Are there widespread issues with the tank gun penetration color indicator?

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Just tested this out with 122mm APHE in practice - when aiming at panther glacis or tiger front armor, the crosshair seems to be grey for the most part and only turns green on very limited area, like mg ports.

The thing is that on firing you’ll usually pen and destroy with higher certainty on grey rather than the indicated green.

Does anyone else have this issue or does it exist in other tanks too?

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Is2 user here

Yes

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Probably have the same problem. However, I have never verified it.
Sometimes the gray color destroys the enemy in one hit, and sometimes the red color even destroys it.
Perhaps the actual ballistics and the crosshairs are sometimes out of alignment.
The color indicator is only a guide.

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Sometimes the indicator is picking up some miniscule little bit of terrain that is in the way, or maybe teh sight is seeing it due parallax and thus not giving a proper reading??

It can certainly be a pain :confused:

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Either way i wish it was gone 8(. And direction indicators

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Seems a bit unlikely explanation, seeing as i tried this in practice.

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I think it’s great. Playing tanks successfully should be also be possible for regular people and not just for total ww2 nerds who memorize armor weakspots and armor penetration tables or whatever.

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Might do “regular” people some good exercising their memory. Not sure it takes a “nerd” to remember 1 weakspot for the couple of tanks that need it. Especially when theres a hit cam

Thats just lazy

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The indicator turn green or yellow only if the bullet can penetrate the armor and the tank’s crew or component is hit by the bullet trajectory.

The color of the indicator does not take into account the explosion damage after the armor penetration.

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I will also add to this answer, that dispersion or, shell deviation, or shell fall over distance must be considered.

What the reticle shows, isn’t 100% where the shell will hit.

All the factors must be considered.

Op: as for grey reticle on is2,on/against panther can you make a report here : Gaijin.net // Issues

If possible do a small recording of the issue, and add all the details you feel it will help the devs fix your issue. (never forget. Clog file)

Thank you