Hello, Im new here; and I know, that Im totally not the greatest player. Just trying to have fun and keep winning, in this game.
here, if anyone is interested, some boring history about me: in the first 4.000 batlles i was a typical 40%, just playing for fun, and learning a bit about how to play this game, ignoring hate messages I got after the battles, in which I usually didnt perform very well in. With the time, I got to play better, getting to the 50% mark. Now, I have a love/hate relationship with this game, being and getting better, and caring more and more about (how to) winning games, as you can see on the stats of some of my fewer, new tanks in which you can see the difference of my playstyle. E75 62%, T54 ltwt 65%, Superpershing 55%, etc. or just here:
https://www.blitzsta...u/HighExplos1ve
I love my T-34/85 RUDY (my most driven tank at 54%), but considering it got a bit powercreeped with the time, I recently send WG a ticket via their Customer support, about the RUDY, since it has issues in the current meta. Just wanted to share my ticket with you, so you could decide if my opinion on this tank is justified.
Dear WarGaming,
I can totally understand that this kind of is off-topic, but I would really appreciate it, if you could hear me out. The T-34/85 RUDY; the tier VII soviet medium tank, even back then, it had many issues in terms of penetration, since it had to deal with these hordes of armored heavy tanks and tank destroyers with beastly guns, which could easily take half or full of its hitpoints with one shot. Now, in the current meta, not much has changed. But with the introduction of the german superheavies, it lost its actuality and got powercreeped, being outdated.
To actually deal damage, it always has to switch to premium ammunition, which only has 194mm of penetration. Even with these numbers, its unable to pen heavies, or even some medium tanks frontally, or even sideways. Meeting tier 8, which is overflooded by IS tanks and many other different tanks like the Superpershing or T-54 mod.1, it cant effectively deal any damage, even using APCR. Even trying to pen the sides or rears of heavies, it struggles, just looking at the spaced sides of russian heavies. Now, with the introduction of the VK 100.01 (P), it got even worse.
The Armor of the T-34/85 RUDY isnt great either, being penned by everything even a tier lower. The stats-wise 75mm of armor in the front of the hull, are only on the upper plate, and even there, the drivers hatch, MG port and the lower plate have 45mm of armor. Getting to the turret, you can see that it is even worse, than the one on the Tier 6 T-34/85, since it has a really big, oversized commanders cupola, like on the STOCK turret of the tier 6, on an already not very strong turret, where you have no armor behind the 90mm of spaced armor in form of the gun mantlet.
The main question I have is: why does the RUDY have so many disadvantages? The tanks it has to compete with are in many ways stronger than it.
- The T-34-1 for example is only as half as big, while having a way stronger turret and a in many points stronger gun. Higher alpha, but lower DPM. but what does DPM bring you if you cant use it because of bad penetration? The T-34-1 has the penetration of a tier 8 russian medium, while even having more DPM than a T-54 mod. 1 for example. it has 175mm of pen on AP, and 235mm on APCR, why not implement it on the RUDY?
- Why does the tier VII T-43 have a way stronger turret and hull, while having only unsignificantly lower mobility? The RUDY has a ONLY 75mm frontal upper plate, but even this, has only 45mm of armor on the drivers hatch and MG port. Who gave it this underpowered hull armor? I wont even mention the sides and the rear, which have less armor than the Tier V T-34, and are almost twice as thin as the ones on the T-43. The armor didnt work that well on tier 6, so lets put it into many tier 8 battles? Why does the RUDY have a stock turret of a tier VI tank and a tier VI gun?
- The Type 62, kind of a chinese counterpart of the RUDY, has 250mm of penetration on premium ammuntion, not having issues penetrating tier 8 tanks, unlike the RUDY. Not to mention, it has way better mobility, being able to use its gun more effectively, getting to the sides and rears of heavies armoured tanks.Yes, it has worse armor, but who cares if you shoot at 45mm or at 30mm? Not to mention, that the RUDY is almost as twice as big, with a big cupola.
-I wont even mention the overpowered HELSING and DRACULA.
- Many tier VII mediums have better penetration, like the T20, LTTB, AMX 13 75 on APCR. But even many Tier 6 tanks have more penetration, including the VK 26.01, the Sherman Firefly, the ARL 44. The tier VI ARL 44 even has more AP penetration than the RUDY on APCR, while having good DPM and gun depression?
I hope you understand my worries, and dont just respond by ''thanks for the ticket, but we cant do anything'', because it really took some time for me and I really wish you could overthink on how to improve this tank and the current meta, because it really is in some point powercreeped.
A buff would fix the sítuation, like you did back then with the superpershing. More pen to keep updated on the level of the T-34-1, the upper front plate being overthought or just improved, a slightly smaller turret commanders cupola like on the tier VI t-34/85 or T-43. I think many would appreciate this, and not have an issue with nerfing the DPM a bit in exchange.
Greetings
HighExplos1ve
Edited by HighExplos1ve, 16 December 2018 - 09:39 AM.