Comments on: 6.3.2014

By: rosszpenz

rosszpenz — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:53:15 +0000

So let’s buff arty now with this or what?
I just can’t wait all those spamming noobs to start shooting houses instead of tanks! LOL

By: rosszpenz

rosszpenz — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:50:57 +0000

“- when “hiding” behind rubble from destroyed buildings, your silhouette will be visible normally”

Oh yes, X-ray vision for noobs!

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:16:46 +0000

Do you *really* want things that can more or less only go really fucking fast *in a straight line* along roads and have all the survivability of an eggshell? Because that reads mainly like Suicide Scout Special and good for little else to me.

Idiot pubbies in T-62A clones at least CAN be vaguely useful to their teams.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:11:16 +0000

Granted, the EBR probably keeps that speed rather better offroad than most of its peers thanks to those retractable auxiliary wheels. Given that the things are powered and turning even when raised, and more or less all-metal, the rotational inertia probably does funny things to handling characteristics however – or at least that’s what assorted commentaries I’ve read suspected.
And yeah, suspension mode changes? Not very likely.

Quick parsing of Le Wiki left me with the impression *most* relevant armoured cars OTOH promptly lose about half their topspeed when they leave roads or comparable hard level surfaces, so, yeah.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:05:15 +0000

Top speed and top speed. *Some* could be very fast, 80 to 100 km/h… on-road. Quick parsing of Le Wiki gives the impression that where listed *offroad* top speeds are something around half that.
And then you have the likes of BA-10 and T18 Boarhound that barely topped fifty on hard surfaces…

And given the terribad agility compared to tracks I strongly suspect those topspeeds, when not summarily murdered by uncooperative terrain, would mainly be useful for suicide scouting.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:54:58 +0000

They’re not talking about what you think they’re talking about.

By: exocet6951

exocet6951 — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:32:35 +0000

Do you really *NOT* want to drive something that goes really fucking fast and gives a bit of variety in gameplay?

Would you rather have more T-62A clones perhaps?

By: pablozfzw

pablozfzw — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:12:44 +0000

Yeah, well you laugh, but think about this:

T110E5 comes from behind a ridge, only turret sticking out, you put one shoot on his weak spot, machine gun on top of turret, machine gun turret got ripped of, and now T110E5 got no weak spots for you to shoot, and rip your tank apart :)

I wonder if other parts also will be subjected to ripping off, like this KV5 front turrets/cupolas, or even better French TD upper weak spots :P

By: Ascender

Ascender — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:51:15 +0000

That is a good thing though. What kind of cover would you get from arty if he can just blow the roof of the building you’re next to and damage you that way? You’d have to move back from the building to stop that from happening, but they he could just shoot you directly. I don’t mind larger and specific structures (say the lighthouse on the top of Cliff) causing damage though. It could end up like lelvolution.

By: Ascender

Ascender — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:48:18 +0000

I am not sure if we want halftracks. It will essentially end up being a direct-fire SPG with a not too amazing gun selection while being EXTREMELY fragile. Armored cars could more function in the way the T-50-2 worked, just giong in extremely fast and generally running about the place. My main worry in the sense of armored cars is that well… they’ve got kinda poor armor, and they’re not exactly small (just compare a Luchs to a Puma). Their top speeds should be something completely out of this (currently known WoT-) world. I think viewing it on those grounds it makes it more understandable why WG is reluctant, though that said they could actually fulfill a scouting role that the current LT’s cannot (i.e. current LTs aren’t especially fast while being very flimsy and fragile meaning active scouting is barely seen these days outside of CWs).