Comments on: 8.8 Tiger II Armor Changes

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:17:32 +0000

Facehugging king of tier 8?

It’ll get penetrated everywhere, turret front, upper glacis, lower glacis, the sides etc.

By: Torx

Torx — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 06:46:51 +0000

Wasn’t there an article about whether the machine-gun ports were actually weakspots? afaik they weren’t weak at all when compared with the hull. But I can’t seem to find it.

By: Landsraad(NA)

Landsraad(NA) — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:39:59 +0000

Okay, I know people are upset about the whole LFP decrease, but I gotta be honest here: Any KT driver who can’t set up with a mostly covered or angled LFP in combat is doing it wrong. You get behind a low rise or bump or something, and if that doesn’t work just angle your hull about 30 degrees for better protection. Besides, it’s not all bad. The Cupola weak spot is all but gone, the MG weak point is gone, and, I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but the upper glacis even got a buff from 140 to 150. Add that to the driving changes, and all the pluses and minuses either cancel or edge out slightly in favor of positive.

By: Mr. Perfect

Mr. Perfect — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:19:57 +0000

The purple spaced armor is thinner.

By: MTWEmperor

MTWEmperor — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:41:03 +0000

I’m sorry but what? 200 pen guns used to go right through. Not so anymore because of the normalization buff.

By: BauBau (NA)

BauBau (NA) — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:07:10 +0000

Looks like both t9 JT and t8 JT88 get their frontal changed aswell. By changed I mean the UFP is slightly more angled (I determined that through visual comparison of screenshots taken on both servers). So if UFP is changed it’s safe to assume LFP armor was reduced to 100mm and the machine-gun weak-spot removed. Afterall JT88, JT and Tiger 2 share the same hull so change to 1 of them should happen to all of them.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:48:26 +0000

So we have new facehugging king of tier 8.
Also – LFP was easy thing anyway, now, with buffed depression you can at least hide it easily so I think that as long as you don’t lose your mind and charge like an idiots it’ll be fine.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:09:18 +0000

All that Ahnenerbe mumbo-jumbo is obviously good for *something*. :p

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:43:54 +0000

MG ball isn’t a weakspot but people will keep shooting there for eras before they notice that the model has been changed, depression has been buffed to 8 degrees which will give you little-to-no problems in hiding the LFP, terrain resistance has been buffed and the guns remained the same lethal ones, this tank is OP.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:31:25 +0000

How is it possible that the MG port isn’t a weak spot on this ugly tank? Nazi-science?