k Chieftains vs the 10k* we have now...
*I know my numbers are off, but you get the point I am trying to make...