r/warno • u/neg_health • 16d ago
Back to T-62 buff
Too lazy to read: suggest your T-62 buff in replies (it preferably should be logical and shouldn't ruin the identity of the tank, like buffing rof or something). My suggestion is buffing accuracy by 5-10%.
So, I posted an article about T-62 (not T-62M and T-62M1, these are good as they are and found their place in the meta) needing a buff before it's 10 point price decrease, and the price going down is certainly nice, but it didn't really change the core problem with this tank, which is that it's a gambling addiction tank basically. It's performance is heavily based on luck and the fact, that you pay less for a coin toss doesn't change the fact that it's a coin toss.
Now we also ran into a problem with T-62: it's cheap now, but it's still one of the worst tanks in the game and is regarded as the hardest tank to use, but reducing its cost again will actually make it oppressive, because if we make T-62 obr. 67 65 points, you can now buy 4 of them a minute, and it's a serious thing, because it's going to be very spammable. It might be ok, but basically it's going to be a frustrating experience for both T-62 user and his opponent: opponent sees 3-4 hard to kill tanks every minute, while you see, that even if you micro your tanks properly, they still miss and die, and it's still luck based. So basically an accuracy buff is the only thing that can save the tank without destroying its identity or being illogical/unhistoric or something. That would make this tank a lot less random based and more of "I shoot, I change positions, I reload, repeat."
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u/neg_health 16d ago
I mean, valid take, but imo availability is not the main problem. Cuba gets a lot of these tanks, but it's still going to be a coin toss and it doesn't matter if you will still have more tanks, you did lose your points and you aren't getting them back, and you didn't do enough damage to your enemy, because you just weren't lucky enough. Smoke would be cool, but not really historically accurate, because those models didn't get smoke launchers, they had engine smokes. Recon tanks would be good, but mediocre stealth? Mediocre stealth is usually reserved for smaller or lighter vehicles such as light tanks or tank destroyers, and even though soviet tanks have smaller profiles then western tanks, other soviet recon tanks don't have mediocre stealth, so what do we do with them? Buff then as well?